Medical History category: 1391 books
by Stephen Porter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert...
The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.
Gordon’s...
by Jennifer L. Cerully, Mustafa Oguz, Heather Krull
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
In this report, the authors use the Wounded Warrior Project’s 2013 survey of its members (alumni) to understand the physical, mental, and economic challenges that Wounded Warriors face. The researchers find that at least half of alumni reported dealing with mental health conditions such as depression...
Deceit and Denial
The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players,...
Global Health in Africa
Historical Perspectives on Disease Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts,...
by Andrew T. Price-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.
Gender before Birth
Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an �act of violence against women� and �unethical.� At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor...
Ignite!
Getting Your Community Coalition Fired up for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Ph.D., captured the attention of academics and practitioners everywhere with her landmark textbook, Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health, which provided a comprehensive approach to coalitions. Ignite! Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change is a more...
Is It Safe?
BPA and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
We are all just a little bit plastic. Traces of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used in plastics production, are widely detected in our bodies and environment. Is this chemical, and its presence in the human body, safe? What is meant by safety? Who defines it, and according to what information? Is...
Paris-médical
Assistance et enseignement
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Extrait : "Le Conseil supérieur de l'instruction publique, présidé par le Ministre, donne son avis sur les programmes, méthodes d'enseignement, modes d'examens, règlements administratifs et disciplinaires relatifs aux écoles publiques, le tarif des droits d'inscription d'examen et de diplôme à...
by Milner J. Fothergill, Henry S. William, T.D. Crothers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
During the last century, there are differences of opinion as to the use of alcohol; there are comparatively none as to the abuse of it. Leaving then, for the present, the question of the use of alcohol in disease, its effect upon the body temperature, and its position as a food, we may profitably...
Lovie
The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was...
Metabolic Living
Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by...
America's Forgotten Pandemic
The Influenza of 1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid...