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8 produkter
Driven by Fear
Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence
Inbunden, 2015
1451 kr
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From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, …
Mending Bodies, Saving Souls
A History of Hospitals
Inbunden, 1999
2045 kr
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By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to …
Mending Bodies, Saving Souls
A History of Hospitals
E-bok, 1999
1114 kr
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By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to …
Driven by Fear
Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence
Häftad, 2015
397 kr
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From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, …
Driven by Fear
Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence
E-bok, 2015
487 kr
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From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco''s Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, …
Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown
Inbunden, 2012
661 kr
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When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city's Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse's history of an epidemic is the first to …
New Medical Challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2005
2318 kr
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New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon.Commercial …
