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DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Av Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee
Häftad, 2004
370 kr
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The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein. In highlighting DNA as it appears in soap operas, comic books, advertising, and other expressions of mass …
Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine
Häftad, 2005
333 kr
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In this expanded edition, an accomplished physician and teacher of medicine discusses the importance of being a caring doctor, especially now that the focus of medicine is increasingly on technological innovation and health care costs.With wisdom and compassion, Dr. Jerome Lowenstein tells stories …
Deadly Dust
Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health
Av David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz
Häftad, 2006
397 kr
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During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly …
White Coat, Clenched Fist
The Political Education of an American Physician
Häftad, 2006
344 kr
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In the sixties, Fitzhugh Mullan was an activist in the civil rights struggle. While in medical school, Mullan was shocked by gaps in what the students learned, and the lack of humanity in the classroom. Later, Dr. Mullan was outraged at the conditions he discovered when he began to practice. He …
Launching Global Health
The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation
Inbunden, 2010
1094 kr
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From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. philanthropies have played a leading role in the evolution of international health. Launching Global Health examines one of the earliest of these initiatives abroad, the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health …
Formative Years
Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
Av Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel
Häftad, 2004
459 kr
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Much has changed in the lives of children, and in the health care provided to them, over the past century. Formative Years explores how children's lives have become increasingly medicalized, traces the emergence of the fields of pediatrics and child health, and offers fascinating case studies of …
Ordinary Life
A Memoir of Illness
Häftad, 2007
311 kr
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Praise for Ordinary Life:“It reads like a novel, but Kathy Conway’s journal of three cancers is the smartest kind of self-help: it gives us permission to be wise or whiney, strong or self-indulgent, whatever it takes to get through the dark nights of chemo and dread.”—Robert Lipsyte, columnist, New …
Universal Coverage
The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance
Av Rick Mayes
Häftad, 2005
431 kr
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Universal health coverage has become the Mount Everest of public policy in the United States: the most daunting challenge on the political landscape. But, despite numerous attempts, all efforts to achieve universal health care have failed. In Universal Coverage, Rick Mayes examines the peculiar and …
Inside/Outside
A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer
Inbunden, 2006
595 kr
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To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual perspective as physician …
Student Bodies
The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine
Inbunden, 2007
1094 kr
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Student Bodies is the first book to link developments in college health with larger trends in American cultural and medical history. This comprehensive and engrossing study describes the origins and development of health services at institutions of higher education in the United States from the …
