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In the summer of 1629, John Winthrop described a series of epidemics that devastated Native American populations along the eastern seaboard of New England as a "miraculous plague." Winthrop was struck by the providential nature of these waves of disease, which...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-08-03
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The early history of endometriosis is interwoven with the history of adenomyosis, since it was not until the mid nineteen-twenties that the two conditions were finally separated. A History of Endometriosis provides a detailed reconstruction of the progress made in...
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Springer
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2011-06-15
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In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by declaring a 'war' on cancer. More than 30 years later, however,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-05-26
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In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by declaring a 'war' on cancer. More than 30 years later, however,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-05-26
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As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-16
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Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established.
Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-26
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Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established.
Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-26
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According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-13
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According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-05-13
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This book describes the premier organization for the performance and funding of biomedical research in the United States. By articulating events that occurred at the National Institutes of Health from 1991-2008, this volume also examines the leadership of directors...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-29
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Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours.
Though now seeming a distant memory in Europe, which suffered several epidemics in the 19th century before John Snow identified the link...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours.
Though now seeming a distant memory in Europe, which suffered several epidemics in the 19th century before John Snow identified the link...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda.
As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda.
As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now?The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now?The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-07
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Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a neglected area. Medical historians have tended to focus on maternal mortality and professional conflicts between midwives rather than on the unborn, while among the social scientists...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-08-27
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