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by J Thomas Hindmarsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5th, 1821 on the island of St Helena from complications of stomach cancer proven by autopsy. However, when analyses of trace elements on single strands of hair became available in the 1960s, it was found that some samples of his hair contained increased levels of arsenic...
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health
Issues and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly shaped the philosophical...
The Death and Life of the Self
Post-Wittgensteinian Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
What is a self? What is the relation between phenomenal consciousness and the self? What are we talking about when we speak of conscious experience, the self, an inner mental world? In order to answer these questions the author reconsiders the «turn to the self» in contemporary philosophy of mind....
Diagnostic Criteria of Syphilis, Yaws and Treponarid (Treponematoses) and of Some Other Diseases in Dry Bones
For Use in Osteo-Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This is the first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the expansion of Homo sapiens between East Africa and Australia before 30,000 years ago. With contributions from leading experts that take into account the latest archaeological...
Sanidad internacional y transferencia de conocimiento científico
Europa, 1900-1975
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Este volumen es fruto de un proyecto de investigación del grupo Sanhisoc, dedicado a analizar el papel de los organismos internacionales y las redes de expertos en la transferencia de conocimiento en salud pública en el contexto europeo. Un asunto relevante en el contexto histórico de aparición...
by Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This is Margaret Higgins Sanger's 1922 work, "The Pivot of Civilization". Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879 - 1966) was an American sex educator, activist, nurse, and writer. She is responsible for popularising the term "birth control", as well as opening the first birth control clinic in America. She...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book provides a comprehensive history of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) of the U.S. Army medical department, with a record of the first 40 years of this important institution. The little-known manuscript,...
Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation...
by Thomas Neville Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After graduating in 1886, he founded, four years before John Dewey’s Chicago “laboratory school,” a progressive...
Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II's Spain
Shared Interests, Competing Authorities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Bridging the gap between histories of medicine and political/institutional histories of the early modern crown, this book explores the relationship between one of the most highly bureaucratic regimes in early modern Europe, Spain, and crown interest in and regulation of medical practices. Complementing...
Medical Licensing and Discipline in America
A History of the Federation of State Medical Boards
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure. David A. Johnson and Humayun J. Chaudhry provide an organizational history of the Federation of State Medical...
Weill Cornell Medicine
A History of Cornell's Medical School
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Weill Cornell Medicine is a story of continuity and transformation. Throughout its colorful history, Cornell’s medical school has been a leader in education, patient care, and research—from its founding as Cornell University Medical College in 1898, to its renaming as Weill Cornell Medical College...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Golden Hour standard is used in emergency medicine and trauma care and states a person must receive definitive care within one hour to ensure optimal outcomes. The medical community accepted...