Medicine And Western Civilization
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Medicine And Western Civilization
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Author : David J. Rothman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1995
Medicine And Western Civilization written by David J. Rothman 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 1995 with Family & Relationships categories.
This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.
Medical Teaching In Western Civilization
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Author : William Bechmann Wartman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Medical Teaching In Western Civilization written by William Bechmann Wartman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Medical education categories.
Medicine Across Cultures
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Author : Helaine Selin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-04-11
Medicine Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Medical categories.
This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography.
Medicine As Culture
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Author : Deborah Lupton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Medicine As Culture written by Deborah Lupton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Humanistic Ecology
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Author : Paolo Palmieri
language : en
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Humanistic Ecology written by Paolo Palmieri and has been published by Common Ground Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Science categories.
Humanistic ecology builds on the interrelatedness of traditions such as magic, medicine, and science, as exemplified in the history of Western civilization in order to integrate forgotten or marginalized pathways to knowledge and well-being.
Science And Civilisation In China Part 6 Medicine
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-13
Science And Civilisation In China Part 6 Medicine written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-13 with History categories.
The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.
Public Health
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Author : Dona Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-09
Public Health written by Dona Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Medical categories.
Published in 2008, the first volume of Public Health focused on issues from the dawn of western civilization through the Progressive era. Volume 2 defines the public health challenges of the twentieth century--this important reference covers not only how the discipline addressed the problems of disease, but how it responded to economic, environmental, occupational, and social factors that impacted public health on a global scale. Major illnesses such as cancer, HIV, and tuberculosis are addressed, along with lifestyle concerns, such as tobacco and nutrition. Chapters also explore maternal-child and women's health, dental public health, health economics and ethics, and the role of philanthropy. Each chapter begins with an in-depth introduction, followed by three original articles that illustrate the problem. The volume is enhanced with a detailed chronology of public health events, as well as appendices that contain many of the original documents that ushered public health into the new millennium.
Madness
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Author : Petteri Pietikäinen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Madness written by Petteri Pietikäinen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with History categories.
Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilization. The book opens by considering perceptions and experiences of madness starting in Biblical times, Ancient history and Hippocratic medicine to the Age of Enlightenment, before moving on to developments from the late 18th century to the late 20th century and the Cold War era. Petteri Pietikäinen looks at issues such as 18th century asylums, the rise of psychiatry, the history of diagnoses, the experiences of mental health patients, the emergence of neuroses, the impact of eugenics, the development of different treatments, and the late 20th century emergence of anti-psychiatry and the modern malaise of the worried well. The book examines the history of madness at the different levels of micro-, meso- and macro: the social and cultural forces shaping the medical and lay perspectives on madness, the invention and development of diagnoses as well as the theories and treatment methods by physicians, and the patient experiences inside and outside of the mental institution. Drawing extensively from primary records written by psychiatrists and accounts by mental health patients themselves, it also gives readers a thorough grounding in the secondary literature addressing the history of madness. An essential read for all students of the history of mental illness, medicine and society more broadly.
Medicine As Culture
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Author : Deborah Lupton
language : en
Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
Release Date : 2003
Medicine As Culture written by Deborah Lupton and has been published by Sage Publications (CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Medical categories.
This edition provides a broad overview of the way medicine is experienced, perceived and socially constructed in Western societies.
Western Diseases Their Emergence And Prevention
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Author : Hubert Carey Trowell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1981
Western Diseases Their Emergence And Prevention written by Hubert Carey Trowell 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 1981 with Chronic diseases categories.
In this major synthesis of cross-cultural research, 34 distinguished scientists study 25 common metabolic and degenerative diseases characteristic of all advanced Western nations and then examine their incidence in developing countries, among both hunter-gatherers and peasant agriculturalists. Thus the authors provide a unique opportunity to compare epidemiological data reflecting modern modes of life with data influenced by habits and diets dating back 400 generations to the advent of agriculture, and even 200,000 generations or more to the dawn of man. The results confirm the view that diseases like hypertension, lung cancer, diverticular disease, and appendicitis are maladaptations to environmental factors introduced since the Industrial Revolution. They also demonstrate that such diseases become more prevalent when Western lifestyles are adopted in primitive societies. Certain studies reveal a regression of disease incidence when exercise is increased and a diet high in starch and fiber, low in fat and salt, is resumed--characteristics of a simpler way of life. Western Diseases greatly broadens our perspective on some of the most vexing health problems in our society. It will be an essential reference for epidemiologists, nutritionists, and gastroenterologists in particular.