Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History – serie
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9 produkter
History of Multiple Sclerosis
Inbunden, 2008
735 kr
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While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively rare condition in Europe and the United States. It was only in the late 1860s that MS came to be generally recognized as a distinct disease apart from other …
History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World
Inbunden, 2009
735 kr
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A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World offers readers answers to specific questions, as well as the challenge of a narrative that will stimulate their curiosity and encourage them to ask questions about the theory, practice, and assumptions of modern medicine.This work provides a …
History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World
E-bok, 2009
803 kr
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A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World offers readers answers to specific questions, as well as the challenge of a narrative that will stimulate their curiosity and encourage them to ask questions about the theory, practice, and assumptions of modern medicine. This work provides a …
History of the Birth Control Movement in America
E-bok, 2011
707 kr
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This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare. A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the …
Quack Medicine
A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
Inbunden, 2013
714 kr
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This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption.Throughout the 20th century, …
Quack Medicine
A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
E-bok, 2013
803 kr
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This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, …
From Snake Oil to Medicine
Pioneering Public Health
Av R. Alton Lee
E-bok, 2007
803 kr
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Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food and the common towel would have caused thousands of deaths in the United States. Crumbine and his associates paved the way to better treatment of tuberculosis. This well-written account leads …
History of the Birth Control Movement in America
E-bok, 2011
707 kr
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This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare. A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the …
Quack Medicine
A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
E-bok, 2013
803 kr
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This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, …
