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Moments Of Truth In Genetic Medicine
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Author : M. Susan Lindee
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-11-24
Moments Of Truth In Genetic Medicine written by M. Susan Lindee and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-24 with Medical categories.
Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and practice in the United States and in many other industrialized nations. Susan Lindee's original study explores the institutions, disciplines, and ideas that initiated the reconfiguration of genetic medicine from a marginal field in the mid-1950s to a core research frontier of biomedicine. Tracing the work of geneticists and other experts in identifying and classifying disease during the explosive period between 1950 and 1980, Lindee identifies the individual "moments of truth" that moved the field away from its eugenic past to the center of a new world view in which nearly all disease is understood to be fundamentally genetic. She suggests that these moments of truth were experienced not only by scientists but also by those who had familial, intimate, emotional knowledge of hereditary disease: patients, family members, and research subjects. Focusing on benchmarks in the field—such as the rise of neonatal testing in the 1960s, genetic studies of unique human populations such as the Amish, the development of human cytogenetics and human behavioral genetics, and the efforts to find genes for rare diseases such as familial dysautonomia—she tracks the emergence of a biomedical consensus that nearly all disease is genetic disease. Using the success of this field as a point of entry, Lindee chronicles both the production of knowledge in biomedicine and changes in the cultural meaning of the body in the late twentieth century. She suggests that scientific knowledge is a community project that is shaped directly by people in many different social and professional locations. The power to experience and report scientific truth may be much more dispersed than it sometimes appears, because people know things about their own bodies, and their knowledge has often been incorporated into the technical infrastructure of genomic medicine. Lindee's pathbreaking study shows the interdependence of technical and social parameters in contemporary biomedicine.
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Author : M. Susan Lindee
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-10-15
Moments Of Truth In Genetic Medicine written by M. Susan Lindee and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with Medical categories.
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A Short History Of Medical Genetics
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Author : Peter S. Harper
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-24
A Short History Of Medical Genetics written by Peter S. Harper 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 2008-10-24 with Medical categories.
An eminent geneticist, veteran author, OMMG Series Editor, and noted archivist, Peter Harper presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep interest in its historical aspects. Dr. Harper has researched the history of genetics and has had personal contact with a host of key figures whose memories and experiences extend back 50 years, and he has interviewed and recorded conversations with many of these important geneticists. Thus, rather than being a conventional history, this book transmits the essence of the ideas and the people involved and how they interacted in advancing- and sometimes retarding- the field. From the origins of human genetics; through the contributions of Darwin, Mendel, and other giants; the identification of the first human chromosome abnormalities; and up through the completion of the Human Genome project, this Short History is written in the author's characteristic clear and personal style, which appeals to geneticists and to all those interested in the story of human genetics.
Health Care In America
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Author : John C. Burnham
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Health Care In America written by John C. Burnham and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Medical categories.
A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.
History And Philosophy Of The Life Sciences
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language : en
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Release Date : 2006
History And Philosophy Of The Life Sciences written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biology categories.
Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine
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language : en
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Release Date : 2007
Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medicine categories.
Includes the Transactions of the 15th- annual meetings of the American Association of the History of Medicine, 1939-
Oregon Historical Quarterly
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Author : Oregon Historical Society
language : en
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Release Date : 2016
Oregon Historical Quarterly written by Oregon Historical Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Northwest, Pacific categories.
The African American National Biography Moore Lenny Romain
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Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
language : en
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Release Date : 2008
The African American National Biography Moore Lenny Romain written by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with African Americans categories.
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
Cancer In The Twentieth Century
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Author : David Cantor
language : en
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Release Date : 2008-05-26
Cancer In The Twentieth Century written by David Cantor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-26 with Medical categories.
This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, those initiatives took very different forms in different countries. Experts disagreed on how to persuade the public to go to their doctors, what should be the role of public education, how cancer services should be delivered, who should provide them, which forms of therapy were most appropriate to particular cancers, and where to draw the line between therapy and prevention. Focusing on the United States and Britain, this volume examines why these differences emerged, how they shaped national programs of control, and how control programs in the early twentieth century presaged and set the conditions for the emergence of prevention-oriented programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring works by leading medical historians on subjects such as the portrayal of cancer in the movies, feminist surgeons, risk factors for breast cancer, and the emergence of clinical trials, Cancer in the Twentieth Century will engage historians of medicine and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and practitioners.
Blood Types
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Author : Margot Lynn Iverson
language : en
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Release Date : 2007
Blood Types written by Margot Lynn Iverson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.