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Doctoring Freedom

Author : Gretchen Long
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837393
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Freedom written by Gretchen Long and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In Doctoring Freedom, Gretchen Long tells the stories of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education, showing the important relationship between medical practice and political identity. Working closely with antebellum medical journals, planters' diaries, agricultural publications, letters from wounded African American soldiers, WPA narratives, and military and Freedmen's Bureau reports, Long traces African Americans' political acts to secure medical care: their organizing mutual-aid societies, their petitions to the federal government, and, as a last resort, their founding of their own medical schools, hospitals, and professional organizations. She also illuminates work of the earliest generation of black physicians, whose adult lives spanned both slavery and freedom. For African Americans, Long argues, claiming rights as both patients and practitioners was a political and highly charged act in both slavery and emancipation.

Doctoring Freedom

Author : Gretchen Long
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835838
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Freedom written by Gretchen Long and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a

Doctoring Freedom

Author : Margaret Geneva Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Freedom written by Margaret Geneva Long and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sick from Freedom

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199908788
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Sick from Freedom written by Jim Downs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.

Learning from the Wounded

Author : Shauna Devine
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469611554
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Learning from the Wounded written by Shauna Devine and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Medicalizing Blackness

Author : Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632888
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Medicalizing Blackness written by Rana A. Hogarth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.

Choose Your Medicine

Author : Lewis A. Grossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190612754
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Choose Your Medicine written by Lewis A. Grossman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishment. The country's history is also, however, brimming with social movements that have condemned such restrictions as violations of fundamental American liberties. This fierce conflict is one of the defining features of the social history of medicine in the United States. In Choose Your Medicine, Lewis A. Grossman presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American health policy, law, and regulation from the Revolution through the Trump Era." -- book jacket.

Working Cures

Author : Sharla M. Fett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807853788
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Working Cures written by Sharla M. Fett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.

Just Doctoring

Author : Troyen A. Brennan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520319583
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Just Doctoring written by Troyen A. Brennan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880

Author : Wendy Gonaver
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469648458
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 written by Wendy Gonaver and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. In this book, Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments, showing how slavery and ideas about race shaped early mental health treatment in the United States, especially in the South. She reveals these connections through the histories of two asylums in Virginia: the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, the first in the nation; and the Central Lunatic Asylum in Petersburg, the first created specifically for African Americans. Eastern Lunatic Asylum was the only institution to accept both slaves and free blacks as patients and to employ slaves as attendants. Drawing from these institutions' untapped archives, Gonaver reveals how slavery influenced ideas about patient liberty, about the proper relationship between caregiver and patient, about what constituted healthy religious belief and unhealthy fanaticism, and about gender. This early form of psychiatric care acted as a precursor to public health policy for generations, and Gonaver's book fills an important gap in the historiography of mental health and race in the nineteenth century.

Safe and Effective?

Author : Katelyn McCormack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578650395
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Safe and Effective? written by Katelyn McCormack and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogma and vaccines, nothing could be more true. As one of the most polarizing conversations of our time, vaccination discussions have become essentially obsolete. People fight, belittle, and name call, but rarely can a productive conversation be found. Starting a conversation about a personal decision you have made regarding your health is always challenging. Fearing how someone will respond or judge makes a rational conversation almost impossible. This book provides 18 of the most common arguments regarding vaccinations and how to handle the conversation topics with a logical, rational, and well-substantiated viewpoint. This book delivers the shorthand version of the many thoughts and talking points you have heard and processed to be able to present them in a productive dialogue. There are hundreds of books regarding medical freedom and vaccinations, this book synthesizes the key points and condenses them into a 1-hour read. Reading this book will empower individuals to navigate these difficult conversations by having a tool that can ease the burden of a challenging discussion.

Doctoring Data

Author : Malcolm Kendrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907797460
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Doctoring Data written by Malcolm Kendrick and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Next Wave Is Brave

Author : Peter McCullough
Publisher : Pierucci Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781956257632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book The Next Wave Is Brave written by Peter McCullough and published by Pierucci Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been said that true wealth is good health; and we couldn't agree more. Millions of people have awakened over the past few years from a nightmare in healthcare - a corrupt ecosystem designed to keep patients dependent and physicians beholden to corporations instead of patient care. We have a solution, and you're a part of it. The Wellness Company has brought together the brightest minds and bravest hearts in seven unique stories of courage, synchronicity, and hope. The Next Wave is Brave illustrates to the reader the precise journey forward with tangible direction from the authors in the spirit of gratitude for the opportunity of our lifetime. Together, we can restore medical freedom. This book is our blueprint. Among the world's most respected doctors are the six voices in this book. Together, they are laying a foundation for a new way of keeping healthy; the future of medicine includes a system of care and accountability between pharmacies, medical schools, outpatient care and telemedicine, and nutraceutical and deprescribing support.

Patients and Doctors

Author : Jeffrey M. Borkan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299163402
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Patients and Doctors written by Jeffrey M. Borkan and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How patients heal doctors In Patients and Doctors, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes--from suffering to humor to death--help us to understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. In settings as diverse as Slovenia and Sweden, Cambodia and New Jersey, we learn what makes the healer feel graced with insight or scarred with misadventure. In Washington State, we anguish with patient and doctor alike when a young resident removes a screw from a little boy's foot; on the Israeli-Jordanian border, a woman goes into labor just as the air-raid sirens signal the beginning of the Gulf War. These compelling accounts remind us what is at stake in doctoring, reinforcing the value of stories in the teaching and practice of medicine: to calm, to validate, and to illuminate the human experience. "These stories illustrate humane physicians at their best."--Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale

The National League for Medical Freedom

Author : National League for Medical Freedom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The National League for Medical Freedom written by National League for Medical Freedom and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ending Medical Reversal

Author : Vinayak K. Prasad
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417723
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Ending Medical Reversal written by Vinayak K. Prasad and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic tool without a robust evidence base—and then stop using it when it is found not to help, or even to harm, patients. In Ending Medical Reversal, Drs. Prasad and Cifu narrate fascinating stories from every corner of medicine to explore why medical reversals occur, how they are harmful, and what can be done to avoid them. They explore the difference between medical innovations that improve care and those that only appear to be promising. They also outline a comprehensive plan to reform medical education, research funding and protocols, and the process for approving new drugs that will ensure that more of what gets done in doctors' offices and hospitals is truly effective. "Every doctor should read this book."—JAMA Internal Medicine "[A]n excellent and realistic discussion of some of the horror stories that occur in medical practice . . . Highly recommended."—Choice "Ending Medical Reversal goes far in teaching medical students and practicing physicians alike how to learn on our own."—The Lancet "This has to be on the reading list for medical and nursing students."—Nursing Times "Ending Medical Reversal presents persuasive evidence that many current standard-of-care treatments are probably ineffective or harmful, thoroughly explains how such treatments came to be accepted, and proposes a number of ways to address the general problem (only some of which involve avaricious companies and mercenary physicians) and minimize its impact on a specific patient."—Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices "Dr. Prasad and Dr. Cifu offer a five-step plan, including pointers for determining if a given treatment is really able to do what you want it to do, and advice on finding a like-minded doctor who won't object to a certain amount of back-seat driving."—The New York Times "When I describe Ending Medical Reversal as revolutionary, I don't use the term lightly. Go out and read it—right now."—Common Sense Family Doctor "Should be considered for undergraduate reading lists. Keep a copy in the pharmacy or your briefcase as a great icebreaker or discussion point with other local healthcare professionals."—The Pharmaceutical Journal

Doctor's Choice

Author : Maritta Philp
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683508203
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Doctor's Choice written by Maritta Philp and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor's Choice helps overwhelmed doctors discover the crucial steps they need to take to get clarity and find balance. Often, doctors’ relationships and health suffer due to excessive work-related stress and demands—sometimes even driving them to quit their practice. Is it even possible to be a doctor and also live a happy, stress-free life? Dr. Maritta Philp had been working as a doctor for over 20 years before the intensity and stress of modern medical practice inspired her to take a long, hard look at where the road she was on would lead. She realized the final destination for her would be one of burn-out and resentment, causing her to make different choices for her life and career. Maritta is passionate about enabling people to create a life they can be in love with, a life that reflects their most important ideas and values. Doctor's Choice explores in a no-nonsense manner the issues affecting today's doctors in a world of ever-increasing patient demand. Balancing the need to look after patients and themselves is a challenge which doctors need to meet for the benefit of all.