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Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day.

• illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE European Background and Indian Counterpart to Virginia Medicine CHAPTER TWO Disease and The Critical Years At Jamestown CHAPTER THREE Prevalent Ills and Common Treatments CHAPTER FOUR Education, Women, Churchmen, and The Law CHAPTER FIVE Conclusion

Die Studie beleuchtet in ihrer Analyse die Geschehnisse an der einstigen polnischen Anstalt Dziekanka, die ab 1939 mit der Einnahme durch die deutsche Wehrmacht in Tiegenhof umbenannt und zunehmend zu einer Tötungsanstalt umfunktioniert wurde. Auf Grundlage von Zeugenaussagen und Strafermittlungsakten...

A Rare Find is the heartwarming and true story of Ethel Kemp, an English emigrant whose vigilant determination to overcome endless trials lead her to successfully serve the people of Canada’s prairie for 6 decades. Despite her battle through years of family health problems, the Great War, the flu epidemic,...

The effects of the Black Death had not yet subsided, and the graves of millions of its victims were scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany, which took possession of the minds of men, and, in spite of the divinity of our nature, hurried away body and soul into the magic circle of...

This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array of contradictory attitudes towards meat and human health. They show how meat came to be regarded as a central part of a modern healthy diet and trace critiques of meat-eating and the meat industry.

**A lively, moving novel that vividly recreates the 1880s: the harsh lives; the attitudes to madness and to drunkenness; and the strength of friendship and love.**After an accident at four years old, Libby Budd has difficulty speaking. Her devoted father refuses to see there's a problem - even when...

In this book, William R. Uttal continues his analysis and critique of theories of mind. This book considers theories that are based on macroneural responses (such as those obtained from fMRI) that represent the averaged or cumulative responses of many neurons. The analysis is carried out with special...

7 "The End of the World has Come": Pudong Camp (1943-1945) Sonia Grypma Explores how two years of increasing privation and danger in a condemned tobacco warehouse in Pudong with 1200 other internees confined Betty Gale’s personal sense of mission to ever-constricting social...

By examining the early outbreaks in San Francisco, Cochrane unfolds the "creation" of AIDS in one geographic location and then traces how and why major claims about the transmission of HIV were made, extrapolated and then disseminated to the rest of the world - all important factors in understanding this disease.

In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

The author argues that psychiatric services in Malaysia retain many of the premises of colonial psychiatry, while little influenced by more recent concepts such as service-user empowerment. Also present in Malaysian health services are features unique to this region (such as the continuing popularity of traditional healing practices) which are not congruent with the colonial premises.

RAND researchers supported a high-level Israeli government team tasked with improving long-term socioeconomic strategy for the state. This report highlights selected inputs made to the government team to summarize the essential mechanics and roles for bringing a strategic perspective to policy consideration....

This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the ’ceremony of childbirth’, the popular ritual...