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Figures of Medicine

Author : François Delaporte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823244447
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Medicine written by François Delaporte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s? What does blood transfusion in Europe during the 17th century have in common with the discovery of mosquitoes as parasitic vectors in China at the close of the 19th century? And, last, how does the reconstruction of noses using skin flaps in Bologna in the 16th century relate to the opening of a forehead cyst in Guatemala in 1916? The six essays that form Figures of medicine, present a wealth of symmetries. Francois Delaporte shows that each epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement; problems reside not only in their objects but also in the historical situations in which they emerge. Focusing on efforts to resolve medical problems that are particular and nonetheless exemplary, Delaporte unpacks these separate cases to show howmultiple actors--over long periods of time and across different geographies--must be taken into account to remove epistemological blockages that stand in the way of understanding. A remarkable contribution to the history of science and medicine, this book shows the value of historical epistemology from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Statistics in Medicine

Author : Robert H. Riffenburgh
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Statistics in Medicine written by Robert H. Riffenburgh and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine deals with treatments that work often but not always, so treatment success must be based on probability. Statistical methods lift medical research from the anecdotal to measured levels of probability. This book presents the common statistical methods used in 90% of medical research, along with the underlying basics, in two parts: a textbook section for use by students in health care training programs, e.g., medical schools or residency training, and a reference section for use by practicing clinicians in reading medical literature and performing their own research. The book does not require a significant level of mathematical knowledge and couches the methods in multiple examples drawn from clinical medicine, giving it applicable context. Easy-to-follow format incorporates medical examples, step-by-step methods, and check yourself exercises Two-part design features course material and a professional reference section Chapter summaries provide a review of formulas, method algorithms, and check lists Companion site links to statistical databases that can be downloaded and used to perform the exercises from the book and practice statistical methods New in this Edition: New chapters on: multifactor tests on means of continuous data, equivalence testing, and advanced methods New topics include: trial randomization, treatment ethics in medical research, imputation of missing data, and making evidence-based medical decisions Updated database coverage and additional exercises Expanded coverage of numbers needed to treat and to benefit, and regression analysis including stepwise regression and Cox regression Thorough discussion on required sample size

How to Report Statistics in Medicine

Author : Thomas Allen Lang
Publisher : ACP Press
ISBN 13 : 1930513690
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book How to Report Statistics in Medicine written by Thomas Allen Lang and published by ACP Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive and comprehensible set of guidelines for reporting the statistical analyses and research designs and activities commonly used in biomedical research.

Evolution of Preventive Medicine

Author : Sir Arthur Newsholme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Preventive Medicine written by Sir Arthur Newsholme and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Western Medicine

Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199248131
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Western Medicine written by Irvine Loudon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the advance of western medicine from ancient Greece, through the contributions of the great Islamic physicians, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans and organ transplants. Highlighting the great medical discoveries, contributors cover such topics as the relationship in the Renaissance between medicine and art, the tension between the church and an increasingly secularized medical professional class, epidemics and the geography of disease, and changing attitudes towards childbirth, mental disease, and the doctor-patient relationship. c. Book News Inc.

Prescribing by Numbers

Author : Jeremy A. Greene
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801884772
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Prescribing by Numbers written by Jeremy A. Greene and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physician-historian Jeremy A. Greene examines the mechanisms by which drugs and chronic disease categories define one another within medical research, clinical practice, and pharmaceutical marketing, and he explores how this interaction has profoundly altered the experience, politics, ethics, and economy of health in late-twentieth-century America.

Doctors and Discoveries

Author : John Simmons
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618152766
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Doctors and Discoveries written by John Simmons and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.

Differences in Medicine

Author : Marc Berg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321743
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Differences in Medicine written by Marc Berg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western medicine is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. This book debunks this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of "conventional" Western medicine handle bodies, study test results, configure statistics, and converse with patients.

Medicine in the Middle Ages

Author : Ian Dawson
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781592700370
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Medicine in the Middle Ages written by Ian Dawson and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.

The Future of Public Health

Author : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309581907
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.

200 Years of American Medicine (1776-1976) ...

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book 200 Years of American Medicine (1776-1976) ... written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern medicine; its theory and practice

Author : William Osler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern medicine; its theory and practice written by William Osler and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health

Author : F. Svenaeus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401594589
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health written by F. Svenaeus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredrik Svenaeus' book is a delight to read. Not only does he exhibit keen understanding of a wide range of topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, but he manages to bring them together in an innovative manner that convincingly demonstrates how deeply these two significant fields can be and, in the end, must be mutually enlightening. Medicine, Svenaeus suggests, reveals deep but rarely explicit themes whose proper comprehension invites a careful phenomenological and hermeneutical explication. Certain philosophical approaches, on the other hand - specifically, Heidegger's phenomenology and Gadamer's hermeneutics - are shown to have a hitherto unrealized potential for making sense of those themes long buried within Western medicine. Richard M. Zaner, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

Author : Anton Sebastian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351469991
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the History of Medicine written by Anton Sebastian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique, extensively illustrated dictionary of terms, people, events, and dates spanning the entire history of medicine. It is a monumental work of scholarship totaling some 700 double-column pages with a large number of rare and exceptional illustrations from many original sources painstakingly compiled over years of far-searching inquiry involving more than 5,000 books and hundreds of journals. It is a major resource of hard-to-find information about notable medical figures, instruments, conditions, procedures, and dates and a storehouse of captivating anecdotes and background material. The book contains a wealth of material for concise historical introductions to a broad range of subjects and is the sine qua non authority on both well and little known facts of medical history. With this single volume-an unprecedented tour de force representing more than 7,000 hours of exhaustive research-clinicians and researchers from all fields of medicine can quickly and easily find authoritative, detailed definitions and descriptions, with dates, of medical terms and of the people and events contributing to the development of medicine from earliest times to the present day. The entries range widely from such as abacterial pyuria to zygote, including Latin and Greek origins of terms, compact biographies with dates, eponymic information of all kinds, and rarely seen drawings and photographs of antique medical instruments and little-known conditions.

The Truth about Big Medicine

Author : Cheryl L. Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442231603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Big Medicine written by Cheryl L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title drills deeply into the broken American health care industry--demonstrating how the medical industry's self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.

Improving Diagnosis in Health Care

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309377722
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Improving Diagnosis in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.

Revolutionary Medicine

Author : Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081475936X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Medicine written by Jeanne E Abrams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America. Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the Founding Fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America. Historian Jeanne E. Abrams’s Revolutionary Medicine refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and James and Dolley Madison away from politics to the perspective of sickness, health, and medicine. For the Founders, republican ideals fostered a reciprocal connection between individual health and the “health” of the nation. Studying the encounters of these American Founders with illness and disease, as well as their viewpoints about good health, not only provides a richer and more nuanced insight into their lives, but also opens a window into the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, which is at once intimate, personal, and first hand. Today’s American public health initiatives have their roots in the work of America’s Founders, for they recognized early on that government had compelling reasons to shoulder some new responsibilities with respect to ensuring the health and well-being of its citizenry—beginning the conversation about the country’s state of medicine and public healthcare that continues to be a work in progress.