Knowledge In The Time Of Cholera

Author : Owen Whooley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226017778

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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera by Owen Whooley Pdf

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later. These cholera outbreaks raised fundamental questions about medical knowledge and its legitimacy, giving fuel to alternative medical sects that used the confusion of the epidemic to challenge both medical orthodoxy and the authority of the still-new American Medical Association. In Knowledge in the Time of Cholera, Owen Whooley tells us the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners and bringing to life the battle to control public understanding of disease, professional power, and democratic governance in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Owen Whooley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226017464

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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera by Owen Whooley Pdf

In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the US created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire killing thousands. These cholera outbreaks raised questions about medical knowledge and its legitimacy, giving fuel to alternative medical sects that used the confusion of the epidemic to challenge both medical orthodoxy and the authority of the American Medical Association. Here, Whooley tells us the story of those dark days, centring his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593310854

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Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9782808002066

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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Love in the Time of Cholera with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, a classic romance novel which centres on the characters of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, whose youthful romance determines the course of the rest of their lives. This masterfully constructed novel constantly alternates between three different timelines while also meditating on the different ways love can manifest itself, the interplay between fact and fiction and the realities of Colombian society in the early 20th century. Gabriel García Márquez was one of the best-known and most-loved Latin American writers of the 20th century, with a career spanning over 50 years. He wrote a series of influential novels, short stories and novellas, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and The General in His Labyrinth, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Find out everything you need to know about Love in the Time of Cholera in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: •A complete plot summary •Character studies •Key themes and symbols •Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Owen Whooley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226616414

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On the Heels of Ignorance by Owen Whooley Pdf

Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley’s sweeping new book tells us, the history of American psychiatry is really a record of ignorance. On the Heels of Ignorance begins with psychiatry’s formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley’s book is no antipsychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. On the Heels of Ignorance draws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.

Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1594489254

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The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson Pdf

"It is the summer of 1854. Cholera has seized London with unprecedented intensity. A metropolis of more than 2 million people, London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure necessary to support its dense population - garbage removal, clean water, sewers - the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease that no one knows how to cure." "As their neighbors begin dying, two men are spurred to action: the Reverend Henry Whitehead, whose faith in a benevolent God is shaken by the seemingly random nature of the victims, and Dr. John Snow, whose ideas about contagion have been dismissed by the scientific community, but who is convinced that he knows how the disease is being transmitted. The Ghost Map chronicles the outbreak's spread and the desperate efforts to put an end to the epidemic - and solve the most pressing medical riddle of the age."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles L. Briggs,Clara Mantini-Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520230316

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Stories in the Time of Cholera by Charles L. Briggs,Clara Mantini-Briggs Pdf

Chronicles the 1992-1993 cholera epidemic in Venezuela.

Author : Myron Echenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139498968

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Africa in the Time of Cholera by Myron Echenberg Pdf

This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.

Author : Alexander Knox (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Cholera
ISBN : NLS:V000304097

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An Enquiry Into the Actual State of Our Knowledge of Cholera by Alexander Knox (M.D.) Pdf

Author : L. Duffy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137297549

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Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge by L. Duffy Pdf

This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

Author : John Conolly,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Cholera
ISBN : BL:A0019881499

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The Physician: I. The Cholera by John Conolly,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Charles L. Briggs,Clara Mantini-Briggs
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374398

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Tell Me Why My Children Died by Charles L. Briggs,Clara Mantini-Briggs Pdf

Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers, and epidemiologists; detail how journalists first created a smoke screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chávez government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions; and narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. The book provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are wedded at the hip with health inequities. By recounting residents' quest to learn why their children died and documenting their creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up new ways to address some of global health's most intractable problems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CHAMBERS ENCYCLOPAEDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin Lankester
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356950523

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Cholera by Edwin Lankester Pdf

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Author : Donald Fithian Stevens
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826360564

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Mexico in the Time of Cholera by Donald Fithian Stevens Pdf

This captivating study tells Mexico’s best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitments of Mexican men and women as they made their way through the transition from the Viceroyalty of New Spain to an independent republic. In this volume Stevens shows how Mexico assumed a new place in Atlantic history as a nation coming to grips with modernization and colonial heritage, helping us to understand the paradox of a country with a reputation for fervent Catholicism that moved so quickly to disestablish the Church.