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One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine
Author : Logan Clendening
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 1960-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486206211
One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine
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Page : 685 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Medicine
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Author : James Longrigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1136782184
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199248131
Follows the advance of western medicine from ancient Greece, through the contributions of the great Islamic physicians, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans and organ transplants. Highlighting the great medical discoveries, contributors cover such topics as the relationship in the Renaissance between medicine and art, the tension between the church and an increasingly secularized medical professional class, epidemics and the geography of disease, and changing attitudes towards childbirth, mental disease, and the doctor-patient relationship. c. Book News Inc.
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Page : 685 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Peter Cull
Publisher : Parthenon Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
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Over 900 anatomical, medical, and scientific illustrations available for general re-use and adaptation free of normal copyright restrictions.
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Page : 685 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Norman Sheffe
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Page : 147 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History, Ancient
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Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719067372
The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in the ongoing importance of a humor-based view of medicine and the treatment of illness. At the same time, new theories of the body emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to challenge established ideas in medical circles. In recent years, scholars have explored this terrain with increasingly fascinating results, often revising our previous understanding of the ways in which early modern Europeans discussed the body, health and disease. In order to understand these and related processes, historians are increasingly aware of the way in which every aspect of medical care and provision in early modern Europe was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age.
Author : Harriet A. Washington
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 076791547X
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book. "[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book." —New York Times From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust.