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Value of Health
A History of the Pan American Health Organization
Av Marcos Cueto
Häftad, 2007
344 kr
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A multilayered analytical study that situates the Pan American Health Organization in a complex and shifting historical context and examines the internal dynamics of the organization in a probing critical fashion.Marcos Cueto, a widely published medical historian, presents an appealing and …
Public Health and the Risk Factor
A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution
Häftad, 2008
581 kr
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A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public health and preventive medicine have been the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles as …
Medicine's Moving Pictures
Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
Av Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
452 kr
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Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve …
Death, Modernity, and the Body
Sweden 1870-1940
Av Eva Åhrén
Inbunden, 2009
541 kr
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A provocative study that explores medical, social, cultural, and aesthetic customs and practices of treating the dead body in Sweden in an era of modernization.Originally published in Swedish in 2002, Death, Modernity, and the Body explores the impact of modernization on customs and practices of …
Ludwik Hirszfeld
The Story of One Life
Av Marta A. Balinska, William H. Schneider
Inbunden, 2010
603 kr
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An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health.Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, discovered the inheritance and …
Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor
London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800
Av Kevin P. Siena, Kevin Siena
Häftad, 2010
452 kr
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A re-examination of the role of charity and treating venereal disease in public hospitals in early-modern London.This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the …
Marriage of Convenience
Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico
Häftad, 2012
541 kr
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Offers a nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and Mexico's Departamento de Salubridad Pública as they jointly promoted public health through campaigns against yellow fever and hookworm disease, organized cooperative rural health …
Medicine and the Workhouse
Av Jonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz
Inbunden, 2013
1354 kr
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This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. …
Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville
Inbunden, 2013
1287 kr
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This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague.Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century …
Shifting Boundaries of Public Health
Europe in the Twentieth Century
Av Susan Gross Solomon, Lion Murard m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
411 kr
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New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe.European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impulses throughout the twentieth century. In the 1920s, international agencies were established with great fanfare and postwar optimism to serve as the …
Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:
New Science in an Old Country
Häftad, 2013
478 kr
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This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.In the first half of the twentieth century, reformers attempted to use the knowledge and practices of the laboratory sciences to …
Politics of Vaccination
Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874
Häftad, 2013
371 kr
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A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.The introduction of public vaccination was among the greatest of public health triumphs. By the end of the nineteenth century, …
Origins of Organ Transplantation
Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930
Häftad, 2013
452 kr
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A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.This book investigates a crucial -- but forgotten -- episode in the history of medicine. In it, Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the earliest clinical and experimental organ transplant …
Ludwik Hirszfeld
The Story of One Life
Av Marta A. Balinska, William H. Schneider
Häftad, 2013
607 kr
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An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health.Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, discovered the inheritance and …
John W. Thompson
Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Häftad, 2013
500 kr
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Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials.John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi …
International Relations in Psychiatry
Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II
Av Volker Roelcke, Paul J Weindling m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
371 kr
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International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the transfer of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources and the migration of psychiatrists between Britain, the United …
Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary
Typhus and Tunisia
Av Kim Pelis
Häftad, 2013
478 kr
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Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of scienceand medicine to society and culture in the first third of the …
Neurological Patient in History
Av L. Stephen Jacyna, Stephen Casper m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
367 kr
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Essays from noted contributors trace the evolution of the neurological patient's role, treatment, and place in the history of medicine.Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their …
Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century
Av David Cantor, Edmund Ramsden
Inbunden, 2014
1758 kr
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now …
Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World
Häftad, 2014
310 kr
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An examination of the complex interrelationship between charity birth control clinics and the commercial marketplace in the United States through the 1970s.The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World is the first book to chart the origins and evolution of the charity birth control clinic …
Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968
Av Dennis A Dennis A. Doyle PhD
Inbunden, 2016
1354 kr
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Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era.Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities …
Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas
Av María-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Ryan A. Davis
Inbunden, 2014
1354 kr
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Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to thepandemic.Situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of …
Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
A History of a Medical Treatment
Av Sarah B.M. Webber Rodriguez
Inbunden, 2014
1341 kr
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An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision and clitoridectomy tells us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality.From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, …
Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition
A New Perspective
Inbunden, 2014
1354 kr
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Examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases to chronic diseases as the predominant causes of death, presenting a new theory on how chronic diseases have developed.Since the eighteenth century, chronic diseases have superseded acute infectious diseases …
Save the Babies
American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929
Häftad, 2015
411 kr
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A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.Twenty-five years after its 1990 publication, Richard A. Meckel's Save the Babies remains widely acknowledged as the single most …
Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
Häftad, 2015
411 kr
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The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had …
Lobotomy Letters
The Making of American Psychosurgery
Av Mical Raz
Häftad, 2015
344 kr
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Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, The Lobotomy Letters gives an account of the widespread acceptance of this controversial procedure.The rise and widespread …
Intrusive Interventions
Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914
Inbunden, 2015
1354 kr
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Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.Intrusive Interventions is a history and critical study of public health in the Victorian and Edwardian period. …
Antivaccine Heresy
Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
Inbunden, 2015
1341 kr
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Explores the history of vaccine development and the rise of antivaccination societies in late-nineteenth-century America.Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. …
Healthy Boundaries
Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815-1872
Inbunden, 2016
1341 kr
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Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property, liability, and community.This book argues that the legacies of nineteenth-century public health in England and Wales were not just better health …
