Incurable And Intolerable
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Incurable And Intolerable
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Author : Jason Szabo
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-08
Incurable And Intolerable written by Jason Szabo 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 2009-05-08 with Medical categories.
Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace? Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those of doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented and well-written history illuminates the physical, emotional, social, and existential consequences of chronic disease and terminal illness, and offers an original look at the world of palliative medicine, politics, religion, and charity. Revealing the ways in which history can shed new light on contemporary thinking, Jason Szabo encourages a more careful scrutiny of today's attitudes, policies, and practices surrounding "imminent death" and its effects on society.
Chronic Disease In The Twentieth Century
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Author : George Weisz
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Chronic Disease In The Twentieth Century written by George Weisz and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Medical categories.
How the evolving concept of chronic disease has affected patients and politics in the United States and Europe. Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health activities until the later decades of the nineteenth century, when it became understood as a treatable infectious disease. Historian of medicine George Weisz analyzes why the idea of chronic disease assumed critical importance in the twentieth century and how it acquired new meaning as one of the most serious problems facing national healthcare systems. Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century challenges the conventional wisdom that the concept of chronic disease emerged because medicine's ability to cure infectious disease led to changing patterns of disease. Instead, it suggests, the concept was constructed and has evolved to serve a variety of political and social purposes. How and why the concept developed differently in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France are central concerns of this work. In the United States, anxiety about chronic disease spread early in the twentieth century and was transformed in the 1950s and 1960s into a national crisis that helped shape healthcare reform. In the United Kingdom, the concept emerged only after World War II, was associated almost exclusively with proper medical care for the elderly population, and became closely linked to the development of geriatrics as a specialty. In France, the problems of elderly and infirm people were handled as technical and administrative matters until the 1950s and 1960s, when medical treatment of elderly people emerged as a subset of their wider social marginality. While an international consensus now exists regarding a chronic disease crisis that demands better forms of disease management, the different paths taken by these countries during the twentieth century continue to exert profound influence. This book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy.
The Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with American literature categories.
The War Within Between Good And Evil
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Author : Bhimeswara Challa
language : en
Publisher:
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The War Within Between Good And Evil written by Bhimeswara Challa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The human has always prided himself as an exceptional ‘moral species’ but has always been haunted by two questions: ‘Why am I not good when I want to be; ‘why do I do bad when I don’t want to’. This is at the heart of what scriptures and sages have long alluded to as the eternal internal struggle-between good and evil - that wages in the human consciousness. The book posits that much of our confusion and angst stems from our inability to recognize the ramifications of this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this war that we are losing all other wars of the world. That ignorance is the primary source of all the horrors, malevolence, and violence that fill us with so much dread. But a ‘favorable’ outcome is possible only if the forces of goodness are aided to get an upper hand consistently - and that calls for two cathartic changes: consciousness-change by inducing a turn from the mind to the heart; and contextual-change, by radically reconstructing the roles of morality, money, and mortality in our everyday lives. The book offers a menu of insights and options we all can use to tilt the scales in the war waging inside each of us.
The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of Medicine
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Author : Mark Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-25
The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of Medicine written by Mark Jackson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with Medical categories.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.
The Cancer Problem
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Author : Agnes Arnold-Forster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
The Cancer Problem written by Agnes Arnold-Forster and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today.
Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with American periodicals categories.
Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art April 1885
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art April 1885 written by Various and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Art categories.
Why My Wife Had To Die
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Author : Brian Verity
language : en
Publisher: Envelope Books
Release Date : 2024-08-20
Why My Wife Had To Die written by Brian Verity and has been published by Envelope Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The terrifying fact is this: Huntington's disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with a 1:2 chance of inheritance that cannot be determined until the disease shows itself, often not until the sufferer is in their 40s. Many do not know they have the gene or are at risk of passing it on. Those who do know, because a parent has suffered from it, may wait a lifetime before finding out whether they are safe or not. The prospects are horrific. After his first marriage failed, Brian Verity had a breakdown and married the woman who nursed him back to health. Within a few years, she began showing the signs of Huntington's that he had seen in other members of her family and that he had a morbid fear of. Having fallen in love with her in hospital, he now found himself repelled, fearful of his own psychological fragility and inability to cope and yet committed to protecting her from the terrible distress that lay in wait. In his view, assisted dying was her only option. Was he right? In this tough, uncompromising book, Brian Verity raises difficult ethical questions about the freedoms granted to carriers of the Huntington's gene to raise children of their own and the lack of freedom given to them to end their lives. This is not a book with a happy ending, nor have its full ramifications yet been embedded into our supposedly caring society.
Gender And Cancer In England 1860 1948
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Author : Ornella Moscucci
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-24
Gender And Cancer In England 1860 1948 written by Ornella Moscucci and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with History categories.
This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900 have prominently targeted women’s cancers. Women have also been key participants in the ‘war’ on cancer through their various roles as medical practitioners, midwives, nurses, health visitors, radiotherapists and cytotechnicians. Moscucci’s study traces this complex history from the establishment of ‘early detection and treatment’ policies aimed at cervical cancer, to the controversial development of prophylactic oophorectomy as a strategy for the prevention of ovarian cancer. Women’s cancers are highly visible in modern English society as symbols of progress in cancer therapy and prevention. The account offered in this volume reveals a different story, marked by hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments.