History of medicine Books
Fordham University Press Imagistic Care
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Lisa Stevenson | vii Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries: Old Age, Intimate Others, and Care Lone Grøn and Cheryl Mattingly | 1 The Gift: An Imagistic Critical Phenomenology Cheryl Mattingly | 31 Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds: Being Old and Kyrgyz in the Absence of the Young Maria Louw | 59 “Yeah . . . Yeah”: Imagistic Signatures and Responsive Events in a Danish Dementia Ward Lone Grøn | 83 On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness, and Sociality in Life with Dementia Rasmus Dyring | 109 Together Apart: Fence Work in Landscapes of Relationality, Old Age, and Care in the Ik Mountains Lotte Meinert | 137 Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch Harmandeep Kaur Gill | 163 Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte | 187 The Staircase: The Ethics of “Transcendence and Height” in Welfare Care Helle Sofie Wentzer | 209 The Drawing Underneath Maria Speyer | 229 Afterword: These Images Burn Robert Desjarlais | 251 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265
£81.90
University of Hawai'i Press Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan
Book SynopsisIn this diverse and compelling collection, an international group of scholars analyzes the historical connections between Buddhism and healing in medieval China and Japan. They focus on the transnationally conveyed aspects of Buddhist healing traditions as they moved across geographic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.
£60.00
University of Hawai'i Press Imperatives of Care Women and Medicine in
Book SynopsisPlaces women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. This study outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women's experiences as health practitioners and patients.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Kingdom of the Sick
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£23.96
University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Medicine
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£36.86
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Healing with Herbs and Rituals A Mexican
Book SynopsisDiscussing 'curanderismo' and the practice of herbalists, this book focuses on individual healers and their procedures and traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. The product of centuries of experience in Mexico, influenced by the Moors, Judeo-Christians, and Aztecs, this work includes use of items such as lemon and objects such as keys.Table of ContentsIntroduction; A Brief History of Curanderismo; The Curandero; Ailments; The Rituals; Folk Beliefs; Don Pedrito Jaramillo; Nino Fidencio; Teresita; Modern Curanderos; Fusing Traditional and Modern Medicine; Further Reading Pertaining to Curanderismo; Green Medicine; A Brief History of Green Medicine; Where to Get the herbs; Preparing Herbs for Use; A Few Cautions; Important Terms; Keeping Green Medicine Alive; Further Reading Pertaining to Green Medicine; Glossary of Herbs; Index.
£15.26
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Mexico in the Time of Cholera
Book SynopsisThis captivating study tells Mexico's best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic centre and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.
£26.96
Brigham Young University Press Medical Aphorisms
Book SynopsisMaimonides, one of the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism. Medical Aphorisms consists of 1,500 maxims compiled by Maimonides from the treatises of Galen, the ancient Greek physician. Second of six volumes, this work provides insights into the work of Galen and the world of medieval medicine.
£60.75
Brigham Young University Press On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the
Book SynopsisMarks the Arabic manuscript with English translation that has been available to a modern audience in any form.
£68.40
Brigham Young University Press Medical Aphorisms
Book SynopsisCovers treatises sixteen to twenty-one. This title includes central subjects of these treatises such as women's diseases, physical exercise, bathing, foods, and the consumption of drugs.
£64.12
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Hildegard of Bingen On Natural Philosophy and
Book SynopsisMedieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise.Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook;it is a densely layered work woven together from diverse threads. It begins with a chapter on cosmology which leads to consideration of the human being as a small-scale copy of the universe. From here the focus shifts to the diseases and disorders which afflict human beings. The sections on treatment which follow provide information on medieval pharmacology and herbal healing. The text discusses the differences between male and female, human sexuality, embryology, sleep and dreams, signs predicting death or survival, astrological influences.The Introduction sketches Hildegard's life and career, and describes the cultural context with emphasis on medieval medicine. The Interpretive Essay discusses the selections presented in translation and alerts the reader to the benefits as well as the limits of medieval health care. MARGRET BERGER, formerly Associate Professor in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies [German] at Simon Fraser University, has specialised in medieval German literature and Romance philology.Table of ContentsChronological sketch; introduction - Hildegard of Bingen, life and works, visionary writing, the cultural context; translations from "Beate Hildegardis Cause et Cure" ("Blessed Hildegard's Cause and Cure") - the creation of the world, the cosmos and its components, macrocosm and microcosm, elements and humours, Adam, embryology, human sexuality, complexion and aptitude, complexional differences, sleep and dreams, waking, disorders and diseases, menstruation, conception and pregnancy, childbirth and infancy, regimen of health, bloodletting, bathing, nutritional disorders, digestive-system disorders, disorders of the skin, fevers, treatment, diagnostic and prognostic signs, lunar prognostication; interpretive essay.
£19.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen
Book SynopsisAn investigation into the effects of leprosy in one of the major towns in medieval France, illuminating urban, religious and medical culture at the time.Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Rouen was one of the greatest cities in Western Europe. The effective capital of the 'Angevin Empire' between 1154 and 1204 and thereafter a leading city in the realm of the Capetian and Valois kings of France, it experienced substantial growth, the emergence of communal government and the ravages of plague and the Hundred Years' War. This book examines the impact of leprosy upon Rouen during this period,and the key role played by charity in the society and religious culture of the city and its hinterland. Based upon extensive archival research, and focusing in particular on Rouen's leper houses, it offers a new understanding ofresponses to disease and disability in medieval Europe. It charts how attitudes towards lepers, and perceptions of their disease, changed over time, explores the relationship between leprosy, charity and practices of piety, and considers how leprosy featured in growing concerns about public health. It also sheds important new light on the roles and experiences of women, as both charitable patrons and leprosy sufferers, and on medical practice and practitioners in medieval France. Elma Brenner is Specialist in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine at the Wellcome Library, London.Table of ContentsIntroduction: leprosy, charity and Rouen Rouen's principal leper house: Mont-aux-Malades and its endowment Charity and community at Mont-aux-Malades Rouen's other leper houses: institutions, gender and status Leprosy and the medical world of Rouen Leprosy and the religious culture of Rouen Conclusion Appendix 1: A note on sources Appendix 2: Summary list of charters and other documents relating to leprosy in Rouen, c. 1100-c. 1500 Bibliography
£76.00
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Emil von Behring Infectious Disease Immunology
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£62.90
FARMS (imprint of Brigham Young University) Medical Aphorisms
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£68.40
Zone Books The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence
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£19.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Science Technology and Medicine in
Book SynopsisA Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives.Table of ContentsVolume I Contributor Biographies xi Abbreviations xix List of Figures and Maps xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Physics and Cosmogony 11 1 The Creation and Destruction of the World 13Andrew D. Gregory 2 Matter 29Daniel W. Graham 3 Motion and Energy 43Jean De Groot 4 Nature and the Divine 60Svetla Slaveva-Griffin Part II The Mathematical Sciences 77 5 Mathematics 79Reviel Netz 6 Astronomy 96Andrew D. Gregory 7 Astrology 114Kocku von Stuckrad 8 Ancient Optics: Theories and Problems of Vision 130Philip Thibodeau 9 Hydrostatics and Pneumatics in Antiquity 145Matteo Valleriani 10 The Science of Harmonics and Music Theory in Ancient Greece 16Sophie Gibson Part III E arth Sciences 179 11 Hydrology: Ocean, Rivers, and Other Waterways 181Georgia L. Irby 12 Classical Geology and the Mines of the Greeks and Romans 197Paul T. Craddock 13 Greco-Egyptian and Byzantine Alchemy 217Matteo Martelli 14 Meteorology 232Liba Taub 15 Geography 247Duane W. Roller Part IV L ife Sciences 263 16 Greek and Roman Botany 26M. Eleanor Irwin 17 Zoology 281Tiberiu Popa 18 "Ecology" in the ancient Mediterranean 296Georgia L. Irby, Robin McCall, and Anita Radini 19 The Failure of Evolutionary Thinking in Antiquity 313Devin Henry 20 Embryology 329James Wilberding Part V Healing and the Human Body 343 21 Anatomy and Physiology 345Julius Rocca 22 Gynecology 360Lauren Caldwell 23 Surgery 371Frédéric Le BlayTranslated by Todd Black 24 Physicians and "Schools" 386Molly Jones-Lewis 25 Pharmacy 402Molly Jones-Lewis 26 Magic, Curses, and Healing 418Andrew D. Gregory 27 Healing Shrines 434Georgia Petridou 28 Regimen and Athletic Training 450Jason König 29 Epidemiology and Pathology 465Efthymia Nikita, Anna Lagia, and Sevi Triantaphyllou 30 Psychology and Physiognomics 483Arnaud Zucker 31 Anthropology: Knowledge of Man 500Gordon Campbell VOLUME II Abbreviations xi List of Figures and Maps xv Part VI Food Sciences 517 32 Greek and Roman Agriculture 519Philip Thibodeau 33 Animal Husbandry 533Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. 34 Oil and Wine Production 550Rafael Frankel 35 Cooking and Baking Technology 570John Paulas 36 Food Storage Technology 587Robert I. Curtis 37 Culinary and Medicinal Uses of Wine and Olive Oil 605John F. Donahue 38 Nutrition 618John F. Donahue Part VII T echnology of Human Life 633 39 Greek Public and Religious Architecture 635John R. Senseney 40 Greek Domestic Architecture 656Bradley A. Ault 41 Greek Interior Decoration: Materials and Technology in the Art of Cosmesis and Display 672Hariclia Brecoulaki 42 Roman Monumental and Public Architecture 693Duane W. Roller 43 Roman Domestic Architecture 711Nathalie de Haan 44 Roman Interior Design 730Sarah Lepinski 45 Textile Technology 747Ellen Harlizius-Klück 46 Urban Infrastructure in the Roman World 768Klaus GreweTranslated by Johanna K. Sandrock 47 Siegeworks and Fortifications 784Raffaele D'Amato 48 Arms and Weapons 801Raffaele D'Amato Part VIII Travel 817 49 Greek and Roman Cartography 819Georgia L. Irby 50 Land Transport and Vehicles 836Georges Raepsaet 51 Navigation and the Art of Sailing 854Georgia L. Irby 52 Ships and Boats 870Julian Whitewright Part IX Telling Time 889 53 Greek Calendars 891Laura Gawlinski 54 Roman Calendars 906Robert Hannah 55 Time-Telling Devices 923Robert Hannah Part X Synthesis and Response 941 56 The Crossroads of Hellenistic and Sanskrit Science 943Tejas S. Aralere 57 Roman Responses to Greek Science and Scholarship as a Cultural and Political Phenomenon 958Thorsten Fögen 58 Scientific Encyclopedias 973Katerina Oikonomopoulou 59 Translation and Transmission of Ancient Scientific Texts 988Sonja Brentjes 60 The Reception of Greco-Roman Science in the Renaissance: Assimilation(s), Transformation(s), Rejection, Hybridization 1009Roberto Lo Presti Appendix: Major Writers And Thinkers 1023 General Index 1029 Index of Authors, Thinkers, and Primary Sources 1049 Index of Toponyms 1061
£308.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Book SynopsisUtilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Abbreviations x Acknowledgments xii Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 1 1 Medicine as Science 11 2 Who Did What to Whom? 43 3 The Politics of Medicine 56 4 Medicine as Literature 89 5 Medicine and Philosophy 118 6 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 130 7 Uruk Medical Commentaries 141 8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161 Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168 Notes 177 References 202 Subject Index 211 Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217 Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220
£23.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Science Technology and Medicine in
Book SynopsisA Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications anTable of ContentsContributor Biographies xi Abbreviations xix List of Figures and Maps xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Physics and Cosmogony 11 1 The Creation and Destruction of the World 13Andrew D. Gregory 2 Matter 29Daniel W. Graham 3 Motion and Energy 43Jean De Groot 4 Nature and the Divine 60Svetla Slaveva-Griffin Part II The Mathematical Sciences 77 5 Mathematics 79Reviel Netz 6 Astronomy 96Andrew D. Gregory 7 Astrology 114Kocku von Stuckrad 8 Ancient Optics: Theories and Problems of Vision 130Philip Thibodeau 9 Hydrostatics and Pneumatics in Antiquity 145Matteo Valleriani 10 The Science of Harmonics and Music Theory in Ancient Greece 161Sophie Gibson Part III Earth Sciences 179 11 Hydrology: Ocean, Rivers, and Other Waterways 181Georgia L. Irby 12 Classical Geology and the Mines of the Greeks and Romans 197Paul T. Craddock 13 Greco-Egyptian and Byzantine Alchemy 217Matteo Martelli 14 Meteorology 232Liba Taub 15 Geography 247Duane W. Roller Part IV Life Sciences 263 16 Greek and Roman Botany 265M. Eleanor Irwin 17 Zoology 281Tiberiu Popa 18 “Ecology” in the ancient Mediterranean 296Georgia L. Irby, Robin McCall, and Anita Radini 19 The Failure of Evolutionary Thinking in Antiquity 313Devin Henry 20 Embryology 329James Wilberding Part V Healing and the Human Body 343 21 Anatomy and Physiology 345Julius Rocca 22 Gynecology 360Lauren Caldwell 23 Surgery 371Frédéric Le Blay Translated by Todd Black 24 Physicians and “Schools” 386Molly Jones‐Lewis 25 Pharmacy 402Molly Jones‐Lewis 26 Magic, Curses, and Healing 418Andrew D. Gregory 27 Healing Shrines 434Georgia Petridou 28 Regimen and Athletic Training 450Jason König 29 Epidemiology and Pathology 465Efthymia Nikita, Anna Lagia, and Sevi Triantaphyllou 30 Psychology and Physiognomics 483Arnaud Zucker 31 Anthropology: Knowledge of Man 500Gordon Campbell Part VI Food Sciences 517 32 Greek and Roman Agriculture 519Philip Thibodeau 33 Animal Husbandry 533Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. 34 Oil and Wine Production 550Rafael Frankel 35 Cooking and Baking Technology 570John Paulas 36 Food Storage Technology 587Robert I. Curtis 37 Culinary and Medicinal Uses of Wine and Olive Oil 605John F. Donahue 38 Nutrition 618John F. Donahue Part VII Technology of Human Life 633 39 Greek Public and Religious Architecture 635John R. Senseney 40 Greek Domestic Architecture 656Bradley A. Ault 41 Greek Interior Decoration: Materials and Technology in the Art of Cosmesis and Display 672Hariclia Brecoulaki 42 Roman Monumental and Public Architecture 693Duane W. Roller 43 Roman Domestic Architecture 711Nathalie de Haan 44 Roman Interior Design 730Sarah Lepinski 45 Textile Technology 747Ellen Harlizius‐Klück 46 Urban Infrastructure in the Roman World 768Klaus Grewe, Translated by Johanna K. Sandrock 47 Siegeworks and Fortifications 784Raffaele D’Amato 48 Arms and Weapons 801Raffaele D’Amato Part VIII Travel 817 49 Greek and Roman Cartography 819Georgia L. Irby 50 Land Transport and Vehicles 836Georges Raepsaet 51 Navigation and the Art of Sailing 854Georgia L. Irby 52 Ships and Boats 870Julian Whitewright Part IX Telling Time 889 53 Greek Calendars 891Laura Gawlinski 54 Roman Calendars 906Robert Hannah 55 Time-Telling Devices 923Robert Hannah Part X Synthesis and Response 941 56 The Crossroads of Hellenistic and Sanskrit Science 943Tejas S. Aralere 57 Roman Responses to Greek Science and Scholarship as a Cultural and Political Phenomenon 958Thorsten Fögen 58 Scientific Encyclopedias 973Katerina Oikonomopoulou 59 Translation and Transmission of Ancient Scientific Texts 988Sonja Brentjes 60 The Reception of Greco‐Roman Science in the Renaissance: Assimilation(s), Transformation(s), Rejection, Hybridization 1009Roberto Lo Presti Appendix: Major Writers And Thinkers 1023 General Index 1029 Index of Authors, Thinkers, and Primary Sources 1049 Index of Toponyms 1061
£46.50
Palgrave Macmillan New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies
Book SynopsisThis book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Bridging the Divide: Literature and Medicine - Stephanie M. Hilger.- 2. Reading and Writing One’s Way to Wellness: The History of Bibliotherapy and Scriptotherapy - Janella Moy.- 3. Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades - Anne Hudson Jones.- 4. Intellectual Cosmopolitanism as Stewardship in Medical Humanities and Undergraduate Writing Pedagogy - Lisa DeTora.- 6. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on “A Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality” But Were Afraid to Ask - Jennifer Hellwarth and Ronald Mumme.- 7. Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism - Ronald Schleifer, Jerry Vannatta, and Casey Hester.- 8. Mind, Breath, and Voice in Chaucer’s Romance Writing - Corinne Saunders.- 9. Affect and the Organs in the Anatomical Poems of Paul Celan: Encountering Medical Discourse - Vasiliki Dimoula.- 10. Reading the DSM-5 through Literature: The Value of Subjective Knowing - Christine Marks.- 11.Anecdotal Evidence: What Patient Poets Provide - Marilyn McEntyre.- 12. “L’Œuil Gauche Barré:” Migraine, Scotoma, and Allied Disorders in Emile Zola’s Novels - Janice Zehentbauer.- 13. Corporeal Abnormality as Intellectual and Cultural Capital: Jean Fernel’s Pathologiae Libri, Ambroise Paré’s Monstres et Prodiges, and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais - Yuri Kondratiev.- 14.The Primacy of Touch: Helen Keller’s Embodiment of Language - Sun Jai Kim.- 15. Unsound Elegy: Breast Cancer in The Dying Animal by Philip Roth and Elegy by Isabel Coixet - Federica Frediani. 16. Reading Colonial Dis-ease/Disease in Hong Kong Modernist Fiction - C.T. Au.- 17. Anandibai Joshi’s Passage to America (and More): The Making of a Hindu Lady Doctor - Sandhya Shetty.- 18. The Introduction of Moxibustion and Acupuncture in Europe from the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century - Giovanni Borriello.- 19. Midwives and Spin Doctors: The Rhetoric of Authority in Early Modern French Medicine - Ophelie Chavaroche.- 20. The Changing Face of Quack Doctors: Satirizing Mountebanks and Physicians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England - Genice Ngg.- 21. Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh: Writing Narratives of Healthy Citizenship - Martin Willis.- 22. Doctor-Writers: Anton Chekhov’s Medical Stories - Carl Fisher.- 23. Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky’s Medical Plays: Chekhov in Chicago - Maria Pia Pagani.
£104.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Book SynopsisUtilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses Trade Review“Ancient Babylonian Medicineis an important and fascinating book which not only provides a much needed introduction to the theory and practice of medicine in ancient Mesopotamia but also makes a significant contribution to the study of ancient Mesopotamian scholarship. It is clearly and elegantly written, nicely illustrated, and well produced.” (Aestimatio, 1 June 2013) "This book is a rare achievement: as a scholarly work, it provides an important addition to the history of medicine; for the general reader, it is a fascinating introduction to the theory and practice of medicine in Mesopotamian society." (Antiquity Reviews, 2011) "In sum, Geller has written a remarkably useful and thoughtful volume on what is an elusive topic. Assyriologists and historians of medicine will gain much from reading this work and it will certainly become required reading for the discipline." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 19 August 2011) "Markham J. Geller brings a welcome, dual expertise now rather rare in medical history (he is an MD as well as a Rabbi and Professor of Semitic Languages), and some of his previous studies of Talmudic texts led him to the discovery of medical loan-words that turned out to be embedded Akka-dian dating from the period known as the "Babylonian Captivity". (Times Literary Supplement, 21 January 2011) "He appends a commentary probably composed by the Uruk scholar Iqisa, who flourished in the latter part of the fourth century BC; the transcription, and possibly the translation, is from a 1924 edition by Campbell Thompson." (SciTech Book News, December 2010)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Abbreviations x Acknowledgments xii Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 1 1 Medicine as Science 11 2 Who Did What to Whom? 43 3 The Politics of Medicine 56 4 Medicine as Literature 89 5 Medicine and Philosophy 118 6 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 130 7 Uruk Medical Commentaries 141 8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161 Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168 Notes 177 References 202 Subject Index 211 Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217 Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220
£30.35
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Spaces Objects and Identities in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting examples of research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which question the conventional boundaries of medical history.Trade Review"Reading these pages, we realise how medical historians have often neglected to consider some important spaces where medicine was practised, focusing instead on canonical settings such as hospitals, universities and anatomical theatres. In paying attention to other spaces, all the articles add new meaning to the concept of medical practice. … An important item for scholars interested in revitalising the field of the history of medicine." (Metascience, March 2009)Table of ContentsIntroduction (Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, University of London and David Gentilcore, University of Leicester). 1. Miscarriages of Apothecary Justice: Un-separate Spaces of Work and Family in Early Modern Rome (Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University). 2. Pharmacies as Centres of Communication in Early Modern Venice (Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck, University of London). 3. Women, Wax and Anatomy in the ‘Century of Things’ (Lucia Dacome, Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS) and University of Toronto). 4. Medical Competence, Anatomy and the Polity in Seventeenth-Century Rome (Silvia De Renzi, The Open University). 5. Malpighi and the Holy Body: Medical Experts and Miraculous Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Gianna Pomata, University of Bologna). Index.
£19.71
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Autism
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to fully explore the history of autism. Through in-depth discussions with leading professionals and pioneers working in the field, A History of Autism provides an unprecedented insight into the historical changes in the perception of autism and approaches to its treatment.Trade Review"Another fascinating book on autism. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject: those that have a person with autism in their family, professionals and academics, and anyone in general.... In my opinion, Feinstein has made a significant effort to be impartial, something that I am sure it has not been easy." (Iautism, 2011) "This is a comprehensive history, charting thinking, practice and theories from the late 1930s to the present day.... Recommended - a much-needed addition to the autism library." (Communication Magazine, 1 April 2011) "Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, professionals." (Choice, 1 April 2011) "Feinstein offers one of the first truly comprehensive overviews of the history of autism research...culminating with a discussion of the projected future of autism research. He interviewed dozens of researchers and prominent autistic people in several countries, in addition to consulting numerous primary sources to compile this authoritative text. Feinstein traces the condition from before it was known as autism through the present day, and in so doing, methodically dissects both the parental blame hysteria that gripped the 1980s and the explosion of autism awareness and controversy in the twenty-first century." (Asperger's Association of New England Journal, Fall/Winter 2010) "This is a much needed book on the history of autism. What sets this book apart from the others is the description of the hypotheses about the disorder back when Dr. Kanner and Dr. Asperger were first writing about their unique discoveries. It provides readers with a much needed understanding of the disorder from the past as well as the present." (Doody's, September 2010) "This book is more than a collection of facts; it's also a detailed account of often-fierce controversy and professional rivalry.... Feinstein's book is a fascinating and indispensable record of the journey so far." (Special Children, 2010) "In his History of Autism, Adam Feinstein has documented in an entertaining and yet exacting way, the evolving history of how our present-day ideas about autism reflect the personalities and interests of key individuals, who played critical roles in our understanding of this perplexing symptom complex. He has been to interview them, all over the world, and draws some fascinating responses to his questions. It is particularly pleasing that he managed to gather the material for his review before the most elderly among the pioneers passed away, as several have done within the past 2 or 3 years." (Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2011)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword by Dame Stephanie Shirley xv Introduction 1 1 The Two Great Pioneers 9 2 The 1950s: The Seeds of Understanding 37 3 Blaming the Parents 54 4 The 1960s: The Parents Fight Back 76 5 The Two Teaching Pioneers 117 6 The 1970s: Major Steps Forward 139 7 Definition, Diagnosis, and Assessment: The History of the Tool 165 8 The 1980s and 1990s: Theories and Concepts 203 9 Autism in the Developing Nations 233 10 Where the Future Lies 265 Notes 298 Bibliography 339 Index 367
£36.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Autism
Book SynopsisThis unique book is the first to fully explore the history of autism - from the first descriptions of autistic-type behaviour to the present day. Features in-depth discussions with leading professionals and pioneers to provide an unprecedented insight into the historical changes in the perception of autism and approaches to it Presents carefully chosen case studies and the latest findings in the field Includes evidence from many previously unpublished documents and illustrations Interviews with parents of autistic children acknowledge the important contribution they have made to a more profound understanding of this enigmatic condition Trade Review"Another fascinating book on autism. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject: those that have a person with autism in their family, professionals and academics, and anyone in general.... In my opinion, Feinstein has made a significant effort to be impartial, something that I am sure it has not been easy." (Iautism, 2011) "This is a comprehensive history, charting thinking, practice and theories from the late 1930s to the present day.... Recommended - a much-needed addition to the autism library." (Communication Magazine, 1 April 2011) "Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, professionals." (Choice, 1 April 2011) "Feinstein offers one of the first truly comprehensive overviews of the history of autism research...culminating with a discussion of the projected future of autism research. He interviewed dozens of researchers and prominent autistic people in several countries, in addition to consulting numerous primary sources to compile this authoritative text. Feinstein traces the condition from before it was known as autism through the present day, and in so doing, methodically dissects both the parental blame hysteria that gripped the 1980s and the explosion of autism awareness and controversy in the twenty-first century." (Asperger's Association of New England Journal, Fall/Winter 2010) "This is a much needed book on the history of autism. What sets this book apart from the others is the description of the hypotheses about the disorder back when Dr. Kanner and Dr. Asperger were first writing about their unique discoveries. It provides readers with a much needed understanding of the disorder from the past as well as the present." (Doody's, September 2010) "This book is more than a collection of facts; it's also a detailed account of often-fierce controversy and professional rivalry.... Feinstein's book is a fascinating and indispensable record of the journey so far." (Special Children, 2010) "In his History of Autism, Adam Feinstein has documented in an entertaining and yet exacting way, the evolving history of how our present-day ideas about autism reflect the personalities and interests of key individuals, who played critical roles in our understanding of this perplexing symptom complex. He has been to interview them, all over the world, and draws some fascinating responses to his questions. It is particularly pleasing that he managed to gather the material for his review before the most elderly among the pioneers passed away, as several have done within the past 2 or 3 years." (Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2011)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword by Dame Stephanie Shirley xv Introduction 1 1 The Two Great Pioneers 9 2 The 1950s: The Seeds of Understanding 37 3 Blaming the Parents 54 4 The 1960s: The Parents Fight Back 76 5 The Two Teaching Pioneers 117 6 The 1970s: Major Steps Forward 139 7 Definition, Diagnosis, and Assessment: The History of the Tool 165 8 The 1980s and 1990s: Theories and Concepts 203 9 Autism in the Developing Nations 233 10 Where the Future Lies 265 Notes 298 Bibliography 339 Index 367
£89.96
Johns Hopkins University Press Godor Gorilla
Book SynopsisEngagingly written and deftly argued, God-or Gorilla offers original insights into the role of images in communicating-and miscommunicating-scientific ideas to the lay public.Trade ReviewThis highly readable book is valuable as it stands. It is also timely. The 1920s shaped pictures of evolution, and of evolutionary debate, that are still in our heads. As biologists work with illustrators to communicate science, and creationists attack textbook icons, it is helpful to reflect on the struggles of that decisive decade. -- Nick Hopwood Nature Engagingly written, well illustrated, and refreshingly free of the theory-driven jargon that often diverts attention from the task at hand, God-or Gorilla is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Scopes trial, the continuing controversy over the teaching of evolution, and the role of expertise in American society. -- George E. Webb Journal of American History A shining example of interdisciplinary American Studies at its very best. Choice Clark's investigation of the images of evolution in the 1920s is a wonderful window into the place of science in the United States and how the cultural concerns of an era can shape scientific activity. -- Charles A. Israel American Historical Review Perceptive and enjoyable book. -- Warren D. Allmon American Paleontologist Significant contribution[s] to this broad interdisciplinary area, illuminating the ways in which ideas about organic evolution were contested, and charting the processes by which eugenics acquired an established place in American political and social life. -- Robin Vandome Journal of American Studies The value of this book, which is considerable, lies in its careful depiction of the scientific and cultural landscape within which the 'evolution wars' of the 1920s took place. -- A. Bowdoin Van Riper Isis Clark's choice of the 1920s is perfectly suited for her brilliant study of evolutionary imagery, for the decade saw significant social, economic and political changes along with growing tensions over the question of where humans came from. British Journal for the History of Science Clark's study offers a novel perspective of the history of human evolutionary research and popular culture and is a valuable contribution to scholarship in this area. -- Matthew R. Goodrum Annals of Science A refreshing picture of the origins of the evolution-creation dispute, and in it we can see the germ of the outlooks and arguments that largely still motivate creationism today. -- Rudolf A. Raff Evolution & Development An exceedingly interesting contribution to the history of anthropology. -- Jonathan Marks American Ethnologist Clark's study has additional significance as a contribution to intellectual history. Readers will find familiar themes of evolution-natural selection, chance and design, and missing links-and the book shows the fate of these issues when they entered the public arena. -- J. David Hoeveler History: Reviews of New BooksTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Caveman and the Strenuous Life2. The Museum in the Modern Babylon3. Nineteen Twenty-two or Thereabouts4. Saving the Phenomena5. Unlikely Infidels6. Stooping to Conquer, and a Hall Full of Elephants7. The Pictures in Our Heads8. Scientists and the Monkey Trial9. Redeeming the Caveman, and the Irreverent Funny PagesConclusionNotesIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press The Inevitable Hour
Book SynopsisA frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.Trade ReviewA powerful assessment of medicine's involvement with death and dying: a history highly recommended for any medical or ethical issues holding. Midwest Book Review Few libraries specializing in the history of medicine will not find this a valuable book to include in their collections. Watermark This is an important book that sets current debates over end-of-life care in their historical context, and reminds readers of the numerous historical decisions that shape the current situation. Choice Abel's book is a strong and welcome addition to the historiography of death and dying. Journal of American History An invaluable contribution. Abel does an admirable job uncovering a topic that was mostly absent in the medical literature. She successfully highlights a striking consequence of medicine's curative paradigm while also recovering the vital work that family and faith performed to fill the gap left by medical professionals in the twentieth century. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Lively and engaging. The Inevitable Hour offers a sensitive, patient-centered view of end-of-life experiences. Abel's gift for biography, of both the eminent and the obscure, provides a glimpse into a rich yet private world. It makes an important contribution to American medical history and to our understanding of human responses to suffering and adversity. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Through her in-depth analyses of hundreds of letters, articles, and books from the mid-eighteenth century to 1965 in the United States, the author of this book provides a very sobering and enlightening perspective on the perennial challenge of caring for the dying and the history of medical science's own avoidance of it even while trying to treat it. Historian The US way of dying is costly, conflicted, and confused, and apparently has long been so, according to Emily Abel's deeply researched and carefully argued The Inevitable Hour ... The book is richly researched with an impressive range of documentation. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Emily Abel's thoroughly researched book steps into [a] broad historical narrative and gives context, detail, and definition. Reviews in American History While the work's narrative structure makes it ideal to read as a whole, each chapter could be excerpted in both upper- and lower-level classes in history, health policy, bioethics and religion. The work's accessible style makes it accommodating to undergraduates and laypeople, while its rigorous, inventive methods and ambitious claims ensure its value for scholars... Ultimately, Abel's book is of great importance to not only historical scholarship but also contemporary bioethics and health policy. -- Harold Braswell Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Good Death at Home2. Medical Professionals (Sometimes) Step In3. Cultivating Detachment, Sidetracking Care4. Institutionalizing the Incurable5. "All Our Dread and Apprehension"6. "Nothing More to Do"7. A Place to Die8. The Sacred and the SpiritualConclusionNotesIndex
£21.38
Johns Hopkins University Press The Anatomy of Blackness
Book SynopsisPenetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves.Trade ReviewThis is an important contribution to an important topic. But it is also a model of how intellectual history should be done. Curran moves well beyond the parade of Big Thinkers that have long dominated the history of ideas. He reads them, to be sure, but he also reads what they read. By this technique, he moves deeper and deeper into the culture of ethnography, anatomy, and slavery in search of the origins and forms of 'Blackness.' -- Marshall Poe New Books in History Curran's approach to intellectual history is an exciting one that transcends the oft-written biographies and other author-centered discussions. His focus on trends and his immersion in the writings of the time creates an accurate rather than anachronistic mindset, which is truly useful for historians. -- Sarah Goodwin Alpata: A Journal of History A definitive statement on the complex, painful, and richly revealing topic of how the major figures of the French Enlightenment reacted to the enslavement of black Africans, often to their discredit. The fields of race studies and of Enlightenment studies are more than ready to embrace the type of analysis in which Curran engages, and all the more so in that his book is beautifully written and illustrated. -- Mary McAlpin Symposium A highly intelligent book on an important topic. The breadth of Andrew Curran's knowledge about the Enlightenment is astonishing... The book makes the convincing point not only that Africa is a major focus in the Enlightenment's imagination, but also that natural history and anthropology are central to understanding not only its scientific agenda, but also its humanitarian politics. -- Carl Niekerk Centaurus This engrossing, comprehensive study traces 18th-century European thought on anatomical blackness of Africans... Curran's ability to dissect and explain complicated arguments of the period's major thinkers is impressive. Choice Curran's Francotropism and medical background enable him to develop insights that should prove important to the ongoing transnationalization and discipline-blurring of literary and cultural studies. -- Ian Finseth Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment This study reveals with striking clarity the complex interaction of the science of human difference in this period with other strands of Enlightenment thought as well as the practices of (French) slave trading and colonial slavery. -- Carolyn Vellenga Berman H-France A major contribution to the study of the uses of natural history, the presence and absence of universalism in the Enlightenment, and the origins of modern racial thought. -- Martin S. Staum H-France Curran has produced a powerful argument about how Europeans defined not only Africans but themselves in the early modern period; about how depictions of the 'other' furnished slavers and planters with the necessary intellectual justifications for slavery; about how natural science has the (frightening) ability to define both body and soul. -- Jeremy L. Caradonna H-France The Anatomy of Blackness is an intense and challenging reading experience, but one that certainly repays the effort. -- Stephen Kenny Reviews in History The rise of racial science in the late eighteenth century has become a flourishing field of investigation over the past twenty or so years. Andrew S. Curran's The Anatomy of Blackness is a significant contribution to this scholarship... In trying to understand why these events unfolded so differently in each nation, Andrew Curran's study has greatly enlarged our knowledge of an emergent race science in "enlightened" France. -- Nicholas Hudson Bulletin of the History of Medicine This is a convincing piece of scholarship... a satisfying and clear analysis of how French writers (among other) constructed images of the African body that reflected, while often simultaneously silencing, the central role played by slavery in attracting European interest to the subject in the first place... This book will be read with interest and profit not only by scholars of the Enlightenment, but also those concerned with the history of racial thinking, slavery, the history of science, and Europe's engagement with the rest of the world. -- Rebecca Earle European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tissue Samples in the Land of ConjectureDefining le NègreThe New Africanist Discourse after 1740The Contexts of RepresentationRepresenting Africanist DiscourseAnatomizing the History of Blackness1. Paper Trails: Writing the African, 1450–1750The Early Africanists: The Episodic and the EpicRationalizing AfricaThe Birth of the Caribbean AfricanJean-Baptiste LabatLabat on AfricaProcessing the African Travelogue: Prévost's Histoire générale des voyagesRousseau's Afrique2. Sameness and Science, 1730–1750The Origin of Shared OriginsToward a "Scientific" MonogenesisHistoricizing the Human in an Era of Empiricism: The Role of the AlbinoCreating the BlafardBuffonian Monogenesis: The Nègre as SameBlackness Qualified: Breaking down the NègreThe Colonial African and the Rare Buffonian Je3. The Problem of Difference: Philosophes and the Processing of African "Ethnography," 1750–1775The "Symptoms" of Blackness: Africanist "Facts," 1750–1770Montesquieu and the "Refutation" of DifferenceThe Nagging Context of Montesquieu's Antislavery DiatribeVoltaire: The Philosophe as EssentialistVoltaire and the Albino of 1744Voltaire, the Nègre, and Human MerchandiseProcessing Africa and Africans in the EncyclopédieThe Preternatural History of Black African DifferenceTeaching Degeneration: Valmont de Bomare's Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle4. The Natural History of Slavery, 1770–1802The Hardening of Climate Theory and the Birth of New Racial Categories circa 1770–1785Toward a Human Biopolitics circa 1750–1770The Politics of Slavery in the EncyclopédieMercier and Saint-Lambert and the New Natural HistoryThe Synchretism of the 1770s: Grappling with "Nature's Mistreatment" of the NègreAnti-slavery Rhetoric in Raynal's Histoire des deux IndesThe Era of NegrophiliaEpilogue: The Natural History of the Noir in an Age of RevolutionCoda: Black Africans and the Enlightenment LegacyNotesWorks CitedIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers
Book SynopsisHow rabid dogs, the struggles to contain them, and their power over the public imagination intersected with New York City's rise to urban preeminence. Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of Mad dog! possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization. Focusing on a transformative era in medicine, politics, and urban society, Wang uses rabies to survey urban social geography, the place of domesticated animals in the nineteenth-century city, and the world of American medicine. Rabies, she demonstrates, provides an ideal vehicle for exploring physicians' ideas about therapeutics, disease pathology, and the body as well as the global flows of knowledge and therapeutics. Beyond the medical realmTrade ReviewJessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century.—Margaret Humphreys, MetascienceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Dogs, Humans, and the Uses of Urban SpaceChapter 2. Human and Non-Human Suffering: From Animal Possession to the Art of DyingChapter 3. Remedies and Materia Medica: Medical Authority, Political Culture, and EmpireChapter 4. The Lesion of Doom: Anatomical Tradition and the Problem of HydrophobiaChapter 5. A Tale of Three Laboratories: Rabies Vaccination and the Pasteurization of New York CityChapter 6. Dogs and the Making of the American State: The Politics of Animal ControlConclusionAppendix 1. Reports of Dog Bite Victims and Hydrophobia Deaths in the Greater New York City AreaAppendix 2. A Note on Primary Sources and MethodsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Aging Bones
Book SynopsisThe fascinating history in Aging Bones will appeal to students and scholars in the history of medicine, health policy, gerontology, endocrinology, and orthopedics, as well as anyone who has been diagnosed with osteoporosis.Trade ReviewA well-written and compelling book that should convince academic, student, lay and professional audiences alike that immersion in the history of a disease is indispensable to treating it. Social History of Medicine [ Aging Bones] illustrate[s] the disparate yet powerful components of chronic disease for understanding medical practices and policies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Grob's account is well written, clear and comprehensive in scope...should prove useful to any historian of medicine and will be especially valuable to historians interested in gerontology and women's health. IsisTable of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. History and Demography2. The Origins of a Diagnosis3. The Transformation of Osteoporosis4. Popularizing a Diagnosis5. Internationalizing Osteoporosis6. Therapeutic Expansion7. Osteoporosis Triumphant?NotesIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Generic
Book SynopsisGreene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care.Trade ReviewGreene's brilliant book is the first full-length monograph to trace the history of how Americans think about generics, and it is going to be the key reference for many years to come. Somatosphere An excellent and recommended history of how the generic drug market came to be. Library Journal Fascinating and thought-provoking. History Wire: Where the Past Comes Alive Dr. Greene's gripping and eye-opening accounts of the scientific, social, and political debates that happened along the way keep the reader hooked and engaged... [He] is both scholar and storyteller, interspersing fascinating historical narratives with complex scientific discussion. P&T Community Greene should be congratulated for bringing this subject to life-with a mix of anecdote, scholarship, and elegant prose. Lancet As Jeremy Greene lays out in his excellent book, the story of the generic drug industry is is far more complicated-and far more interesting than most of us might guess... [Greene] provides readers with a useful framework for understanding how we got to where we are and how we might apply the lessons of the past to the challenges we face today. Health Affairs Greene turns the concept of generic as 'ho-hum' on its head with this jam-packed survey of the effects culture, medicine, and politics have exerted on today's ubiquitous generic drugs for the last 50 years. Publishers Weekly Jeremy Greene's Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine fascinates because the very meaning of the key term 'generic' is so unstable. Every time the reader thinks they have a handle on its dimensions, another four open up. -- Joseph Dumit Somatosphere Greene's book is a dizzying historical-political-social-cultural account of the forms generic drugs have taken over past several decades. Somatosphere Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine comes from a physician and historian who offers a history of not just the development of generic drugs, but how they differ from the original. Within his examination are important insights on how drugs are made, what parts of a pill really matter, issues of therapeutic similarity and difference, and more. It's a wide-ranging history that embraces ethical, scientific, health, and economic issues and it provides insights on the history of generic drugs in America and the problems associated with scientific and medical changes in the public eye. The result is a survey that belongs in any health collection and many a general-interest holding. The Midwest Book Review This fine, stimulating, and entertaining book offers much food for thought. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Well written and informative... bring[s] to life a tangled web of competing interests. -- Phillip Broadwith Chemistry World A theoretical and empirical primer that explains the success and failure of generics and what it means to choose between generic and brand name drugs. Extensively researched and documented, Generic is the first book to chronicle the development of generics, and will probably be the key reference on the topic for some time... A book that should be read by anybody with a serious interest in contemporary healthcare. -- Debra Swoboda Sociology of Health and Illness The generic drug industry... has been glorified as the antidote to exorbitant drug prices, and vilified as the purveyor of poisonous (or at least less effective) counterfeit drugs. Yet in Generic, Jeremy Greene has a far more nuanced, and far more interested, tale to tell... Greene's vitally important book... explicitly asks us to consider how much the tensions concerning times and places examined in the book are the same as those we face today... or at least similar enough in ways that we should find relevant. The answer is, very much. -- Scott H. Podolsky Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Physician/historian Greene provides a thoroughly researched discussion about generic products derived from innovative or brand-name drugs, focusing on their "social, political, and cultural history"... Greene ably argues for generic by providing inside details about the drug approval process. Choice ... Generic is an excellent example of how to intelligently construct a modern material history, grounded in the logics of the everyday. Medical Anthropology Quarterly ... recommended reading for anyone interested in postwar developments in U.S. health care and for scholars and analysts of contemporary pharmaceutical politics. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Greene's book is a pioneering work. His study is particularly relevant for historians of medicine and health but will be of interest for readers from history and sociology of science, as well as other social scientists who specialize in drug regulation. IsisTable of ContentsPreface to the 2016 EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Same but Not the SamePart I. What's in a Name?Chapter 1. Ordering the World of CuresChapter 2. The Generic as Critique of the BrandPart II. No Such Thing as a Generic Drug?Chapter 3. Drugs AnonymousChapter 4. Origins of a Self- Effacing IndustryChapter 5. Generic SpecificityPart III. The Sciences of SimilarityChapter 6. Contests of EquivalenceChapter 7. The Significance of DifferencesPart IV. Laws of SubstitutionChapter 8. Substitution as Vice and VirtueChapter 9. Universal ExchangePart V. Paradoxes of Generic ConsumptionChapter 10. Liberating the Captive ConsumerChapter 11. Generic Consumption in the Clinic, Pharmacy, and SupermarketPart VI. The Generic AlternativeChapter 12. Science and Politics of the "Me- Too" DrugChapter 13. Preferred Drugs, Public and PrivateChapter 14. The Global GenericConclusion. The Crisis of SimilarityList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Cold War Deadly Fevers
Book SynopsisFollowing the story through the dwindling campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cueto raises questions relevant to today's international health campaigns against malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis.Trade ReviewWithout doubt, Cold War, Deadly Fevers is an important contribution to the expanding field of international health history. -- Diego Armus Isis This history of malaria eradication in Mexico reveals that there is no magic bullet. Rather, there is a need for 'holistic, persistent, flexible approaches' to fashion popular support for prevention programs and an integrated public health perspective 'that entails overcoming the culture of survival.' This thoroughly researched and clearly written book shines a light in the gloom. Doody's Review Service This is a valuable book for all public health professionals. Highly recommended. Choice A well-crafted and complex study that offers important lessons on the history of international health and foreign aid. One of the greatest strengths of this impressive work, however, is Cueto's insight into the motivations and attitudes of the people who created the program, those who implemented it, and those who were deemed its beneficiaries. -- Jonathan D. Ablard Hispanic American Historical Review Dr. Cueto's superbly well-informed exploration of malaria not only as a disease but as a social economic, and human problem makes his book required reading. -- Filiberto Malagon Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Raises questions highly relevant to today's international health campaigns to eradicate malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis... Well researched, conceptualized and executed. The work is a welcome and significant contribution to the field of the history of public health as well as a critical guide for public health practitioners who seek more beneficial global health paradigms. -- Alexandra Puerto Contra Corriente Should be compulsory reading for public health officials. -- Thomes P. Weber British Journal for the History ofScience This new work is a model of its kind. -- Christopher Abel Journal of Latin American Studies Cueto's book is significant in that it pushes scholars in several disciplines to acknowledge the power that health and disease have in reformulating our understanding of threats during the Cold War, and, notably, in our times. -- Gabriela Soto Laveaga Review of Policy Research As one might expect from a scholar of the standing of Marcos Cueto, this book is a richly documented work, presenting a solid argument and well-constructed ideas. It explores an interesting though neglected and at times misunderstood period in Mexican history, that of the Cold War. -- Natalia Priego Bulletin of Latin American Research Cueto, a distinguished and highly respected historian of medicine and public health, frames his concise, yet detailed, history of malaria eradication programmes in Mexico within a larger argument about the overall goals of, and approaches to, public health in the developing world, both past and present. -- Julia Rodriguez Global Public Health More than just a case study of the successes and failures of malaria eradication in Mexico, Cold War, Deadly Fevers suggests what might be done to improve public health in developing nations. -- Michael R. Hall Journal of Third World Studies Anyone with an interest in international development, especially in Latin America, and a belief that history holds important lessons for building sustainable efforts in international development, should read it. Cueto excels in analyzing historical processes at multiple scales, from the global, to the national, to the local. -- Eric D. Carter Geographical Review A meticulously researched, succinct, and artfully crafted narrative about malaria eradication in Mexico during the Cold War. -- Heather L. McCrea Journal of Historical Geography An excellent case study of the mid-twentieth-century multilateral campaign in Mexico to eradicate malaria. It skillfully places the Mexican effort in the context of international political history and health policy. It is essential reading for public health professionals and anyone interested in Mexican history, the history of medicine, or U.S. foreign policy. -- Ann Zulawski Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsFigures and TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources1. Introduction: The Burden of an InfectionThe Origins and Development of Malaria Control EffortsOrganizing Principles for This VolumePlan of the Book2. Global DesignsForeign Aid and the Cold WarInternational Health CooperationThe Encounter of International Health and PoliticsConcluding Thoughts3. National DecisionsMexican Politics and MedicineMexican Malaria ControlOrganizing Malaria EradicationThe Mexicanization of the Campaign4. Local ResponsesIntercultural ChallengesAnthropological CritiqueA Provincial Doctor RebelsIndigenous ResistanceA Campaign in Decline5. Conclusions: The Return of Malaria and the Culture of SurvivalMexico's Recent Experience with MalariaThe Lessons of Malaria Eradication: Patterns of Vertical Health ProgramsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity
Book SynopsisTheir long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care.Trade ReviewA succinct, thoughtful, well-written, and carefully argued assessment of Christian involvement with medical matters in the first five centuries of the common era... It is to Ferngren's credit that he has opened questions and explored them so astutely. 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. Journal of the American Medical Association In this superb work of historical and conceptual scholarship, Ferngren unfolds for the reader a cultural milieu of healing practices during the early centuries of Christianity... His arguments are always compelling and usually convincing. He shows how Christians lived out their faith as a positive healing and caring witness, boldly living out their Christianity as a persuasive alternative to the failed pagan responses to fellow human beings in need. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Readable and widely researched... an important book for mission studies and American Catholic movements, the book posits the question of what can take its place in today's challenging religious culture. Missiology: An International Review This is 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 Medical historians and historians interested in the classical age will welcome this well written book to their libraries. Medical practioners in every field with a strong interest in medical history will profit from reading it as well. Certainly, libraries at every medical university and graduate school will want this book. Doody's Review Service Well written and well researched. Catholic Insight The story that [Ferngren] tells is provocative for Christian readers who live in a culture of fear and who tremble at the thought of new pandemics. Christian Century We must be grateful for this closely argued book and the light it sheds on early Christian health care. Journal of Theological Studies Reading this book gives one the impression of discovering something new. One can see how some medical and social ideas were born, and how mutual relations between religion and medicine were developing. Religion [An] excellent and thought-provoking work. Medical History Ferngren writes in an engaging manner that will be especially attractive to physicians who do not have a background in theology or Church history. This book would be of great interest to any Christian physician or health-care professional who is interested in learning more about medicine at the time of Christ and its impact on Christianity and, perhaps more importantly, Christianity's impact on the care of the ill. Linacre Quarterly [An] excellent and thought-provoking work. -- Ildiko Csepregi Medical History A highly important investigation in medicine and healing in early Christianity. A book that every scholar of healing in early Christianity should read. Practical Matters Ferngren's approach and evidence are persuasive and a wonderful introduction to an element of early Christianity frequently overlooked, misunderstood, or both. Brethren Life and Thought A good book. Catholic Historical Review Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity, written with deep affection for the subject, is a rich study, important for any scholar interested in the emergence and development of medicine in the Christian society of late antiquity. IsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Methods and Approaches2. The Christian Reception of Greek Medicine3. Early Christian Views of the Etiology of Disease4. Christianity as a Religion of Healing5. The Basis of Christian Medical Philanthropy6. Health Care in the Early Church7. Some Concluding ObservationsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press A Time of Scandal
Book SynopsisPacked with vibrant characters-conniving friends, FBI agents, and rival politicians split by sectional and ideological interests as well as gamblers, revelers, and wronged wives-A Time of Scandal will appeal to anyone interested in political gossip, presidential politics, the Ohio Gang, and the 1920s.Trade Review[A] nuanced and well-documented exploration of the controversies around the early Veterans Bureau. ... A Time of Scandal is a multifaceted and strong account of an interesting time. Foreword Reviews Her colorful narrative makes a convincing case for Forbes' rehabilitation and, in light of other recent revisionist histories, a full reconsideration of an allegedly corrupt president and administration. An engaging argument for justice for a flawed but perhaps wrongfully disgraced civil servant. Kirkus Reviews Stevens offers a richly detailed account that portrays Forbes and Harding more favorably than most previous historians. Although aimed at scholars, general readers will be fascinated by the courtroom scenes and Forbes's rehabilitation during his two- year sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Library Journal Professor Rosemary Stevens has produced what is certainly the definitive work on Forbes in A Time of Scandal. NY Journal of Books Recomended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefacePart I. American DreamsChapter 1: Hidden Stories, Fateful MeetingsChapter 2: Washington, DC, March-April 1921Chapter 3: The Dream of Efficiency in Government Part II. Reality ChecksChapter 4: Harding's Flagship Program, the US Veterans Bureau Chapter 5: High Stakes: Controlling Veterans HospitalsChapter 6: Hype, Hooch and the Art of the Con Part III. Winds of ChangeChapter 7: Taking a Friend on a Business Trip West Chapter 8: Harding Resurgent: White House versus ForbesChapter 9: Transitions in 1923: Forbes's Resignation to Harding's Death Part IV. Scandal TimeChapter 10: Coolidge, Common Cause and the Politics of Scandal Chapter 11: Rush to Judgment: A Senate Committee Investigates Forbes Chapter 12: Scandal Weavers: Scripting a Story of Rogues, Graft and Greed.Chapter 13: The Trial of Charles R. Forbes Part V. Aftermath Chapter 14: Making the Best of It Chapter 15: Charlie and Bob, Masks and Mirrors Coda AcknowledgmentsTime Line Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Science and Religion A Historical Introduction
Book SynopsisWeissenbacher, Stephen P. Weldon, and Tomoko YoshidaTrade ReviewThe second edition of Gary Ferngren’s edited volume, Science and religion: a historical introduction, addresses a real need in the historiography and pedagogy of science and religion . . . the additions to the second edition of Ferngren’s Science and religion constitute a significant improvement.—Metascience. . . there are plenty of quality contributions here to justify purchase by those looking for an overview of the field or as use within an undergraduate classroom . . .—Reading ReligionThis second edition is more expansive and more in tune with contemporary discussions . . . For those who wish to get a good overview of the present status of science and religion as viewed by contemporary historians of science, this is a good book. It could also serve as an intellectually challenging introduction for undergraduates in a science/religion course.—Arie Leegwater, Calvin College, Perspectives on Science and Christian FaithTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Science and Religion: Conflict or Complexity?1. Science and Religion Stephen P. WeldonPart II: The Premodern Period2. Aristotle and AristotelianismEdward Grant and Craig Martin3. Early Christian Attitudes toward NatureDavid C. Lindberg and Gary B. Ferngren4. Science and Religion in Medieval Latin ChristendomMichael H. Shank and David C. Lindberg5. IslamAlnoor Dhanani and Glen M. CooperPart III: The Scientific Revolution6. The Copernican RevolutionOwen Gingerich7. Galileo GalileiRichard J. Blackwell and Michael H. Shank8. Early Modern ProtestantismEdward B. Davis9. Isaac NewtonStephen Snobelen10. Natural TheologyJohn Hedley BrookePart IV: Transformations in Geology, Biology, and Cosmology, 1650-190011. Geology and Paleontology from 1700 to 1900Nicolaas A. Rupke12. Natural History Peter M. Hess and John Henry13. Charles DarwinJames Moore14. EvolutionPeter J. Bowler and John Henry15. CosmogoniesRonald L. Numbers and Peter J. SusallaPart V: The Response of Religious Traditions16. The Bible and ScienceJohn Stenhouse17. Roman Catholicism since TrentSteven J. Harris and Mariusz Tabaczek18. Evangelicalism and FundamentalismMark A. Noll and Christopher M. Rios19. The Scopes TrialEdward J. Larson20. Judaism and SciencesNoah Efron21. Modern Western Science and Asian TraditionsTomoko Yoshida and Stephen P. Weldon22. AtheismJohn HenryPart VI: The Theological Implications of Modern Science23. PhysicsRichard Olson24. Modern CosmologiesCraig McConnell25. CausationJohn Henry and Mariusz Tabaczek26. The Modern Synthesis in EvolutionJoshua M. Moritz27. AnthropologyTimothy Larson28. American PsychologyMatthew S. Hedstrom29. Neuroscience and the Human PersonAlan C. Weissenbacher30. Ecology and the EnvironmentDavid N. Livingstone and Diarmid A. FinneganAcknowledgments Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Great Stink of Paris and the
Book SynopsisExplores the scientific and social factors that continue to influence the public's lingering uncertainty over how disease canand cannotbe spread. Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years laterwhen the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stinkthe public conversation about health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their noses and protested, but this time few feared that the odors would spread disease. Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and 1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science, medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and practice of public health changed during the heyday of the Bacteriological Revolution. Despite its many innovTrade ReviewBarnes's detailed and scholarly account is persuasive. —ScienceA well-developed study in medically related social history, it tells an intriguing tale and prompts us to ask how our own cultural contexts affect our views and actions regarding environmental and infectious scourges here and now.—New England Journal of MedicineBoth a captivating story and a sophisticated historical study. Kudos to Barnes for this valuable and insightful book that both physicians and historians will enjoy.—Journal of the American Medical AssociationExemplary study . . . The argument of this book rests on an interesting amalgam of insights from critical theorists and social scientists.—Journal of the History of MedicineThe book's relevance to modern-day medical concerns will make it appealing to nurses, public health experts, and medical professionals in general.—Nursing History ReviewA remarkable contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies.—Dalhousie French StudiesA very worthy addition.—IsisDavid Barnes wallows in filth to very good purpose . . . The Great Stink of Paris demonstrates in exemplary fashion the value of complicating medical-historical issues by lifting our vision above ideological and narrowly social concerns so as to explore the broader cultural context of medical ideas and practices.—H-FranceIntelligent and beautifully argued.—Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesBarnes does a splendid job of depicting public anxieties about the stench that overwhelmed Parisians in 1880, and of tracing the campaign by government officials and physicians to respond to these concerns during the following two decades. His book makes an important contribution to both urban history and medical history through its recalibration of the history of public health.—French Politics, Culture & SocietyUseful.—Sharon Marcus, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Not Everything That Stinks Kills"2. The Sanitarians' Legacy, or How Health Became Public3. Taxonomies of Transmission4. Putting Germ Theory into Practice5. Toward a Cleaner and Healthier Republic6. Odors and "Infection," 1880 and BeyondEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press HIV Pioneers
Book SynopsisA moving collection of firsthand accounts of the HIV epidemic. Tremendous strides have been made in the prevention and treatment of HIV since the disease first appeared in the 1980s. But because many of the people who studied and battled the virus in those early days are now gone, firsthand accounts are at risk of being lost. In HIV Pioneers, Wendee M. Wechsberg collects 29 first stories from the outset of the AIDS epidemic. These moving personal narratives and critical historical essays not only shed light on the experiences of global health pioneers, prominent scientists, and HIV survivors, but also preserve valuable lessons for managing the risk and impact of future epidemics. With unprecedented access to many key actors in the fight against AIDS and HIV, Wechsberg brings to life the harrowing reality of those early days of the epidemic. The book captures the experiences of those still working diligently and innovatively in the field, elevating the voices of doctors, scientists,Trade ReviewAnyone interested in science, social history, communicable diseases or epidemiology would benefit from reading this topical, fascinating and inspirational book.—Fay Hartley, British Society for the History of MedicineI would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in HIV epidemiology, especially if they are keen to contribute to the broad-based scientific progress and the well-being of the population they are attempting to benefit.—David Solomon, Anglia Ruskin University, Nursing TimesTable of ContentsForeword, by James W. CurranIntroductionPatients, Physicians, and HospitalsThe Healer, Dr. Beny Primm: Uncommon Man for Uncommon Times "That AZT Kills Patients": Learning from Lamar—A 25-Year-Long Patient-Doctor Relationship Unmoored Yet Another Stigma: HIV Strikes People with Severe Mental Illness AIDS Case Management: A Community Response Women and Pioneering WomenCherchez la Femme: Yes, the French Woman Did It. She Discovered the AIDS Virus.The Needlestick Accident That Launched Healthcare Worker Safety: A Nurse's HIV JourneyHIV Takes Center Stage"Don't Die of Ignorance": A Scramble for Knowledge Methadone Treatment, Jessie Helms, and Reaching Women Who Use Drugs South Africa's Response to AIDS and Preventing HIV in Young Women SurvivorsFinding the Black Church in the Fight to End AIDS: My Story Finding My Calling in Hell: My Journey Through the Early Years of AIDSWhat Did You Learn, Dorothy? Once a Garden, Now a Wildflower Personal Turning PointsBaltimore's HERO But You're Not Part of Our Community The Accidental Ethnographer People Who Use DrugsGRID: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Stories and Lessons Learned Surrounding People Who Inject Drugs: The Early Days of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Encounter With the Dark Side Junkiebonden and Users' Groups: Learning About the Collective Organization of People Who Use Drugs Social and Behavioral ScienceWe're From the Government and We're Here to Help You First AIDS Grant, First Interviews with AIDS Patients, First Syringe Exchange Politics, First Syringe Research The Development, Testing, and Implementation of an Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model for the Prediction and Promotion of HIV/AIDS Preventive Behavior Out of Suffering: New Directions in AIDS Behavioral Prevention Research From a Personal Perspective From the Many One: A Collaborative Approach Historical PerspectivesThe Beginning of Science in the HIV Epidemic: Eureka Moments "Slim Disease": A New Health Scare in Uganda Afterword Contributors Index Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Impatient Dr. Lange
Book SynopsisThe incredible story of Joep Lange's life and his unrelenting quest to end the HIV epidemic. When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in July 2014, the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky and disappeared among the burning debris. Seated in the plane's business-class cabin was Joseph Lange, better known as Joep, a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure. Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child. Fighting the injustices of poverty, Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the vulnerable. He championed the drug cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal proponent of prophylactic treatment Trade ReviewMore than just a biography, The Impatient Dr. Lange is a must-read for medical students and history buffs; it is also a sociopolitical overview of Europe and Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The heartbreaking stories of HIV and AIDS patients across the globe, paired with Lange’s relentless drive, propel the narrative forward. Clear, concise, and thoroughly researched, this book shows how one person with ambition, compassion, hope, and the right resources can accomplish extraordinary things.—Aimee Jodoin, Foreword ReviewsEngrossing—Laurie Garrett, The LancetYasmin offers a vivid sense of Lange's complexity, his faults and virtues, and the people and the causes he loved . . . Readers interested in the history of HIV and AIDS or biographies of persons who played a significant role in global health will find this a fascinating read.—Library JournalTable of ContentsForeword How This Book Came to Be Chapter One. The End Chapter Two. Origin Stories Chapter Three. The Epidemic Chapter Four. Learn Your Enemy Chapter Five. Unusual Bureaucrat Chapter Six. Trials Chapter Seven. Denial Chapter Eight. A Is for Activist Chapter Nine. Money and Faith Chapter Ten. Cure Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Global Forensic Cultures
Book SynopsisEssays explore forensic science in global and historical context, opening a critical window onto contemporary debates about the universal validity of present-day genomic forensic practices. Contemporary forensic science has achieved unprecedented visibility as a compelling example of applied expertise. But the common public viewthat we are living in an era of forensic deliverance, one exemplified by DNA typinghas masked the reality: that forensic science has always been unique, problematic, and contested. Global Forensic Cultures aims to rectify this problem by recognizing the universality of forensic questions and the variety of practices and institutions constructed to answer them. Groundbreaking essays written by leaders in the field address the complex and contentious histories of forensic techniques. Contributors also examine the co-evolution of these techniques with the professions creating and using them, with the systems of governance and jurisprudence in which they are useTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Forensic Facts, the Guts of RightsChristopher HamlinPart I. Evidence and EpistemologyChapter 1. The Value(s) of Methods: Method Selection in German Forensic Toxicology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth CenturyMarcus B. CarrierChapter 2. The Imperial Serologist and Punitive Self-Harm: Bloodstains and Legal Pluralism in British IndiaMitra Sharafi Chapter 3. Handwriting Analysis as a Dynamic Artisanal Science: The Hardless Detective Dynasty and the Forensic Cultures of the British RajProjit Bihari Mukharji Chapter 4. Spatters and Lies: Contrasting Forensic Cultures in the Trials of Sam Sheppard, 1954-66Ian BurneyPart II. Practices of Power and PolicingChapter 5. Death and Empire: Medicolegal Investigations and Practice across the British Empire Jeffrey JentzenChapter 6. Fingerprints and the Politics of Scientific Policing in Early Twentieth-Century SpainJosé Ramón Bertomeu SánchezChapter 7. From Bedouin Trackers to Doberman Pinschers: The Rise of Dog Tracking as Forensic Evidence in PalestineBinyamin Blum Chapter 8. "DNA Evidence Cannot Lie": Forensic Science, Truth Regimes, and Civic Epistemology in Thai HistoryQuentin (Trais) Pearson Part III. Training and TransmittingChapter 9. Cleaning Out the Mortuary and the Medicolegal Text: Ambriose Tardieu's Modernizing EnterpriseBruno Bertherat Chapter 10. The Strange Science: Tracking and Detection in the Late Nineteenth-Century PunjabGagan Preet SinghChapter 11. Forensic Knowledge and Forensic Networks in Britain's Empire: The Case of Sydney SmithHeather Wolffram Afterword: A Tale of Two Cities? Locating the History of Forensic Science and Medicine in Contemporary Forensic Reform DiscourseSimon A. Cole List of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Fat in the Fifties
Book SynopsisA riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the leading cause of premature death in the United States in the 1930s, but it wasn't until 1951 that the public health and medical communities finally recognized it as America's Number One Health Problem. The reason for MetLife's interest? They wanted their policyholders to live longer and continue paying their premiums. Early postwar America responded to the obesity emergency, but by the end of the 1960s, the crisis waned and official rates of true obesity were reduced despite the fact that Americans were growing no thinner. What mid-century factors and forces established obesity as a politically meaningful and culturally resonant problem in the first place? And why did obesity fade from publicand medicalconsciousness only a decade later? Based on archival records of health leaders as well as medical and popular literature, Fat inTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Fat and the Public's Health before the Second World War Chapter 2. Obesity Becomes a Mental Disorder Chapter 3. The Postwar Heart Alarm Chapter 4. Fighting Heart Disease One Calorie at a Time in Cold War Suburbia Chapter 5. The New Epidemiology and Its Impact Chapter 6. The Disappearance of Obesity as a Public Health ProblemNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press In Search of Sexual Health
Book SynopsisHow did beliefs about syphilis shape the kinds of treatment people with this disease received? The story of how a town in the Ozark hinterlands played a key role in determining standards of medical care around syphilis. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the central Arkansas city of Hot Springs enjoyed a reputation as one of the United States' premier health resorts. Throughout this period, the vast majority of Americans who traveled there did so because they had (or thought they had) syphilisa disease whose incidence was said to be dramatically on the rise all across the country. Boasting an impressive medical infrastructure that included private clinics, a military hospital, and a venereal disease clinic operated by the United States Public Health Service, Hot Springs extended a variety of treatment options. Until the antibiotic revolution of the 1940s, Hot Springs occupied a central position in the country's struggle with sexually transmitted disease. Drawing upon health-seeTrade ReviewHistorically, Hot Springs is known for visits by famous gangsters and baseball players, but the town's history of being a nationwide destination for syphilitics seeking hydrotherapy is uncovered in historian Elliott Bowen's book In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1890-1940.—The Hot Springs Sentinel-RecordBowen contributes important insight into the course of medical tourism in the United States, developments in medical understandings of the "venereal peril," transitions in the concept of syphilis as a moral or medical condition, recognition of the chronic and late-stage complications of the disease, and the experience of ethnic and gender discrimination among syphilis patients in a southern treatment center.—Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas, Arkansas Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Emergence of Hot Springs as a Haven for the American Syphilitic, 1880-19102. "Administering to Minds Diseased": Treating Syphilis in Turn-of-the-Century Hot Springs3. Diagnosing Syphilis at Army and Navy General Hospital, 1890-19124. The Hot Springs VD Clinic, 1920-19375. From Hygiene to Hydrotherapy: Private Practitioners in Hot Springs, 1910-1940EpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Mary Elizabeth Garrett
Book SynopsisA captivating look at the remarkable life of this nineteenth-century suffragist, philanthropist, and reformer. Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through the turbulent years of the Civil War to the early twentieth century. At once a captivating biography of Garrett and an epic account of the rise of commerce, railroading, and women's rights, Sander's work reexamines the great social and political movements of the age. As the youngest child and only daughter of the B&O Railroad mogul John Work Garrett, Mary was bright and capable, well suited to become her father's heir apparent. But social convention prohibited her from following in his footsteps, a source of great frustration for the brilliant and strong-willed woman. Mary turned her attention instead to promoting women's rTrade ReviewSander's book offers a well-researched and warm portrait of a female maverick who redefined the meaning of the term daddy's girl.—Baltimore SunHighly recommended.—Midwest Book ReviewGarrett's biography is long overdue, and Kathleen Waters Sander does a splendid job.—American Historical ReviewA well-written, judicious, and engrossing examination of one of the major women philanthropists in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.—Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraAn important, richly detailed biography of a formidable nineteenth-century woman who worked in a man's world to help women attain education, suffrage, and equality.—Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceForeword, by Senator Barbara A. MikulskiIntroduction: Quiet Revolutionary1. Garrett's Road2. Ascension3. Expansion and Restriction4. After Garrett5. The Practical Head of the Garrett Family6. The Scheme7. A Pleasure to Be Bought8. The Happiness of Getting Our Work Done9. Wise and Far-sightedAppendix A: Class of 1879, the Woman's Medical College of PennsylvaniaAppendix B: Analysis of the Women's Medical School Fund CampaignNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Riverblindness in Africa
Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of how a large public-private partnership worked to control and defeat riverblindnessa scourge which had devastated rural communities and impeded socioeconomic development throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa for generations. Riverblindness (onchocerciasis)a pervasive neglected disease, transmitted by the blackfly, that causes horrific itching, disfigurement, and loss of visionis also known as lion's stare in reference to the fixed, lifeless glare of the eyes blinded by the disease. The disease has destroyed countless lives for generations, particularly in Africa. Its effects are so devastating that the areas where it is most common (large expanses of land around rivers where the fly breeds) end up abandoned as villages move farther and farther away to more arid environments in order to escape the fly-biting, and hence the disease. The disease devastates communities from multiple angles: a large portion of each stricken community's population is disabled, often Table of ContentsForeword, by James D. WolfensohnPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The ChallengeChapter 2. Launching and Scaling Up the Onchocerciasis Control Program Chapter 3. Expansion and RescueChapter 4. The Game Changer—IvermectinChapter 5. Getting Mectizan to Africa, Concluding the OCPChapter 6. A Closer Look at Socioeconomic DevelopmentChapter 7. Widening the Effort to All of AfricaChapter 8. Deepening and Widening the ObjectiveChapter 9. Learning from the Past, Looking to the FuturePeople InterviewedAcronyms and AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Contagion of Liberty
Book SynopsisNow an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States. Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History by the LA Times, Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize by the Massachusetts Historical SocietyThe Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to protect themselves against smallpoxthey were the ones demanding it. In The Contagion of Liberty, Andrew M. Wehrman describes a revolution within a revolution, where the violent insistence for freedom from disease ultimately helped American colonists achieve independence from Great Britain. Inoculation, a shocking procedure introduced to America by an enslaved African, became the most sought-after medical procedure of thTrade ReviewIn The Contagion of Liberty, historian Andrew Wehrman traces the path of the smallpox-inoculation movement, and its generally overlooked impact on politics around the American War of Independence. He argues that smallpox influenced the journey towards independence from British rule, and how Americans conceived of their new, hard-won liberties. It is a tale of startling contemporary relevance.As vaccination was privatized, he argues, the concept of a civic duty to protect public health was displaced by the idea of disease as a consequence of personal negligence.—NatureThe Covid pandemic wasn't the first time that America has found itself split along ideological seams over infectious disease.As historian Andrew Wehrman explains in The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution, our downright violent resistance to, and demand for freedom from, the disease was also precisely what helped galvanize our mobilization of independence from England.—EngadgetThe Contagion of Liberty is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution.This thought-provoking history offers a new dimension to our understanding of both the American Revolution and the origins of public health in the United States.—New York AlmanackIn The Contagion f Liberty, Andrew Wehrman weaves together dozens of individual stories and their layered historical contexts to provide a fascinating account of smallpox in America, from colonial times through the early republic. A deeply researched and gracefully written volume.—Wall Street JournalTimely and thought provoking.—H-NetOver the past three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, controversies about preventive measures, government versus individual control of health, medical racism and health inequities, disease versus the economy, and vaccine mandates have raged. Wehrman shows that this is not new ground we are treading...—American Journal of Public HealthAndrew Wehrman makes a robust case that there is nothing new under the sun in public health in his fantastic new monographThe Contagion of Liberty is both timely and sturdy in its findingsIt belongs on any list of the best history books of 2023.—American HistoryAn accessible and valuable example of the long history of American healthcare controversies.—H-WarThe Contagion of Liberty is a well-argued and extremely timely book. The depth of research and attention to political as well as medical debates make it a rare successful crossover text of interest to both historians of medicine and historians of the American Revolution. The strength and clarity of the argument and variety of evidence brought to bear make this book a must-read for students and scholars of the period. Wehrman demonstrates that the history of health and disease are essential—not supplemental—to our understanding of the past.—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesWell written and engaging....Rather than positioning epidemics and disease as natural phenomenon existing next to social and cultural questions, as most histories of that period do, [Wehrman] convincingly shows that smallpox and inoculation were part of political debates and ideas flowing through the history of the United States' independence....As recent epidemiological and political challenges of the present and recent past remind us, and as Wehrman aptly illuminates, these debates remain as pertinent today as they were in 1776.—H-Soz-KultTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Sore Spots: Making Inoculation AmericanChapter 2. General Inoculation in BostonChapter 3. The Norfolk RiotsChapter 4. The Siege of Castle PoxChapter 5. Creating a Critical MassChapter 6. From Rumors to RemediesChapter 7. George Washington's About-FaceChapter 8. Thirteen ScarsChapter 9. Inoculation NationChapter 10. Vaccination PainsConclusionAcknowledgementsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Digitizing Diagnosis
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis. Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore the possible application of a new digital technology to one of the most central, and vexed, tasks of medicine: diagnosis. In Digitizing Diagnosis, Andrew Lea examines these effortsand the larger questions, debates, and transformations that emerged in their wake. While surveying the continuities spanning the analog and digital worlds of medicine, Lea uncovers how the introduction of the computer to medical diagnosis reconfigured the identities of patients, diseases, and physicians. Debates about how and whether to apply computers to the problem of diagnosis, he demonstrates, were animated by larger concerns about the nature of medical reasoning, the definitions of disease, and the authority and identity of physicians and patients. In their attempts to digitize diagnosis, these interdiTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Patient1. Indexing the World2. The Statistical PatientPart II: Disease3. The Disease Concept Incarnate4. The Medical MindPart III: Physician5. MYCIN Explains Itself6. "Hidden in the Code"ConclusionAbbreviations of Cited Archival SourcesIndexNotes
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Johns Hopkins University Press Do I Know You
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of how we recognize facesor fail to recognize them. In Do I Know You? Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of face recognition and the the face recognition spectrum, which ranges from face blindness at one end to super recognition at the other. Super recognizers can recall faces from only the briefest exposure, while face blind people lack the capacity to recognize faces at all, including those of their closest loved ones. Informed by archival research, the latest neurological studies, and testimonials from people at both ends of the spectrum, Pearl tells a nuanced story of how we relate to each other through our faces. The category of face recognition is relatively new despite the importance of faces in how we build relationships and understand our own humanity. Pearl shows how this most tacit of knowledge came to enter the scientific and diagnostic field despite difficulties with identifying it. She offers a grounded framework for how we evaluate oTrade ReviewThe book serves as a clinical yet compelling breakdown...Do I Know You? may be most compelling to the face blind and super recognizers (or their loved ones), Pearl adeptly broadens the lens with interesting tidbits, demonstrating what our collective obsession with knowing faces means for us as a society, for good and for ill, especially in our digital era.—Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Inventing a SpectrumChapter 1. Thinking in Cases: A Somewhat Failed Search for OriginsChapter 2. The Blindness of Great Men; or, How Prosopagnosia Was InventedChapter 3. More Men, More Invention: The Other Side of the Spectrum (and Two Sides of the Same Story)Chapter 4. A Super Useless Super Skill: Meet the SupersChapter 5. Face Surveillance at the Border: Checkpoint CharlieChapter 6. Face Recognition Software and Machine Translation: Why Computers Aren't PeopleChapter 7. Is There Dyslexia without Reading?Conclusion. Beyond the FaceCoda. The Detective StoryNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Leading the Change
Book SynopsisChronicles Johns Hopkins Medicine's triumphs and challenges during the last ten years, including the institution's global leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Leading the Change: Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2012 to 2022, Karen Nitkin describes a remarkable decade in the history of the institutionan era of growth, innovation, and adaptation. Guided by Paul B. Rothman, the former dean of the medical faculty and the CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, this prestigious medical school and health system cemented its status as a leader in medical education, research, and patient care. This was particularly true during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world turned to Johns Hopkins for evidence-based information and expertise. In this beautifully designed volume, Nitkin introduces the leaders, clinicians, researchers, educators, students, patients, and community members who collaborate to make Johns Hopkins an exemplary place to work, learn, teach, research, and heal. Leading the Change cove
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University of Toronto Press Separate Beds
Book SynopsisSeparate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients.Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the “Indian Hospitals,” the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations.A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism Trade Review'Lux's detailed account will surely be of interest to scholars of Aboriginal history and health care as well as to the people interested in the development of Indian hospitals in Canada.' -- Joanne DeCosse Canada's History October-November 2016 "In painstaking research and matter-of-fact reportage, Associate Professor Lux of Brock University documents Canadian apartheid. Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals In Canada is a riveting and extraordinary account of mistreatment of citizens." -- Tom Korski Blacklocks Reporter, Saturday, June 4, 2016Table of ContentsChapter One: Making Indian Hospitals Chapter Two: Neither Law nor Treaty Chapter Three: Everyone in Their Place: Labour in the Indian Hospitals Chapter Four: Life and Death in an Indian Hospital Chapter Five: Getting out of the Hospital Business Chapter Six: "The Government's eyes were opened": The Treaty Right to Health Care
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University of Toronto Press Body Failure
Book SynopsisIn this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review'Body Failure is an extensively researched and carefully argued book... It is an excellent contribution to the rich, intersecting field of body and medicine in Canada.' -- Jane Nicholas Acadiensis vol 44:02:2015 'This nuanced account of medical views of women in the first half of the twentieth century is sometimes depressing, but it is always fascinating, and tells a story which deserves to be more widely known.' -- Tracey Loughran Social History of Medicine vol 27:04:2014 'Body Failure's rich detail can be profitably mined for lectures, so it is a treat for professors, including the many fine young scholars Mitchinson has trained and mentored in her long career. It is a highly recommended addition and we look forward to her next.' -- Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014 'Body Failure is a very valuable resource on medical views of women's health in Canada... This study reminds us that medicine was and still is, a profession engaged in constant debate, conjecture, and speculation about how gender shapes bodily differences.' -- Susan L. Smith Bulletin of Medical History vol 88:04:2014 'This solid albeit dispassionate book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of a male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself and her body.' -- Herizons, Winter 2015 "This book about how women were sometimes mutilated in the name of male-dominated science is a must read for any woman who respects herself or her body. " -- Maya Khankhoje Herizons Magazine (Winter, 2015) 'Meticulously researched, well organized and clearly written. Body Failure offers a complex and compelling understanding of the medicalization process through a gendered lens and as such, makes an important contribution to the literature on women's health, healthcare, and medicine.' -- Rebecca Kluchin Journal of Social History Fall 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Woman's Place Chapter Two Growing Up and Facing Puberty Chapter Three "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation Chapter Four Understanding Sexuality Chapter Five Advice on Marriage and Motherhood Chapter Six "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility Chapter Seven Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion Chapter Eight "The ... mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology Chapter Nine The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat Chapter Ten The Mind's Health Chapter Eleven Menopause: The End of Womanhood Conclusion Notes on Sources and Methodology
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University of Toronto Press Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health
Book SynopsisAn exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Science, Social (In)Justice and Mental Health LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE AND MARINA MORROW Part One: Foregrounding Social Justice Theorizing 1 "Women and Madness" Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional & Mad Studies Frameworks MARINA MORROW 2 A 'Third Space' for Doing Social Justice Research VIVIANE JOSEWSKI 3 Global Psychiatrization and Psychic Colonization: The Coloniality of Global Mental Health CHINA MILLS Part Two: Decolonizing Research and Practice 4 Mental Health in Africa: Human Rights Approaches to Decolonization MOHAMED IBRAHIM 5 Dancing with Complexity: Decolonization and Social Justice Dialogues RUBY PETERSON AND SABINA CHATTERJEE 6 Melq'ilwiye: Coming Together: Intersections of Identity, Sovereignty and Mental Health for Urban Indigenous Youth NATALIE CLARK, PATRICK WALTON, JULIE DROLET, TARA TRIBUTE, GEORGIA JULES, TALICIA MAIN & MIKE ARNOUSE Part Three: Gender(ing), Discourse and Power 7 Is It Normal or PMS? Women's Strategies Negotiating and Resisting Negative Premenstrual Change JANE M. USSHER AND JANETTE PERZ 8 Depression in Workplaces: Governmentality, Feminist Analysis and Neoliberalism KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIAN 9 Gender Nonconformity or Psychiatric Noncompliance? How Organized Noncompliance Can Offer a Future without Psychiatry JEMMA TOSH Part Four: Media as a Site of Social (In)Justice 10 (De)Pathologization: Transsexuality, Gynecomastia and the Negotiation of Mental Health Diagnoses in Online Communities T. GARNER 11 "One in Five": The Prevalence Problematic in Mental Illness Discourse TANYA TITCHKOSKY AND KATIE AUBRECHT 12 Madness in the Media: An Intersectional Analysis of Educational Films and Television Programming, 1940-1969 WENDY CHAN AND DOROTHY E. CHUNN Part Five: Refashioning Research for Social Justice Praxis 13 Ethics, Research and Advocacy: The Experiences of the NAOMI Patients Association in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver SUSAN BOYD, DAVE MURRAY & NAOMI PATIENTS ASSOCIATION 2013 14 Using Art-based Methods to Create Research Spaces that Encourage Meaningful Dialogue about Gender, Social Inequity, Recovery and Mental Illness INDRANI MARGOLIN, TERRY KRUPA, SEAN KIDD, DARRELL BURNHAM, DAWN HEMINGWAY, MICHELLE PATTERSON & DENISE ZABKIEWICZ 15 Disrupting Dominant Discourses: Rethinking Services and Systems for Women with Experiences of Abuse LOUISE GODARD, VIVIANE JOSEWSKI, JILL CORY, ALEXXA ABI-JAOUDE, LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE & VICTORIA SMYE 16 An Intersectionality Approach to Resilience Research: Centring Structural Analysis, Resistance and Social Justice SARAH CHOWN AND LORRAINE HALINKA MALCOE
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