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Author : Peter I. Folb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Abnormalities, Drug-induced
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039135574
Author : Jack Botting
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781783741175
Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge gained has saved countless lives—both human and animal. Unfortunately, those opposed to using animals in research have often employed doctored evidence to suggest that the practice has impeded medical progress. This volume presents the articles Jack Botting wrote for the Research Defence Society News from 1991 to 1996, papers which provided scientists with the information needed to rebut such claims. Collected, they can now reach a wider readership interested in understanding the part of animal experiments in the history of medicine—from the discovery of key vaccines to the advancement of research on a range of diseases, among them hypertension, kidney failure and cancer.This book is essential reading for anyone curious about the role of animal experimentation in the history of science from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Trent Stephens,Rock Brynner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786731121
In this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. A parable about compassion-and the absence of it-Dark Remedy is a gripping account of thalidomide's extraordinary impact on the lives of individuals and nations over half a century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HR02171856
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015007732186
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author : Karen Patrias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Thalidomide
ISBN : MINN:31951D01668055C
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015010653791
Author : Sarah Ferber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137265654
How influential has the Nazi analogy been in recent medical debates on euthanasia? Is the history of eugenics being revived in modern genetic technologies? And what does the tragic history of thalidomide and its recent reintroduction for new medical treatments tell us about how governments solve ethical dilemmas? Bioethics in Historical Perspective shows how our understanding of medical history still plays a part in clinical medicine and medical research today. With clear and balanced explanations of complex issues, this extensively documented set of case studies in biomedical ethics explores the important role played by history in thinking about modern medical practice and policy. This book provides student readers with up-to-date information about issues in bioethics, as well as a guide to the most influential ethical standpoints. New twists added to well-known stories will engage those more familiar with the challenging field of contemporary bioethics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015013977098
Thalidomide, was hailed as a "wonder drug" that provided a "safe, sound sleep". Thalidomide was a sedative that was found to be effective when given to pregnant women to combat many of the symptoms associated with morning sickness. The drug was tested on animals. When given to pregnant women, thalidomide was a catastrophic drug with tragic side effects. It caused startling birth malformations, and death to babies. Birth defects included: deafness, blindness, disfigurement, cleft palate, and phocomelia (short limbs). The FDA did not approve thalidomide in the United States. Around the world, in the late 1960's and into the early 1970's, the victims of the drug thalidomide and their families entered into class action legal suits against the various drug companies who manufactured and/or distributed the drug. This book tells the story of thalidomide in Great Britain and how the parents overcame the formidable obstacles placed in their way to secure a just settlement for their children.
Author : Deepa Arora
Publisher : Pharmapublisher
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788192335407
Author : David F. Smith,H. Lesley Diack
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Corned beef
ISBN : 1843831384
Study of the 1963/4 typhoid outbreak, highlighting issues and debates which are strikingly relevant today. The problem of food poisoning and food-borne infections is currently one of vigorous debate, highlighted since the 1980s by numerous outbreaks and scares involving salmonella in lettuce and eggs, listeria in cheese, the links between vCJD and BSE, E.Coli 0157 in cooked meats, and foot and mouth disease. Yet, as this book shows, the various issues involved were important as early as 1963/4, when there were serious typhoid outbreaks in Harlow, South Shields, Bedford, and Aberdeen, traced to contaminated corned beef imported from Argentina. Based upon extensive research, using archives which have only recently become available, private papers, and interviews as well as secondary literature, the book analyses the course of the outbreak and looks at the responses of politicians, officials, health professionals, business interests, the media and the public. It also considers the difficult issue of the weighing offood safety against international trade and other business and economic interests; conflicts between government departments; rivalry between professionals such as doctors and veterinarians; the effects upon and influence of victims and local communities; and the conduct of and responses to an official enquiry. Overall, it draws out generic lessons for how such epidemics should be handled, adding an historical perspective to contemporary debates.
Author : N. D. A. Kemp
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719061245
The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault lines in executive-legislative relations in the UK, as well as the deep complexities surrounding British constitutional politics. The story of parliamentary reform is about the nature of the British political system, about how the government seeks to expand its control over parliament, and about how parliament discharges its duty to scrutinise the executive and hold it to account. This book, available in paperback for the first time, charts the course of Westminster reform since 1997, but does so by placing it in the context of parliamentary reform pursued in the past, and thus adopts a historical perspective which lends it considerable analytical value. Significantly, the book examines parliamentary reform through the lens of institutional theory, in order not only to describe reform but also to interpret and explain it. It also draws on extensive interviews conducted with MPs and peers involved in the reform of parliament since 1997, thus offering a unique insight into how these political actors perceived the reform process in which they played a part.Parliamentary reform at Westminster, now available in paperback, provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of the reform of parliament, along with an incisive interpretation of the implications for our understanding of British politics.
Author : Adrian Kilcoyne,Phil Ambery,Daniel O'Connor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191510397
The breadth of the pharmaceutical medicine can be daunting, but this book is designed to navigate a path through the speciality. Providing a broad overview of all topics relevant to the discipline of pharmaceutical medicine, it gives you the facts fast, in a user-friendly format, without having to dive through page upon page of dense text. With 136 chapters spread across 8 sections, the text offers a thorough grounding in issues ranging from medicines regulation to clinical trial design and data management. This makes it a useful revision aid for exams as well as giving you a taster of areas of pharmaceutical medicine adjacent to your current role. For healthcare professionals already working in the field, this book offers a guiding hand in difficult situations as well as supplying rapid access to the latest recommendations and guidelines. Written by authors with experience in the industry and drug regulation, this comprehensive and authoritative guide provides a shoulder to lean on throughout your pharmaceutical career.
Author : Cynthia R. Comacchio,Janet Lynne Golden,George Weisz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773574588
In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development." Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, disability studies, and sociology - and across a broad geography, Healing the World's Children sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.
Author : Martin Johnson
Publisher : Onwards and Upwards
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788156301
"e;This momentous book is the first comprehensive history of thalidomide...It demonstrates how many thousands of victims could have been spared very late in the day if Chemie Grunenthal had taken any notice of the early alarms: ... [It] carries conviction by its scientific rigour, and the clarity of the writing. Fifty years after the deaths and sufferings, the thalidomide tragedy is marked by ... the odour of corruption and cover up."e; - Sir Harold Evans, former editor of The Sunday Times and The Times