Author : Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299082444
The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow's classic study in the history of medicine and public health, returns to print in this attractive paperback editon for students, scholars, and practitioners.
Author : Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Charles Edward Amory Winslow
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1998-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521627306
The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.
Author : C.-E.-A. Winslow
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Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Thurman Brooks Rice
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Communicable diseases
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Author : Lealon E. Martin
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Medicine
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Author : Leonard Fabian Hirst
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Epidemiology
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Author : Sheldon Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1134470576
Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many cultures. Sheldon Watts shows that many medical practices in the past were shaped as much by philosophers and metaphysicians as by university-trained doctors and other practitioners. Subjects covered include: Pharaonic Egypt and the pre-conquest New World the evolution of medical systems in the Middle East health and healing on the Indian subcontinent medicine and disease in China the globalization of disease in the modern world the birth and evolution of modern scientific medicine. This volume is a landmark contribution to the field of world history. It covers the principal medical systems known in the world, based on extensive original research. Watts raises questions about globalization in medicine and the potential impact of infectious diseases in the present day.
Author : Ronald Hare
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Medical
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