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Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medicine
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111450610
A new comprehensive book on the history of medicine.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1031495437
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393242447
"To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D. Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to today's threat of AIDS and ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book "has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field" (The Lancet). "The author's perceptiveness is, as usual, scalpel-sharp; his manner genially bedside; his erudition invigorating." - Simon Schama
Author : Tamara Venit Shelton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780300249408
An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia medica crossing between China and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues, has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both facilitating and undermining the consolidation of medical authority among formally trained biomedical scientists in the United States. Practitioners of Chinese medicine, as racial embodiments of “irregular” medicine, became useful foils for Western physicians struggling to assert their superiority of practice. At the same time, Chinese doctors often embraced and successfully employed Orientalist stereotypes to sell their services to non-Chinese patients skeptical of modern biomedicine. What results is a story of racial constructions, immigration politics, cross-cultural medical history, and the lived experiences of Asian Americans in American history.
Author : United States. Federal Housing Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123804549
Author : Dhiraj Bakshi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154116332X
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Author : Dhiraj Bakshi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540841766
Tenth Incarnation
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780141932330
Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields (surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body) in a way that is both frightening and elating. Startlingly illustrated, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the ideal presentfor anyone who is keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it. It is also a wonderful memorial to one of Penguin's greatest historians.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521864268
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
Author : Ram Prakash Singhal
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684668625
Gita leads us from spiritual infancy to maturity, impulsive irrationality to intelligent rationalism, and agitation to tranquility. ‘G-OO-D’ contains two ‘O’s between ‘G’, the God, and ‘D’, the Devil. First ‘O’ near ‘G’ denotes Obeisance to God; and second ‘O’, near Devil, denotes Obfuscation. Eliminate Obfuscation from life to see God in everything ‘Good’. Ego and prejudice are the earplugs that stop us from listening to inner voice of God. Enjoy the 3 D film of life by wearing spectacle of Anaasakti, the indifference. Orthodoxy is the peel of a banana whose pulp is Dharm. We shouldn’t set foot on the peel and slip into gutter but relish soul-nourishing pulp. Our senses must follow our commands like the ‘Genie’ of Aladdin’s lamp. The best batsman defends his wicket by driving every ball to boundary but the less skilled runs to score; and the least skilled is bowled out. Dharm appears as the ferocious tiger Richard Parker in the film ‘Life of Pi’. Initially Pi struggles to save himself from tiger; then it suddenly dawns on him that the tiger is an indispensible anchor of his life in the boat. His simple attitudinal change saves the beast and himself.
Author : David T. Courtwright
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674253513
What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.
Author : Michael C. LeMay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216157038
Utilizing multiple perspectives of related academic disciplines, this three-volume set of contributed essays enables readers to understand the complexity of immigration to the United States and grasp how our history of immigration has made this nation what it is today. Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration covers immigration to the United States from the founding of America to the present. Comprising 3 volumes of 31 original scholarly essays, the work is the first of its kind to explore immigration and immigration policy in the United States throughout its history. These essays provide a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives from experts in cultural anthropology, history, political science, economics, and education. The book will provide readers with a critical understanding of the historical precedents to today's mass migration. Viewing the immigration issue from the perspectives of the contributors' various relevant disciplines enables a better grasp of the complex conundrum presented by legal and illegal immigration policy.
Author : Peter Vinten-Johansen,Howard Brody,Nigel Paneth,Stephen Rachman,David Zuck,Michael Rip
Publisher : Medicine
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195135442
The result is a book that demythologizes some overly heroic views of Snow by providing a fairer measure of his actual contributions.
Author : Frank D. Campion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medical care
ISBN : UOM:39015007121562
Abstract: An authoritative text for health policy makers and health historians presents a comprehensive and comprehensible review of the American Medical Association (AMA) activities and interactions with health promotion and US health policy from 1940 to the present. The 23 text chapters are focused in 4 principal areas. The first area addresses the changing US medical care system, medical and surgical breakthroughs, and the major move towards the development of medical specialization fields, defining the changing environment in US health brought about by medical advances and an increased attention in US policy over the past 44 years. The second area describes the role and functions of the AMA. Most of the text addresses the third area, covering significant events in medical policy and costs. The final section discusses the interactions of the AMA with medical education, medical science, and medical care today. Information on the "physician masterfile", AMA's response to the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE), interviews conducted to develop the text material, and a listing of AMA chairmen and presidents, are appended. (wz).
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137098009
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the ancien regime and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of this many-faceted movement.