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Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
The Remedy
Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.
In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB—often called...
Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines...
The World's Deadliest Epidemics
101 Amazing Facts
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
For as long as humans have lived on this earth, nature has done its very best to rid the planet of us. This book not only looks back at a number of times in recorded history where the future of our very existence was put in jeopardy, but also asks whether we could survive a resurgence of these pandemics…...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Most people accessing mental health and addiction services have experienced trauma. For those working in community services, treatment agencies and hospitals, providing "trauma-informed care" requires an understanding of the effects of trauma, and of how to create programs, spaces and policies...
by Jenny Trinitapoli, Alexander Weinreb
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.
Focusing on...
Silent Victories
The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing...
Dream New Dreams
Reimagining My Life After Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer.
"Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife*.* "Jai...
Different Strokes
An Intimate Memoir for Stroke Survivors, Families, and Care Givers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Strokes are the third-leading cause of death in America, and for the lucky’ stroke victims who don’t die, about half will spend the rest of their lives trying to recover.” Roughly 700,000 American suffer a stroke each year and around 140,000 of them are fatal. Different Strokes is an in-depth...
by Patricia Manly
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
If you were visited by a "man" from the other side warning you to change your ways, would you deny him? That is exactly what my dad, ex-power lifter George Manly faced and the decision he made changed his life forever."My Dad, Our Alzheimer’s” is a memoir about an angry man who was humbled...
by Pat Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
This a story of a nurse going from the care giver to the patient. Six weeks in hospital six months of recovery and subsequently being able to Ride a bike on the Erie Canal 68 miles along with my surgeon and raise over ten thousand dollars for the Childrens hospital. When my doctor said I was to old...
by Meaghan Calcari Campbell, LaurieHP, RobinBW
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Living with breast cancer can be absurd. Often, though, the absurdities are kept behind the curtain and shared only with other women living in Cancerland—the tactless comment from a co-worker about how attractive we used to be when we still had hair, breast implants that explode or prostheses that...
by Jon Kyle Ezell
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
This is my outlandish story about nearly dying of a heart attack and then deciding to become a marathon runner. It doesn't matter how old you are or what your health status is, you (or a friend, or loved one) can learn to train your mind to make your body physically magnificent after a heart event. You MUST find hope or you might as well be dead. So choose to be outlandish. Save your life!