Civilization And Disease

Author : Henry E. Sigerist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 150172343X

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Civilization and Disease by Henry E. Sigerist Pdf

Originally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist delivered at Cornell University in 1940. Now back in print, the book is a wide-ranging account of the importance of social factors on health and illness and the impact that disease has had on societies throughout human history. Despite considerable advances in both medicine and historiography, Civilization and Disease remains a landmark work in the history of medicine and a fascinating look at, first, civilization as a factor in the genesis and spread of disease, and second, the effects of disease on such aspects of civilization as economics, social life, law, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts. In a new foreword written for this edition, Elizabeth Fee outlines Sigerist's life, works, and legacy as a historian, a teacher, and an advocate for universal health care, hailing Civilization and Disease as "an excellent introduction to Sigerist's work."

Author : Adrienne Rose Bitar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813589664

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Diet and the Disease of Civilization by Adrienne Rose Bitar Pdf

Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it’s not calories—but concepts—that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the “Fall of Man” as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. Bitar reads each diet—the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet—as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. Diet and the Disease of Civilization unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world.

Author : Stanton Coit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520348431

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Is Civilization a Disease? by Stanton Coit Pdf

The Barbara Weinstock Lectures, 5

Author : Henry Ernest Sigerist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OCLC:855708455

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Civilization and Disease by Henry Ernest Sigerist Pdf

Author : Henry Ernest Sigerist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883037731

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Civilization and Disease by Henry Ernest Sigerist Pdf

Author : François Delaporte,Arthur Goldhammer
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 026254055X

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Disease and Civilization by François Delaporte,Arthur Goldhammer Pdf

Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed the lives of 18,000 people in Paris alone, was a watershed in the history of medicine: In France, it shook the complacency of a medical establishment that thought it had the means to prevent any onslaught and led to a revolution in the concept of public health.Francois Delaporte teaches at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.

Author : Brian Inglis
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Environmentally induced diseases
ISBN : UOM:39015043242935

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The Diseases of Civilization by Brian Inglis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415173286

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Civilization and Disease by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher : David De Angelis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9791220241984

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Cancer: disease of civilization? by Vilhjalmur Stefansson Pdf

Vilhjalmur Stefansson has had the extraordinary privilege and the rare merit to know intimately certain segments of the world which will always be strange to most of us. He has had the alertness to note details, to make correlations which would have escaped others. He has been unhampered by professional or even by lay prejudices. And he has a gift for expressing the ideas which his observations have evoked. The story which he presents in this book is a fascinating one. Here is the sort of thing we call basic research, just as much so as if it were being conducted in the latest of laboratories. Here are the data from a series of experiments which Nature has performed for us—in the Arctic northland, in the tropic forests of Gabon, and in the temperate valley of Hunzaland. She has varied a series of environmental factors yet come up with a like result in the three places, and a result which she has produced, so far as we know, only in those three special combinations of environments, not in any other of her myriads of combinations elsewhere. What have these three in common, that they produce this result, so important to us? Nature will not repeat those experiments. And we will not have another Stefansson to read the data and present them to us. I hope, therefore, that what he has to say will be read carefully and pondered deeply.

Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134637188

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Health, Civilization and the State by Dorothy Porter Pdf

This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.

Author : Samuel Milham MD MPH
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938908194

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Dirty Electricity by Samuel Milham MD MPH Pdf

When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandoras Box of unimaginable illness and death. Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and human disease. Milham takes readers through his early years and education, following the twisting path that led to his discovery that most of the twentieth century diseases of civilization, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and suicide, are caused by electromagnetic field exposure. In the second edition, he explains how electrical exposure does its damage, and how electricity is causing our current epidemics of asthma, diabetes and obesity. Dr. Milham warns that because of the recent proliferation of radio frequency radiation from cell phones and towers, terrestrial antennas, Wi-Fi and Wi-max systems, broadband internet over power lines, and personal electronic equipment, we may be facing a looming epidemic of morbidity and mortality. In Dirty Electricity, he reveals the steps we must take, personally and as a society, to coexist with this marvelous but dangerous technology.

Author : Mark Nathan Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300050232

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Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen Pdf

Civilized nations popularly assume that "primitive" societies are poor, ill, and malnourished and that progress through civilization automatically implies improved health. In this provocative new book, Mark Nathan Cohen challenges this belief. Using evidence from epidemiology, anthropology, and archaeology, Cohen provides fascinating evidence about the actual effects of civilization on health, suggesting that some aspects of civilization create as many health problems as they prevent or cure. " This book] is certain to become a classic-a prominent and respected source on this subject for years into the future. . . . If you want to read something that will make you think, reflect and reconsider, Cohen's Health and the Rise of Civilization is for you."-S. Boyd Eaton, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A major accomplishment. Cohen is a broad and original thinker who states his views in direct and accessible prose. . . . This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in disease, civilization, and the human condition."-David Courtwright, Journal of the History of Medicine "Deserves to be read by anthropologists concerned with health, medical personnel responsible for communities, and any medical anthropologists whose minds are not too case-hardened. Indeed, it could provide great profit and entertainment to the general reader."-George T. Nurse, Current Anthropology "Cohen has done his homework extraordinarily well, and the coverage of the biomedical, nutritional, demographic, and ethnographic literature about foragers and low energy agriculturists is excellent. The subject of culture and health is near the core of a lot of areas of archaeology and ethnology as well as demography, development economics, and so on. The book deserves a wide readership and a central place in our professional libraries. As a scholarly summary it is without parallel."-Henry Harpending, American Ethnologist

Author : Henry E. Sigerist
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501723452

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Civilization and Disease by Henry E. Sigerist Pdf

"Originally published in 1943, now with a new foreword."

Author : Jennie Rose Joe,Robert S. Young
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 3110134748

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Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization by Jennie Rose Joe,Robert S. Young Pdf

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Author : Stanton 1857-1944 Coit
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372711007

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IS CIVILIZATION A DISEASE by Stanton 1857-1944 Coit Pdf

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