Author : Alexander von Schwerin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317319095
The use of biologics – drugs made from living organisms – has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century.
Author : Bernd Gausemeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317319214
The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.
Author : Jean-Paul Gaudilliere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 131731686X
The global pharmaceutical industry is currently estimated to be worth $1 trillion. Contributors chart the rise of scientific marketing within the industry from 1920-1980. This is the first comprehensive study into pharmaceutical marketing, demonstrating that many new techniques were actually developed in Europe before being exported to America.
Author : Barry M Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317319001
Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for future health care which rested on a combination of voluntary and municipal provision.
Author : Ernst Homburg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1789203201
Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted. Each study situates chemical hazards in a long-term and transnational framework and demonstrates the importance of considering both the natural and the social contexts in which their histories have unfolded.
Author : Elizabeth Neswald
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1580465765
Nutritional knowledge between the lab and the field : the search for dietary norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Elizabeth Neswald -- How vegetarians, naturopaths, scientists, and physicians unmade the protein standard in modern Germany / Corinna Treitel -- Of carnivores and conquerors : French nutritional debates in the Age of Empire, 1890-1914 / Deborah Neill -- Setting standards : the soldier's food in Germany, 1850-1960 / Ulrike Thoms -- The quest for a nutritional El Dorado : efforts to demonstrate dietary impacts on resistance to infectious disease in the 1920s and 1930s / David F. Smith -- Not a complete food for man? : the controversy about white versus wholemeal bread in interwar Britain / Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska -- Proscribing deception? : the Gould net weight amendment and the origins of mandatory nutrition labeling / Suzanne Junod -- When is a famine not a famine? Gauging Indian hunger in Imperial and Cold War contexts / Nick Cullather
Author : Howard Chiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317318889
This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317318048
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author : Josep L Barona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317316789
Based on extensive archival research, this study examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health, creating a revolution in public health practice.
Author : Robert Bud
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1787353931
In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.
