Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease – serie
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PTSD
A Short History
Häftad, 2018
382 kr
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A comprehensive history of PTSD.Post-traumatic stress disorder—and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier’s heart, railroad spine, and shell shock—was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic impacts of train crashes, wars, and sexual …
Death in a Small Package
A Short History of Anthrax
Inbunden, 2010
561 kr
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A disease of soil, animals, and people, anthrax has threatened lives for at least two thousand years. Farmers have long recognized its lasting virulence, but in our time, anthrax has been associated with terrorism and warfare. What accounts for this frightening transformation? Death in a Small …
Mania
A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
Av David Healy
Häftad, 2011
363 kr
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This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time. Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania-and the term maniac-in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, renowned psychiatrist David Healy examines …
Anxiety
A Short History
Häftad, 2013
379 kr
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More people today report feeling anxious than ever before-even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an anxiety condition at some point in their lives. …
Aging Bones
A Short History of Osteoporosis
Häftad, 2014
340 kr
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In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of …
Mania
A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
Av David Healy
Inbunden, 2008
363 kr
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This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time. Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania-and the term maniac-in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, renowned psychiatrist David Healy examines …
Making of a Tropical Disease
A Short History of Malaria
Inbunden, 2008
363 kr
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Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people-and kills one to three million-each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria has not always been concentrated in tropical areas. How did other regions …
Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant
A Short History of Failing Kidneys
Inbunden, 2008
317 kr
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Small and bean shaped, the kidneys are sophisticated organs that filter waste from the blood. A number of diseases and disorders-including diabetes and hypertension-can harm the kidneys and cause them to fail. Historian and nephrologist Steven J. Peitzman traces the medical history of kidney …
Making of a Tropical Disease
A Short History of Malaria
Häftad, 2011
275 kr
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Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people-and kills one to three million-each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria has not always been concentrated in tropical areas. How did other regions …
PKU Paradox
A Short History of a Genetic Disease
Av Diane B. Paul, Jeffrey P. Brosco
Häftad, 2014
282 kr
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In a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and …
More Than Hot
A Short History of Fever
Häftad, 2014
262 kr
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Christopher Hamlin's magisterial work engages a common experience-fever-in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of …
Intolerant Bodies
A Short History of Autoimmunity
Av Warwick Anderson, Ian R. Mackay
Häftad, 2015
262 kr
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Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and recurrence. Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid …
Making of a Tropical Disease
A Short History of Malaria
Häftad, 2021
456 kr
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A global history of malaria that traces the natural and social forces that have shaped its spread and made it deadly, while limiting efforts to eliminate it.Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people—and kills nearly a half a million—each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, …
