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In the 1890s, the Pasteur Institute established a network of laboratories that stretched across France's empire, from Indochina to West Africa. Quickly, researchers at these laboratories became central to France's colonial project, helping officials monopolize...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-31
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A FIRST-EVER COLLECTION FROM AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN OF MEDICINE AND CULTURAL LIFE
From Howard Markel, author of An Anatomy of Addiction "Absorbing, vivid" -- Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page) and The Kelloggs (2017 National...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-11
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He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-11-11
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Not all scientific discoveries are genius.
Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis -- not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-15
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This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-11
Collection :
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer.As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2019-10-01
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From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-10
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The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar problems that confronted physicians in ancient Greece. This framework provides illuminating entry points into challenges faced by the practice of medicine,...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-04-16
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How could a self-taught scholar of the calibre of Gaston Contremoulins be forgotten?
Driven by his fascination with photography and the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen in 1897, he was the first to invent a device capable of locating intracranial foreign bodies. He thus...
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EDP Sciences
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2019-04-05
Collection :
SCIENCES ET HISTOIRES
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By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing.By 1970, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-17
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This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s. It closely examines the changes in the systems and the symbiotic relationship between Japan’s status in international relations and the development...
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Springer
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2018-12-06
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"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick...· A...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-10-18
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Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-10-13
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Honderd jaar geleden gold tuberculose nog als volksziekte nummer één, tegenwoordig komt de ziekte in Nederland nauwelijks meer voor. Omgekeerd sprak niemand in 1900 over hypertensie of een hartinfarct. Ziekten komen en gaan. Net als de reactie op die...
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Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
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2018-07-23
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This book, aptly titled ‘Tabiyat’ which translates to ‘health’, ‘nature’, ‘temperament’ or ‘disposition’, is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays which explore some important discoveries, dwelling on their relevance in our daily lives. Including...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-02-23
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This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-14
Collection :
Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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T. A. Cavanaugh's Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession's unique internal medical ethic - in its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-11-01
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This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and scientifically grounded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-08
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