The Nature Of Disease

Author : Thomas H. McConnell
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781469829562

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The Nature of Disease by Thomas H. McConnell Pdf

Easy to understand and fun to read, this engaging primer on the etiology and pathogenesis of human disease helps health professions students develop a basic understanding of pathology without overwhelming them with details. Maintaining the acclaimed casual writing style that made the first edition so well-received, the Second Edition now offers more coverage of pathophysiology and is reorganized to more closely mirror the teaching trends in foundational courses across the country. Punctuated by humor, unique case studies that link pathology to real world clinical applications, and absorbing tales from the history of medicine, this proven book focuses on the patient as it guides students through the causes and consequences of common diseases. New pop quiz questions and case notes provide additional opportunities to apply and solidify knowledge.

Author : Thomas H. McConnell
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284219869

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Study Guide for the Nature of Disease by Thomas H. McConnell Pdf

Easy to understand and fun to read, this engaging primer on the etiology and pathogenesis of human disease will help you develop a basic understanding of pathology that will set you on the path to a successful career in the health professions. Punctuated by humor, unique case studies that link pathology to real-world clinical applications, and absorbing tales from the history of medicine, this engaging book focuses on the patient as it guides you through the causes and consequences of common diseases.

Author : Lawrie Reznek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000579413

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The Nature of Disease by Lawrie Reznek Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements. It investigates whether bodily conditions fall into natural kinds and whether these debates can be settled by discovering whether there are any natural boundaries dividing conditions into diseases and non-diseases. It considers whether the notion of disease is an evaluative notion or whether judgements about disease status are purely descriptive. The issue of whether other cultures with different values are justified in making different disease judgements is also discussed.

Author : Gerald N. Grob
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674037944

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The Deadly Truth by Gerald N. Grob Pdf

The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn creates novel risks to human health and life. We conquer particular diseases, but others always arise in their stead. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease. Diseases ranging from malaria to cancer have shaped the social landscape--sometimes through brief, furious outbreaks, and at other times through gradual occurrence, control, and recurrence. Grob integrates statistical data with particular peoples and places while giving us the larger patterns of the ebb and flow of disease over centuries. Throughout, we see how much of our history, culture, and nation-building was determined--in ways we often don't realize--by the environment and the diseases it fostered. The way in which we live has shaped, and will continue to shape, the diseases from which we get sick and die. By accepting the presence of disease and understanding the way in which it has physically interacted with people and places in past eras, Grob illuminates the extraordinarily complex forces that shape our morbidity and mortality patterns and provides a realistic appreciation of the individual, social, environmental, and biological determinants of human health.

Author : James Eustace Radcliffe MacDonagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Diseases
ISBN : OCLC:30991038

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The Nature of Disease by James Eustace Radcliffe MacDonagh Pdf

Author : Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 029908244X

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The Conquest of Epidemic Disease by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow Pdf

The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow's classic study in the history of medicine and public health, returns to print in this attractive paperback editon for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Author : Derek Bolton,Grant Gillett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030118990

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The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease by Derek Bolton,Grant Gillett Pdf

This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent developments. The book confronts the rapid changes to psychological science, neuroscience, healthcare, and philosophy that have occurred since the model was first proposed and addresses key issues such as the model’s scientific basis, clinical utility, and philosophical coherence. The authors conceptualise biology and the psychosocial as in the same ontological space, interlinked by systems of communication-based regulatory control which constitute a new kind of causation. These are distinguished from physical and chemical laws, most clearly because they can break down, thus providing the basis for difference between health and disease. This work offers an urgent update to the model’s scientific and philosophical foundations, providing a new and coherent account of causal interactions between the biological, the psychological and social.

Author : Henry Ernest Sigerist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OCLC:855708455

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Civilization and Disease by Henry Ernest Sigerist Pdf

Author : Timothy Richards Lewis,David Douglas Cunningham
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783863471286

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Fungus-disease of India by Timothy Richards Lewis,David Douglas Cunningham Pdf

Lewis' and Cunningham's work sets out to establish whether the connection between vegetable growths (fungi) and the diseases characterised by such growths is one of causation or correlation. Having worked as assistants to the sanitary commissioner of India, the researchers focus on the Madura foot-and-hand-disease common on the subcontinent. Fungoid growth of two distinct kinds is characteristic in various stages of the disease. Both the "pale" and the "dark" variety are examined and exemplified on various specimens in order to reveal if they provide a causal factor of the disease.

Author : Robert P. Scheffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 052148247X

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The Nature of Disease in Plants by Robert P. Scheffer Pdf

This book is about how plants get diseases, from the origins and evolution of parasites to how the great plant epidemics developed. The basic premise of the book is that the conditions favouring disease are inherent in agriculture and that diseases become destructive because of human activities. It also deals with how people have dealt with plant diseases in history. Included in the book are the natural histories of some of the most damaging plant diseases, worldwide, with discussions of why each became destructive. Diseases are grouped according to the most significant factors in the development of epidemics: in every case this is due to a human factor. Discussion of each model disease proceeds from observable facts to more complex concepts; thus, the reader with little knowledge of plant pathology should find the book easily understandable.

Author : Nancy Leys Stepan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781861899675

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Eradication by Nancy Leys Stepan Pdf

The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian, but eradication—used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by deliberate public health interventions—has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria, and smallpox have been among the largest, most costly programs ever undertaken in international public health. But only one so far has been successful—that against smallpox. And yet in 2007 Bill and Melinda Gates surprised the world with the announcement that they were committing their foundation to eradicating malaria. Polio eradication is another of their priorities. Are such costly programs really justifiable? The first comprehensive account of the major disease-eradication campaigns from the early twentieth century right up to the present, Eradication places these ambitious goals in their broad historical and contemporary contexts. From the life and times of the American arch-eradicationist Dr. Fred Lowe Soper (1893-1977), who was at the center of many of the campaigns and controversies surrounding eradication in his lifetime, to debates between proponents of primary health care approaches to ill health versus the eradicationists, Nancy Leys Stepan’s narrative suggests that today these differing public health approaches may be complementary rather than in conflict. Enlightening for general readers and specialists alike, Eradication is an illuminating look at some of the most urgent problems of health and disease around the world.

Author : Vera A. Paulson,Mark A. Valasek
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Pathology
ISBN : 1609133706

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Study Guide to Accompany the Nature of Disease by Vera A. Paulson,Mark A. Valasek Pdf

Study Guide for The Nature of Disease: Pathology for the Health Professions reinforces and consolidates the complex concepts presented in the companion text and facilitates content mastery. Its comprehensive set of self-study tools follows the Learning Objective in the main text. Each chapter also includes one or more Decision Trees, which provide practical algorithms for understanding the process of diagnostics and critical thinking for given topics in the health professions.

Author : Theobald Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258419947

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Parasitism and Disease by Theobald Smith Pdf

Author : Frank Mac Farlane Burnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : OCLC:1106601438

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Natural History of Infectious Disease by Frank Mac Farlane Burnet Pdf

Author : J. E. R. McDonagh
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781483194547

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The Nature of Disease by J. E. R. McDonagh Pdf

The Nature of Disease, Part III deals with mal-coordination and disease, disease and the nervous systems, and chronic intestinal intoxication. This book discusses the signs and symptoms of disease which is the result of the body's failure to resist infection. The author sees that dehydration is the prevailing abnormal chemico-physical change in the acute stage of disease attack; hydration in the chronic stage. He notes that these two phenomena occur when protein particles in the plasma in disease undergo either a dehydration or hydration process. The author also reviews F.M. Alexander's work on the conscious control of the individual, through psycho-physical mechanism, as a whole body, instead of being reflected in certain anatomical part such as the kidneys, liver, or skin. The author examines the interrelationships between mal-coordination and the nervous system. Such mal-coordination results in chronic intestinal intoxication on nervous manifestations; the author then demonstrates how nerve tissues are damaged by abnormal protein particles in the plasma. The author cites several cases of mal-coordination concerning the nervous system, the vegetative nervous system and the alimentary tract, as well as the role played by a chronic intestinal intoxication in the invasion of the nervous system by micro-organisms. This book can prove informative for cellular biologists, researchers in micro-chemistry or neuro-biology, and doctors in general practice.