Disease History
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Disease In History
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Author : Bruce Short
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Disease In History written by Bruce Short and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with categories.
The impact of disease on history has probably been underestimated by conventional historians.Disease In History offers a broad range of essays and commentaries on medicine as practised within the ancient world, on the early development of modern medicine in the eighteenth century, and on medicine in early Australian history.In the final section the essays are devoted to medicine and modern history and include commentaries on the contemporary menace of biological warfare, the long-standing genocidal suppression of indigenous peoples, and the time-honoured couplet of war and epidemic disease.
Framing Disease
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Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1992
Framing Disease written by Charles E. Rosenberg and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Medical categories.
Many diseases discussed here--endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis--came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. As these essays show, the concept of disease has also been used to frame culturally resonant behaviors: suicide, homosexuality, anorexia nervosa, chronic fatigue syndrome. Disease is also framed by public policy, as the cases of industrial disability and of forensic psychiatry demonstrate. Medical institutions, as managers of people with disease, come to have vested interests in diagnoses, as the histories of facilities to treat tuberculosis or epilepsy reveal. Ultimately, the existence and conquest of disease serves to frame a society's sense of its own "healthiness" and to give direction to social reforms.
The Routledge History Of Disease
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Author : Mark Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
The Routledge History Of Disease written by Mark Jackson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with History categories.
The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present. Organized thematically, chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease, covering subjects from leprosy in medieval Europe and cancer screening practices in twentieth-century USA to the ayurvedic tradition in ancient India and the pioneering studies of mental illness that took place in nineteenth-century Paris, as well as discussing the various sources and methods that can be used to understand the social and cultural contexts of disease. Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315543420.ch24
Disease In The History Of Modern Latin America
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Author : Diego Armus
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-03-26
Disease In The History Of Modern Latin America written by Diego Armus and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-26 with Medical categories.
Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illness—was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present. Based on the idea that the meanings of sickness—and health—are contestable and subject to controversy, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America displays the richness of an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural history. Examining diseases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, the contributors explore the production of scientific knowledge, literary metaphors for illness, domestic public health efforts, and initiatives shaped by the agendas of international agencies. They also analyze the connections between ideas of sexuality, disease, nation, and modernity; the instrumental role of certain illnesses in state-building processes; welfare efforts sponsored by the state and led by the medical professions; and the boundaries between individual and state responsibilities regarding sickness and health. Diego Armus’s introduction contextualizes the essays within the history of medicine, the history of public health, and the sociocultural history of disease. Contributors. Diego Armus, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Kathleen Elaine Bliss, Ann S. Blum, Marilia Coutinho, Marcus Cueto, Patrick Larvie, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Diana Obregón, Nancy Lays Stepan, Ann Zulawski
Disease And History
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Author : Frederick F. Cartwright
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Disease And History written by Frederick F. Cartwright and has been published by Sutton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
This fully updated edition of 'Disease & History' examines diseases such as the plagues which brought down ancient Greece and Rome, the Black Death which devastated 13th century Europe and, more recently, AIDS and the SARS epidemic.
Disease History
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Author : Frederick Fox Cartwright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Disease History written by Frederick Fox Cartwright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Diseases categories.
The Deadly Truth
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Author : Gerald N. Grob
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07
The Deadly Truth written by Gerald N. Grob and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with History categories.
The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn creates novel risks to human health and life. We conquer particular diseases, but others always arise in their stead. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease. Diseases ranging from malaria to cancer have shaped the social landscape--sometimes through brief, furious outbreaks, and at other times through gradual occurrence, control, and recurrence. Grob integrates statistical data with particular peoples and places while giving us the larger patterns of the ebb and flow of disease over centuries. Throughout, we see how much of our history, culture, and nation-building was determined--in ways we often don't realize--by the environment and the diseases it fostered. The way in which we live has shaped, and will continue to shape, the diseases from which we get sick and die. By accepting the presence of disease and understanding the way in which it has physically interacted with people and places in past eras, Grob illuminates the extraordinarily complex forces that shape our morbidity and mortality patterns and provides a realistic appreciation of the individual, social, environmental, and biological determinants of human health.
Health And Disease In Human History
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Author : Robert I. Rotberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000
Health And Disease In Human History written by Robert I. Rotberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Diseases and history categories.
This collection of essays suggests the great extent to which exploration, settlement, agricultural growth, colonization, urbanization, and even human stature were influenced by environmental and epidemiological realities, as well as by political and economic responses to those realities.
Disease And Medicine In World History
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Author : Sheldon Watts
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-05
Disease And Medicine In World History written by Sheldon Watts and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-05 with Health & Fitness categories.
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.
Typhoid Fever
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Author : Richard Adler
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-03-02
Typhoid Fever written by Richard Adler and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-02 with Health & Fitness categories.
In the 21st century, typhoid fever afflicts more than 21 million people each year, primarily in underdeveloped countries. In the age before sanitation and antibiotics, the infection was even more devastating, crippling entire armies and claiming the lives of both rich and poor. The story of typhoid is in many ways the story of modern medicine itself, with early efforts at treatment and prevention paving the way for our understanding of infectious disease in general. Many sought to understand and control the disease, including Robert Koch and Walter Reed. There were unsung heroes as well: Pierre Louis and William Gerhard, among the first to identify the disease's unique nature; William Budd, whose studies demonstrated its transmission through feces; and Georges Widal, whose test for the disease continues to be used in some areas. This book chronicles the fight against typhoid in the words of these and other medical pioneers, showing how far we have come and how far we have yet to go.