Medicine And Western Civilization

Author : David J. Rothman,Steven Marcus,Stephanie A. Kiceluk
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0813521904

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Medicine and Western Civilization by David J. Rothman,Steven Marcus,Stephanie A. Kiceluk Pdf

This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.

Author : William Bechmann Wartman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Medical education
ISBN : OCLC:6747226

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Medical Teaching in Western Civilization by William Bechmann Wartman Pdf

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780306480942

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Medicine Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography.

Author : Deborah Lupton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1302624299

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Medicine as Culture by Deborah Lupton Pdf

Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0199248133

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Western Medicine by Irvine Loudon Pdf

Follows the advance of western medicine from ancient Greece, through the contributions of the great Islamic physicians, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans and organ transplants. Highlighting the great medical discoveries, contributors cover such topics as the relationship in the Renaissance between medicine and art, the tension between the church and an increasingly secularized medical professional class, epidemics and the geography of disease, and changing attitudes towards childbirth, mental disease, and the doctor-patient relationship. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101548028

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Civilization by Niall Ferguson Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Author : Paolo Palmieri
Publisher : Common Ground Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 1863358633

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Humanistic Ecology by Paolo Palmieri Pdf

Humanistic ecology builds on the interrelatedness of traditions such as magic, medicine, and science, as exemplified in the history of Western civilization in order to integrate forgotten or marginalized pathways to knowledge and well-being.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521632625

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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine by Joseph Needham Pdf

The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Author : Andrew Targowski
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1536107573

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Western Civilization in the 21st Century by Andrew Targowski Pdf

This book took the task of conceptualising Western civilisation in the 21st century. It examines Western Civilisation and its encounters from a viewpoint of the impact of rising Global civilisations in the 21st century. This political and technological success of Western civilisation in the last 500 years triggered a dream of spreading around the globe Democracy and liberal Capitalism. Western society was held together by Christian morality (regardless whether someone was a believer or a non-believer or agnostic). The medicine for all shortcomings faced by Western civilisation in the 21st century is offered by Al Gore in his book "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change" (2013). He thinks that inventions and technology will save Western civilisation. The author of this book argues that vice versa, the rise of certain technologies are the main reason for the decline of Western civilisation. These kind of issues will be investigated in this book and the message is not optimistic, since Westerners, when are poor are wise, and when are better off are stupid. Hence, without practicing wisdom, Western civilisation cannot be revived.

Author : Erik Kwakkel,Francis Newton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 2503579213

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Medicine at Monte Cassino by Erik Kwakkel,Francis Newton Pdf

His most important contribution, an encyclopedia he called the Pantegni (The Complete Art), was translated and adapted from the Complete Book of the Medical Art by the Persian physician ?Ali ibn al-?Abb?s al-Ma??s? (d. 982). This monograph focuses on the oldest manuscript of the Pantegni,Theorica, which represents a work-in-progress with numerous unusual features.00This study, for the first time, identifies Monte Cassino as the origin of this oldest Pantegni manuscript, and asserts that it was made during Constantine?s lifetime. It further demonstrates how a skilled team of scribes and scholars assisted the translator in the complex process of producing this Latin version of the Arabic text. .

Author : Deborah Lupton
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117962972

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Medicine as Culture by Deborah Lupton Pdf

This edition provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in Western societies.

Author : Robert A. Hahn,Atwood D. Gaines
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9027717907

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Physicians of Western Medicine by Robert A. Hahn,Atwood D. Gaines Pdf

After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central to its clinical practice - managing errors and learning to conduct a shared moral dis course about mistakes, handling issues of competence and competition among biomedical practitioners, practicing in value-laden contexts on problems for which social science is a more relevant knowledge base than biological science, integrating folk and scientific models of illness in clinical communication, among a large number of highly pertinent ethnographic insights that illuminate medicine in the chapters that follow.

Author : Mirko Dražen Grmek,Bernardino Fantini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674007956

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Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Mirko Dražen Grmek,Bernardino Fantini Pdf

This history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine. Grmek and his contributors adopt a synthetic, cross-disciplinary approach, with attention to cultural, social, and economic forces.

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421412160

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Medicine and Religion by Gary B. Ferngren Pdf

Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care. And, while tensions have sometimes existed, relations between medicine and religion have often been cooperative and mutually beneficial. Religious beliefs provided a framework for explaining disease and suffering that was larger than medicine alone could offer. These beliefs furnished a theological basis for a compassionate care of the sick that led to the creation of the hospital and a long tradition of charitable medicine. Praise for Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity, by Gary B. Ferngren "This fine work looks forward as well as backward; it invites fuller reflection of the many senses in which medicine and religion intersect and merits wide readership."—JAMA "An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of theological interest, and for health care practitioners who seek a historical perspective on the development of the ethos of their vocation."—Journal of Religion and Health

Author : John Harley Warner,Janet Ann Tighe
Publisher : Major Problems in American His
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055910825

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Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health by John Harley Warner,Janet Ann Tighe Pdf

This text presents a carefully selected group of readings on medical history and development that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.