Medical History category: 1391 books
Why Millions Died
Before the War on Infectious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Why Millions Died reviews the painfully slow development of research by isolated investigators who believed that diseases could be caused by infectious organisms. The brutally contentious and vivid arguments that raged between the proponents of the germ theory of disease and those who condemned it...
Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
Race Matters in Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and scientifically grounded system. Drawing on a lifetime of...
New Method of Identifying Family Related Skulls
Forensic Medicine, Anthropology, Epigenetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
If DNA cannot be isolated, don't give up the identification! The author has used for the same purpose methods ranging from physical anthropology to forensic medicine and especially a recent method of comparison of epigenetic traits, which proved to be very useful for the identification of family related...
Accommodating the Chinese
The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2005
This in-depth comparative study demonstrates that the hospital established in China - its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation - differed from its counterpart at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result...
by Patricia A. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
As the country sought healing and peace after the Civil War, Wisconsin citizens took up Pres. Abraham Lincoln�s challenge �to care for him who shall have borne the battle.� Their efforts paved the way for the establishment in Milwaukee of one of the original three branches of the National Asylum...
The Challenge to Change
Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not successful....
Beyond the Box
B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2009
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box...
The Religion of Chiropractic
Populist Healing from the American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic's colorful founders, D. D. Palmer and his son,...
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Transnational Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in...
by DaNita Naimoli, Diane Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Jack and Eldora Vetter began Vetter Health Services (VHS) in 1975 with the belief that elderly people deserve dignity in life. Forty years later, what began as the couple's personal mission has grown to include more than 30 award-winning senior-care facilities home to 2,200 residents and patients...
by Heather Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the “lost circulations” of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
by Valeria Finucci
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.
by J. Gregory Pirmann, Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For nearly 80 years, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was a reminder of how society viewed and treated people with intellectual disabilities. Over its existence, Pennhurst was home to more than 10,600 people. Many spent decades there, working to keep the institution running by performing various...
Pompéi, nature, sciences et techniques (Paris - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Hors des sentiers battus, l'exposition Pompéi, nature, sciences et techniques, présentée à Paris au palais de la Découverte du 3 avril au 22 juillet 2001, donnait à voir un matériel inattendu: les objets d'art étaient conviés à titre de témoins et comme illustrations d'un propos...
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