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Eighteenth Century Campaign To Avoid Disease
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Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Campaign To Avoid Disease by : James C Riley
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Campaign To Avoid Disease written by James C Riley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-04-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medicine in Society by : Andrew Wear
Download or read book Medicine in Society written by Andrew Wear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialised papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesises, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this 'new social history' of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalised medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovatory topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe by : Peter H. Wilson
Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Peter H. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
Book Synopsis The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century by : Andrew Cunningham
Download or read book The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
Book Synopsis Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age by : Adam Sundberg
Download or read book Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age written by Adam Sundberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.
Book Synopsis The Anthropological Demography of Health by : Véronique Petit
Download or read book The Anthropological Demography of Health written by Véronique Petit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing. By observing group formation and change over time, tracking people's networks, and observing variance between what people say and do, anthropological demography goes beyond the characteristically top-down formal methodologies of most mainstream socio-economic demography and population health. This path-breaking volume charts and integrates the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health. It offers a clear agenda based on important conceptual and methodological advances, and often working in close collaboration with medical and historical research. Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials. The Anthropological Demography of Health offers a clear agenda for the application and extension of combined anthropological and demographic thinking in population health, and will provide a point of reference for the field.
Book Synopsis Childcare, health and mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800 by : Alysa Levene
Download or read book Childcare, health and mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800 written by Alysa Levene and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough and engaging examination of an institution and its young charges, set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, the book illustrates the variety of pathways to health, ill-health and death taken by the young and how it intersected with local epidemiology, institutional life and experiences of abandonment, feeding and child-care. For the first time, the characteristics of the babies abandoned to the London Foundling Hospital have been examined, highlighting the reasons parents and guardians had for giving up their charges. Clearly presented statistical analysis shows how these characteristics interacted with poverty and welfare to influence heath and survivorship across infancy and early childhood. The book builds up sources from Foundling Hospital records, medical tracts and parish registers to illustrate how the hospital managed the care of its children, and how it reflected wider medical ideas on feeding and child health. Child fostering, paid nursing and family formation in different parts of England are also examined, showing how this metropolitan institution called on a network of contacts to try to raise its charges to good health. This book will be of considerable significance to scholars working in economic and social history, medical and institutional history and histories of childhood and childcare in the early modern period. It will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in child-rearing and feeding practices, and inter-family relationships
Book Synopsis Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 by : Waltraud Ernst
Download or read book Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories.
Download or read book Death in England written by Peter C. Jupp and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book charts the story of the way in which our forebears coped with aspects of their daily lives.
Book Synopsis 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' by : Deborah Madden
Download or read book 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' written by Deborah Madden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley’s Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular – and controversial – status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period’s most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley’s work in the context of his theology, ‘A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine’ extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine. Wesley was on a theological mission to recover the primitive purity of the first Christians. Yet the remedies contained within Primitive Physic suggest a pragmatic thinker, whose concern for spiritual health did not prevent him from providing practical assistance to those who needed it. The evolution of Wesley’s thinking also demonstrates some of the struggles he faced as leader of the Methodist movement, such as the way he handled contemporary criticism of Primitive Physic when religious ‘enthusiasm’ was often conflated with medical ‘quackery’. 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' will be of interest not only to medical and literary historians, but to anyone who is interested in the way religion influences medicine.
Book Synopsis British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830 by :
Download or read book British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society. British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, ‘a good thing’. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested. Sometimes changes were imposed that cannot be characterised as improvements. British Military and Naval Medicine also points to opportunities for further research in this exciting field of study.
Book Synopsis Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe by : Mary Lindemann
Download or read book Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe written by Mary Lindemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Book Synopsis Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833 by : Tim Fulford
Download or read book Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833 written by Tim Fulford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Mission and Method by : Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge
Download or read book Mission and Method written by Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the french led the way in the nineteenth-century public health movement.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Urban History of Britain by : Peter Clark
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
Book Synopsis Wounded Planet by : Henk A.M.J. ten Have
Download or read book Wounded Planet written by Henk A.M.J. ten Have and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and bioethics. We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean air, safe water, adequate nutrition, effective drugs, and protection from infectious diseases. Today's healthcare experts and policymakers are keenly aware that biodiversity is one of the crucial determinants of health—not only for individuals but also for the human population of the planet. Unfortunately, rapid globalization and ongoing environmental degradation mean that biodiversity is rapidly deteriorating, threatening planetary health on a mass scale. In Wounded Planet, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues that the ethical debate about healthcare has become too narrow and individualized. We must, he writes, adopt a new bioethical discourse—one that deals with issues of justice, equality, vulnerability, human rights, and solidarity—in order to adequately reflect the serious threat that current loss of biodiversity poses to planetary health. Exploring modern environmental challenges in depth, ten Have persuasively demonstrates that environmental concerns can no longer be separated from healthcare challenges, and thus should be included in global bioethics. Going beyond an individualized perspective, he poses audacious questions: What does it mean that patients are poor or uninsured and cannot afford suggested medicines? How can we deal with the air and water pollution that are producing a patient's illness? How do we respond to patients complaining about the safety and quality of drinking water in their neighborhood? Touching on infectious and noncommunicable diseases, as well as food, medicine, and water, Wounded Planet transcends the limited vision of mainstream bioethics to compassionately reveal how healthcare and medicine must take a broad perspective that includes the social and environmental conditions in which individuals live.
Download or read book Sweet and Clean? written by Susan North and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the washing of bodies and scrubbing of clothes in early modern England.