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Cambridge University Press Bodies of Work
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Cambridge University Press Bodies of Work
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Cambridge University Press Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
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Cambridge University Press Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Medicine
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Cambridge University Press When Disease Came to This Country
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Cambridge University Press Galen
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Cambridge University Press Childhood Pain and Emotion
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Cambridge University Press Making Medical Progress
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Cambridge University Press The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe A Cultural History 17 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 17
Book SynopsisThis compelling cultural history draws on visual, material and textual evidence to investigate the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment. Simons redirects attention away from the modern focus on anatomical attributes to find that male bodies were considered in terms of their active physiological processes.Trade Review'This is a remarkable book, based on an extraordinary depth of scholarship. Patricia Simons provides a detailed unpicking of the sexual codes of Renaissance Europe, so that one can finally understand the innuendo. No-one else has her detailed knowledge, and she has it for language, image and material object - this is real cultural history in the round. And her fundamental argument is completely original, and will change how we think about the period. The book is a treat to read, never jargonistic and always witty.' Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford'With this book Patricia Simons offers a characteristically original, learned, and passionate critique of some of the ruling assumptions of gender studies, above all as these have operated in the study of early modern culture. Artifacts and images are called upon to serve a set of arguments grounded in medical literature, trial reports concerning medical-juridical anomalies such as hermaphrodites, popular and elite literatures, jokes, pastimes and folklore. The breadth of erudition is impressive in the extreme.' Stephen Campbell, Johns Hopkins University'This exuberant new history of the masculine body combines art history, material culture, literature and sexuality. Patricia Simons has it all - encyclopedic knowledge, phenomenal interpretations, subtle inferences from the medical archive, and the keenest observation of visual nuance.' James Grantham Turner, University of California, Berkeley'In this excellent study, Patricia Simons finally makes comprehensible the conceptual framework that shaped understandings and experiences of the body that, she argues, have been largely obscured by both psychoanalytic theory and cultural history … Based on diverse sources from medical to popular literature and encompassing a wide range of visual and material culture, the analysis is alert to the interrelationship between representation and metaphor on the one hand and action and experience on the other, which affords mutual agency to the cultural and corporeal.' Alexandra Shepard, Bulletin of the History of Medicine'A thought-provoking and important study of the premodern European perceptions of the sexed (male) body that provides critical insights on sex and gender not only for the scholars of early modernity but for anyone concerned with bodies and gender, past or present.' Council for European StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Witnessing Men's Bodies: Paradigms Old and New: 1. How to be a man in early modern Europe; 2. The phallus: history and humour; 3. Material culture in late medieval and early modern Europe; Part II. Projecting Male Sex: Models and Metaphors: 4. Physiology and anatomy; 5. Value and expenditure; 6. Pleasure and the unequal two-seed theory; 7. Fertility and beyond; 8. Implements in action; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Endeavour of Jean Fernel With A List Of The Editions Of His Writings
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1946, this book examines the writing and controversy of Jean Fernel's The Natural Part of Medicine, the 1542 publication that attempted to replace Galen's treatise on physiology. Sherrington assesses Fernel's impact on the field of medical writing, and includes multiple plates illustrating early editions of Fernel's treatise.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Part I. The Struggle and its Aims; Part II. The Earliest 'Physiology'; Part III. Success and the Close; Appendix, Notes, Etc.: 1. Biographical notices of Fernel Guillaume Plancy; 2. Plancy's 'Life' of Fernel; 3. Clichtoveus; 4. 'Insidiosae pacis'; 5. Jacques Govea; 6. Goulin's researches regarding Fernel; 7. Shellfish and the moon; 8. Valcher's tractates; 9. Riolan the Elder's works on Fernel; 10. The fatal tourney-wound of Henri II of France; 11. Other portraits of Fernel; 12. Guy Patin; 13. The text of the 'Physiology' of 1554; 14. Boerhaave's recommendation of books for medical curriculum; 15. Nicolas Leonicenus; 16. Thomas Lunacre; 17. Passage in the Pathologia, 1567; 18. Laurent Joubert's Paradoxes; 19. Fracastor on cause of syphilis; List of editions of the writings of Jean Fernel; Chronology of events; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Embryology
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1959 as the second edition of a 1934 original, this book describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth through Graeco-Roman antiquity to the close of the eighteenth century. The text is illustrated with plates and diagrams showing the development of scientific understanding over time, first through artistic representations of gestation and later through scientific drawings and sketches. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of medicine.Table of ContentsList of plates; Preliminary note; 1. Embryology in antiquity; 2. Embryology from Galen to the Renaissance; 3. Embryology in the seventeenth century; 4. Embryology in the eighteenth century; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Plague and Music in the Renaissance
Book SynopsisPlague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book uncovers the place of music - whether regarded as an indispensable medicine or a moral poison that exacerbated outbreaks - in the management of the disease. This original musicological approach further reveals how composers responded, in their works, to the discourses and practices surrounding one of the greatest medical crises in the pre-modern age. Addressing topics such as music as therapy, public rituals and performance and music in religion, the volume also provides detailed musical analysis throughout to illustrate how pestilence affected societal attitudes toward music.Trade Review'Plague and Music in the Renaissance does a fine job of presenting the pressures that plague put upon medical, theological, and civic understanding. It beautifully outlines the manner in which Saint Sebastian became identified with the plague.' Chadwick Jenkins, Notes'… the book is a very judicious and well-structured study on this otherwise underresearched topic of music in the medical regimens against plague, and covers a wide span of Renaissance music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.' Johann F. W. Hasler, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Medicine for the body and soul; 2. Sympathetic resonance, sympathetic contagion; 3. Devotions on the street and in the home; 4. The cult of St Sebastian; 5. Madrigals, Mithridates, and the plague of Milan.
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Cambridge University Press The Medieval Islamic Hospital
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, and architecture; their role in charity networks and political projects; and their connections to non-Islamic institutions. Ahmed Ragab sheds light on who medieval hospital patients were and how early hospital medicine differed from other forms of medical practice.Trade Review'… specialist and non-specialist alike will be enthralled by much of what the author has to tell them, as he unveils a medieval hospital world far too little known even to Islamicists, let alone historians of medieval Europe.' History TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue: a tale of two bīmāristāns; Part I. Building a Bīmāristān: 1. From Jerusalem to Damascus: the monumental bīmāristāns of the Levant; 2. Reclaiming the past: the (new) bīmāristāns of Egypt; 3. 'The best of deeds': medical patronage in Mamluk Egypt; Part II. Physicians and Patients: 4. Theory and practice: the reign of the bīmāristān physicians; 5. 'A house for king and slave': the patients of the bīmāristān; Conclusion; Annex: who built the first Islamic hospital?
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Cambridge University Press A History of Epidemics in Britain
Book SynopsisIn this first volume of his history of epidemics in Britain, controversial physician Charles Creighton begins his examination of diseases in Britain from the first British epidemic in 664 AD to the end of the Great Plague in 1666. The work is broken down by time period and disease.Table of Contents1. Pestilences previous to the Black Death, chiefly from famines; 2. Leprosy in medieval Britain; 3. The Black Death of 1348–9; 4. England after the Black Death, with the epidemics to 1485; 5. The sweating sickness, 1485–1551; 6. Plague in the Tudor period; 7. Gaol fevers, influenzas, and other fevers in the Tudor period; 8. The French pox; 9. Smallpox and measles; 10. Plague, fever and influenza from the accession of James I to the Restoration; 11. Sicknesses of early voyages and colonies; 12. The Great Plague of London, and the last of plague in England.
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Cambridge University Press Muslim Midwives
Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. It takes a broad historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period.Trade Review'Giladi's source base is broad and diverse; his reading has clearly been vast, and he does a very good job of making his enormous body of quotations, facts, and narratives manageable for the reader. The extremely broad scope of the project (both chronological and geographical) is justified by the sparse and difficult nature of his data, which sometimes requires him to discern patterns and commonalities (or, less often, contrasts and changes) by bringing together scattered examples gleaned from different times and places.' Marion H. Katz, Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Islamic views on birth and motherhood; 2. Midwifery as a craft; 3. The subordinate midwife: male physicians versus female midwives; 4. The absent midwife; 5. The privileged midwife; 6. Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place; 7. From traditional to modern midwifery in the Middle East; Concluding remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Shell Shock in France 191418
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1940, this book was written by Charles S. Myers, who was Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in France and the First World War. Based on a war diary, it explains the work he did in France and England for shell shock and shell concussion cases, and, as he writes, may well serve 'to re-enlighten the general public as to the nature of shell shock, and to convince them how dependent it is on previous history and inherited predisposition, on inadequate examination and selection of soldiers for the front line, on lack of proper discipline and esprit de corps; and how necessary it may be to adopt apparently harsh measures in order to diminish the undoubted contagiousness of the complaint.'Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The origin and development of my work in France; 2. The features and causation of 'shell shock'; 3. The treatment and psychopathology of 'shell shock'; 4. The disposal of cases in France; 5. The disposal of cases in the United Kingdom; Glossary of medical terms; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia
Book SynopsisGalen (129c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. This monumental 22-volume edition of his complete works by Karl Gottlob Kühn (17541840), originally published in Leipzig between 1821 and 1833 and reissued here, has never yet been rivalled.Table of Contents1. De caussis morborum liber; 2. De symptomatum differentiis liber; 3. De symptomatum caussis lib. I; 4. De symptomatum caussis lib. II; 5. De symptomatum caussis lib. III; 6. De febrium differentiis lib. I; 7. De febrium differentiis lib. II; 8. De morborum temporibus liber; 9. De totius morbi temporibus liber; 10. De typis liber; 11. Adversus eos, qui de typis scripserund; 12. De plenitudine liber; 13. De tremore, palpitatione, convulsione et rigore liber; 14. De comate secundum Hippocratem lib.; 15. De marcore liber; 16. De tumoribus praeter naturam; 17. De inaequali intemperie liber; 18. De difficultate respirationis lib. I; 19. De difficultate respirationis lib. II; 20. De difficultate respirationis lib. III.
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Cambridge University Press Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia
Book SynopsisGalen (129c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. This monumental 22-volume edition of his complete works by Karl Gottlob Kühn (17541840), originally published in Leipzig between 1821 and 1833 and reissued here, has never yet been rivalled.Table of ContentsPraefatio; 1. De causis pulsuum lib. I; 2. De causis pulsuum lib. II; 3. De causis pulsuum lib. III; 4. De causis pulsuum lib. IV; 5. De praesagitione ex pulsibus lib. I; 6. De praesagitione ex pulsibus lib. II; 7. De praesagitione ex pulsibus lib. III; 8. De praesagitione ex pulsibus lib. IV; 9. Galeni synopsis librorum suorum de pulsibus; 10. De crisibus lib. I; 11. De crisibus lib. II; 12. De crisibus lib. III; 13. De diebus decretoriis lib. I; 14. De diebus decretoriis lib. II; 15. De diebus decretoriis lib. III.
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Cambridge University Press Medical Ethics
Book SynopsisThe physician and medical reformer Thomas Percival (17401804) saw the need for a code to guide doctor-patient relations. Based on Hippocratic and Christian principles, his highly influential code was published in 1803 and is considered the first modern formulation of medical ethics.Table of ContentsDedication; Preface; 1. Of professional conduct relative to hospital or other medical charities; 2. Of professional conduct in private, or general practice; 3. Of the conduct of physicians to apothecaries; 4. Of professional duties in certain cases which require a knowledge of law; 5. Notes and illustrations.
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Cambridge University Press The Works Literary Moral and Medical of Thomas Percival M.D.
Book SynopsisA physician and medical reformer, Thomas Percival (17401804) is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the formulation of medical ethics. This four-volume collection, published in 1807, gathers together his diverse works. A selection of his correspondence and a short biography are also included.Table of ContentsAdvertisement; Part I: Preface; The empiric, or man of experience; The dogmatic, or rationalist; Experiments and observations on astringents and bitters; On the uses and operation of blisters; An inquiry into the resemblance between chyle and milk; Experiments and observations on water, particularly the hard pump water of Manchester; On the disadvantages of inoculating children in early infancy; On the efficacy of external applications in the angina maligna, or ulcerous sore throat; Part II: Preface; Observations and experiments on the Columbo root; On the preparation, culture, and use of the orchis root; Experiments and observations on the waters of Buxton and Matlock; Observations on the medicinal uses of fixed air; On the antiseptic and sweetening powers, and on the varieties of factitious air; On the noxious vapours of charcoal; On the atrabilis; On the septic quality of sea salt; On coffee; Select histories of diseases with remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (18361917), physician, feminist and champion of women's medical education, played a key role in advancing the position of women in British professional life. This 1939 biography by her daughter Louisa, herself a distinguished physician, is presented largely through Elizabeth's own letters.
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Cambridge University Press Magic Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisFrom the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He describes a time when witches flew through the dark of night to feast on the flesh of unbaptized infants, magicians conversed with angels or struck pacts with demons, and astrologers cast the horoscopes of royalty. Ground-breaking discoveries changed the way that people understood the universe while, in laboratories and coffee houses, philosophers discussed how to reconcile the scientific method with the veneration of God. This engaging, illustrated new study introduces readers to the vibrant history behind the emergence of the modern world.Trade Review'An enchanting, yet eminently accessible, tour of the magical and mysterious in European thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. The real wizardry is how Waddell masterfully explains the uniqueness of early modern views of magic, religion and nature, while emphasizing the profound links between this past and our present.' Matthew James Crawford, Kent State University'Waddell provides a superb review of the intersections among belief systems and underlines the great extent to which they determined early modern lived experience. Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe is deftly written and invites the reader to imagine as well as learn, to engage curiosity and passion as well as intellect. It is a triumph in the genre.' Allison Kavey, CUNY John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center'Waddell's book is a brilliant work of synthesis and, in effect, he performs his own kind of alchemy, transforming heavyweight theories in the history and philosophy of science into crystal clear, accessible prose, creating a rich summary of his topic in just over 200 pages. Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe will be a staple on student reading lists for years to come.' Ross MacFarlane, Fortean Times'... a very helpful bibliographical essay offering suggestions for further reading.' José Manuel Lozano-Gotor, ESSSAT News & Reviews'This fascinating and detailed study enables a deeper understanding of the dynamics and development of modernity and makes a valuable contribution to European history …' Nicole Maria Bauer, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Hermeticism, the Cabala, and the Search for Ancient Wisdom; 2. Witchcraft and Demonology; 3. Magic, Medicine, and the Microcosm; 4. A New Cosmos: Copernicus, Galileo, and the Motion of the Earth; 5. Looking for God in the Cosmic Machine; 6. Manipulating Nature: Experiment and Alchemy in the Scientific Revolution; 7. A New World? The Dawn of the Enlightenment; Conclusion; Bibliographical Essays.
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Cambridge University Press The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Book SynopsisSituated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam under French rule. Laurence Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context. She argues that colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines and speaks to contemporary concerns regarding over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, drug toxicity, self-medication, and the accessibility of effective medicines. Retracing the steps by which pharmaceuticals were produced and distributed, readers meet the many players in the process, from colonial doctors to private pharmacists, from consumers to various drug traders and healers. Yet this is not primarily a history of medicines as objects of colonial science, but rather a hisTrade Review'Historians of colonial medicine and anthropologists who study the social life of pharmaceuticals have been eagerly awaiting this book. With exceptional panache, Monnais shows us how taking the material turn can transform the history of global health into a genealogy of our pharmaceutical present. An anthropological sensibility reveals the everyday practice of state medicine, the fostering of markets for medical commodities, and the creation of modern, drug-dependent consumers. Just like mosquitoes, it seems, drugs have lifecycles and ecological niches, and they can serve too as vectors - not of disease, but rather, of European medicine and modernity.' Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney'From colonial indifference and toxic fears to avid consumerism and hybrid therapeutics, Monnais reveals the dynamic history behind Vietnam's pharmaceutical pasts. Her meticulous research highlights Vietnamese agency in the making of a modern medical culture and provides an exemplary study of the origins of medicalization in the global south.' David Arnold, University of Warwick'Brilliantly crafted and ingeniously researched, this is an absorbing exploration of medicalization and modernization under colonial rule that underscores the foundational agency of the colonized and the persistence of therapeutic pluralism. A richly textured study of Vietnam, it also offers a compelling model for understanding the vital role of medicines as vectors of social change across the Global South.' John Harley Warner, Yale University, ConnecticutTable of Contents1. Making medicines modern, making medicines colonial; 2. Medicines in colonial (public) health; 3. The mirage of mass distribution: state Quinine and essential medicines; 4. The many lives of medicines in the private market; 5. Crimes and misdemeanors: transactions and transgressions in the therapeutic market; 6. Learning effects: lived experiences, pharmaceutical publicity and the roots of selective demand; 7. Medicines as vectors of modernization and medicalization; 8. Therapeutic pluralism under colonial rule; Conclusion: from colonial medicines to post-colonial health.
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Cambridge University Press Introduction to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master
Book SynopsisThe first introductory guide to the fast-paced and emerging field of research, equipping readers with the knowledge to critically interpret and plan adaptive clinical trials and master protocols. An invaluable text for medical students and researchers, featuring a history of clinical trial research, case studies and a practical guide.Trade Review'A delightful, easy-to-read and must-have primer for anyone offering a course on basic concepts, ingredients, attributes, and different types of, including common misconceptions and practical considerations for, adaptive clinical trials and master protocols.' Lehana Thabane, Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Canada'This book fulfils an important need, providing a broad overview of recent work in innovative approaches to clinical trials. It covers two major types of innovative trial design that are becoming more widespread in clinical research: adaptive designs and master protocols. For readers who wish to delve into more depth, it provides a thorough review of literature on the topic. It also showcases available software, both commercial and free, and provides many real case studies of where the designs have been used in real trials. The book is written by three experts in the field who understand well the benefits and limitations of these approaches. It is relevant to those who work in academic trials as well as the pharmaceutical industry. I would highly recommend it as a great resource for clinical trialists who want to understand these approaches better.' James Wason, Professor of Biostatistics, Newcastle UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the Author; Preface; Part I. History and Introduction to Clinical Trial Research: 1. Introduction to Clinical Trial Research; 2. History of Clinical Trial Research. Part II. Basic Ingredients for Adaptive Trial Designs and Common Types: 3. Characteristics and Principles of Adaptive Trial Designs; 4. Common Types of Adaptive Trial Designs; 5. Clinical Trial Simulations; Part III. Basic Ingredients for Master Protocols: 6. Characteristics and Principles of Master Protocols; 7. Platform Trials; 8. Basket and Umbrella Trials; Part IV. Case Studies of Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols; 9. Case Studies of Adaptive Trial Designs; 10. Case Studies of Platform Trials; 11. Case Studies of Basket and Umbrella Trials; 12. Standards and Guidelines for Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols; Part V. A Practical Guide to Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols: 13. Common Misconceptions of Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols; 14. Practical Considerations for Adaptive Trial Designs and Master Protocols.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc China Syndrome
Book Synopsis“China Syndrome is a fast-moving, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction thriller that doubles as an excellent primer of emerging infections for scientists and laypeople alike. But that’s not all. For readers more captivated by world politics than by microbiology, its chief strength, beyond the superb writing, is a detailed look at China’s culture of secrecy in the throes of a global public health crisis.” — Los Angeles TimesWhen the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese boiling vinegar to purify the air, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime. Deftly tracking a mysterious viral killer from the bedside of one of the first victims to China''s overwhelmed hospital
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Quinine
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc American Breakdown
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Overkill
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Overkill
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HarperCollins Taking Care
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Penguin Putnam Inc Cured
Book Synopsis“Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily Beast Two patients—each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient—were cured of the HIV virus. The two patients’ disparate cures came twelve years apart, but Nathalia Holt, an award-winning scientist at the forefront of HIV research, connects the molecular dots of these cases for the first time. Scientists are known to maintain a professional distance from those they study, but sometimes scientists are not just investigators, they are caregivers, too. Cured illustrates that even in the era of high-tech and big pharma, the way doctors and patients communicate remains a critical ingredient in the advance of this science. Holt offers a kind of hope that the thir
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The University of Chicago Press Rum Maniacs Alcoholic Insanity in the Early
Book SynopsisReveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.Trade Review"In its detailed but wide-ranging attention to institutions, practices, theories, and aspirations shaping medical education, Rum Maniacs offers a sophisticated case study of the interplay of learned and popular cultures by which pathological drinking came to be imagined by nineteenth-century Americans." (Tom Augst, New York University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
Book SynopsisExamines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. This book demonstrates that regions, more so than a coherent nation, built the empire and specific medical concepts and practices.Trade Review"Deeply researched in a dozen archives, this concise book shows how nineteenth-century French naval and colonial medicine came to grips with an expanding empire and its bewildering assortment of peoples, places, and diseases. Osborne combines the study of institutions, individuals, and ideas into an elegant essay that everyone interested in the history of disease, health, and medicine will want to read." (J. R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires)"
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The University of Chicago Press Epidemic Invasions
Book SynopsisOriginating in Cuba in 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. This title uncovers how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries.Trade Review"This elegant study not only reshapes our understanding of U.S.-Cuban relations but also forces us to rethink the broader history of U.S. public health interventions all over the world. It is a model for doing transnational history." - Paul Sutter, University of Colorado"
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The University of Chicago Press Community Health Equity A Chicago Reader
Book SynopsisPerhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Equity assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago's structural socioeconomic inequalities have had on patients and medical facilities alike. The work collected here makes clear that when a city is sharply divided by power, wealth, and race, the citizens who most need high-quality health care and social services have the greatest difficulty accessing them. Achieving good health is not simply a matter of making the right choices as an individual, the research demonstrates: it's the product of large-scale political and economic forces. Understanding these forces, and what we can do to correct them, should be critical not only to doctors but to sociologists and students of the urban environment--and no city offers more inspiring examples for action to overcome social injustice in health than Chicago.Trade Review"In healthcare, we are taught that the right treatment comes from the right diagnosis. Paradoxically our profession almost always gets the diagnosis for health inequity wrong, and mistreats accordingly. Health workers who read this book will interrupt that cycle, recognizing that they cannot continue to support the current social arrangement if we dream of achieving health equity this generation."--Michelle Morse, founding codirector of EqualHealth "Community Health Equity is an exciting and important opportunity to present the whole story of Chicago's long and deeply rooted history of structural inequities. The book exposes a city divided by power and racism, which impacts access to health care, causing gaps in public health outcomes throughout the last hundred years. The editors detail how these inequities are duly caused and reinforced by structural and social determinants of health; they also provide ways to take action to address them. The target audience for Community Health Equity is wide and broad--after all, learning from the past can help shape and influence the future."--Christina R. Welter, University of Illinois at Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press Institutional Change Heathcare Organizations
Book SynopsisThe changes in the US healthcare system since World War II are documented here, from new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, to financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. The authors illustrate the work with five types of healthcare organizations.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Reforming Medical Education
Book SynopsisAn extensive history of the founding and early days of the College of Medicine at the University of IllinoisTrade Review"This is a superb history recounted by a gifted historian. Well indexed and enhanced by a set of interesting photos, the book represents a sterling example of medical politics at both its worst and best. The book is highly readable and strongly recommended."--Journal of the History of Medicine"Winton U. Solberg has written a lively and authoritative history of an important medical school during its formative years. It is well researched, well contextualized, and engaging. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in medical education or the University of Illinois."--Kenneth M. Ludmerer, author of Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed CareTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Sources and Abbreviations xiii Prologue 1 1. The Medical Scene at the Turn of the Century 7 2. The Medical Situation in Chicago 17 3. The University-Related Medical Colleges in Chicago 23 4. The Early Years of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 33 5. Affiliation: The College and the University 77 6. The Quine Library and the Students 95 7. Early Years of the College of Medicine under President James 115 8. Advancing the College of Medicine 133 9. Medical Politics, Reorganization, and a Retrospect 156 10. The University of Illinois College of Medicine 179 11. The Continued Quest for Excellence 203 12. A Clinical Building and a Hospital 226 Epilogue 246 Notes 253 Index 299
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MIT Press Ltd Asylum
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MIT Press Ltd Contraception A Concise History MIT Press
Book SynopsisThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs's clinic to the present. Drucker approaches the subject from the perspective of reproductive justice: the right to have a child, the right not to have a child, and the right to parent children safely and healthily.Drucker describes contraceptive methods a
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Hachette Books Mapping the Darkness
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Griffin Publishing Breakthrough Elizabeth Hughes the Discovery of
Book SynopsisIt is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones.
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WW Norton & Co The Cruelest Miles The Heroic Story of Dogs and
Book Synopsis"A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle TimesTrade Review"A classic tale of man against nature." -- Sara Wheeler - New York Times Book Review"Quite literally a cliff hanger." -- Emily Carter - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Stirring passages detailing the rigors of dogsledding, the bond between man and beast, and the importance of a good lead dog make for irresistible Jack London kind of stuff." -- David Stress - Seattle Weekly"Sequence by sequence the Salisburys have written not only about a race but also about our Alaskan history and the hardy people who first came, both Native and non-Native, to make our history so rich." -- Velma Wallis, author of Two Old Women"A scrupulously researched, cleanly written account that makes for a rollicking good adventure." -- Alice King - Entertainment Weekly"This a moving story, superbly researched and deftly told." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
£15.54
WW Norton & Co The Great Secret
Book SynopsisThe gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.Trade Review"In a history that reads like a novel, Conant connects the 1943 bombing by the Nazis of an American ship containing banned mustard gas to the development of chemotherapy as a cancer treatment." -- An Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Book Review"[A] compelling narrative.… fascinating." -- Laura Landro - Wall Street Journal"Engrossing.… Convey[s] a fast-paced medical detective story that demonstrates how careful scientific observation can yield unexpected benefits and serves as a reminder of the difficult choices made by governments to balance public health and secrecy in matters of security." -- Peter Reczek - Science"With a keen understanding of medical science, cancer, and the history of World War II, as well as an amazing range of sources, Conant dramatically illuminates a dark moment in history that eventually led to the medical breakthrough of chemotherapy." -- National Book Review"Few writers are better at finding new paths through the well-worn territory of World War II than historian Jennet Conant.... Conant delights in the devilish details, the hidden, overlooked, and deeply personal stories that constitute our collective historical record. In her deft and experienced hands, readers will discover great delight as well." -- Jessica Lahey - Air Mail"The Great Secret is a ripping good yarn, jam-packed with marvelous prose, wonderful historical characters, and superb research on a little-known but critical chapter in the history of medicine and the Second World War. I could not put this book down until I reached the final page." -- Howard Markel, MD, PhD, director of the Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan"With a scintillating detective-tale plot rendered with an accomplished novelist’s flair, Jennet Conant peels back the layers of deception employed by Allied authorities—including Winston Churchill—to conceal the fact that many of those who died at the Bari disaster in December 1943 perished from unprecedented exposure to mustard gas and immersion in ship fuel oil. This fast-paced narrative alone would make The Great Secret a landmark work, but Conant surpasses this with the even more astonishing chronicle of how insights into the Bari deaths ultimately galvanized the creation of the whole field of cancer chemotherapy. This is a heartbreaking and inspiring tale of tragedy leading to triumph." -- Richard B. Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937–May 1942"In her masterly The Great Secret, Jennet Conant has given us at once a crucial World War II story and a medical mystery as unsettling as it is gripping. As Conant’s hero (that’s not too strong a word), a US Army medical officer named Stewart Alexander, starts to unlock the secret that has caused scores of unnecessary deaths, he comes to understand the immense consequences of these now all-but-forgotten events, and sets in motion studies that&mdsah;as Ms. Conant explains with wonderfully lucid and vigorous authority—have shaped the medical landscape we inhabit today." -- Richard Snow, author of A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II"Jennet Conant has uncovered a humdinger of a tale, one that is equal parts war story, conspiracy thriller and medical mystery. More than anything, The Great Secret shows how the dogged efforts of a handful of scientists were able to turn a wartime tragedy and coverup into one of society’s greatest gifts. This is a rare jewel of a story that readers will love and fellow historians will covet." -- James M. Scott, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Target Tokyo and Rampage"Jennet Conant unravels the remarkable story of a World War II chemical weapons disaster which inspired one of the twentieth century’s greatest breakthroughs in medicine with verve and precision. The Great Secret reads like a wartime adventure and political thriller combined." -- Wendy Moore, author of No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
£13.29
Basic Books The Social Transformation of American Medicine
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£25.00
The University of Michigan Press The Corrigible and the Incorrigible
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Medicine at Michigan
Book SynopsisExplores how the University of Michigan Medical School has dealt with changes in medical science, practice, and social climates over the past 150 years. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of medicine as well as current and former medical faculty members, students, and employees of the University of Michigan Medical School.Trade ReviewMedicine at Michigan is a highly readable and outstanding addition to the scholarship on the development and accomplishments of the University of Michigan Medical School.' - Mindy Schwartz, University of Chicago
£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc The Urge
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£13.06
