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Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Av Alan Bewell, Sander L. Gilman
Häftad, 2004
523 kr
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Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered …
Lazarus Case
Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care
Häftad, 2007
344 kr
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In this new, startlingly original book, John D. Lantos weaves a compelling story that captures the dilemmas of modern medical practice. The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care begins with a fictional malpractice case-an amalgam of typical cases in which Lantos appeared as …
History of Suicide
Voluntary Death in Western Culture
Häftad, 2001
302 kr
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In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values-attitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was …
Lazarus Case
Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care
Inbunden, 2002
302 kr
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In this new, startlingly original book, John D. Lantos weaves a compelling story that captures the dilemmas of modern medical practice. The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care begins with a fictional malpractice case-an amalgam of typical cases in which Lantos appeared as …
Diagnosing Literary Genius
A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930
Inbunden, 2002
600 kr
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The vital place of literature and the figure of the writer in Russian society and history have been extensively studied, but their role in the evolution of psychiatry is less well known. In Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930, Irina Sirotkina explores …
