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Maladies of Empire

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971728
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Maladies of Empire written by Jim Downs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of LondonÕs 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence NightingaleÕs contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjectsÑconscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.

The Emperor of All Maladies

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

The Laws of Medicine

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147678485X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Laws of Medicine written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

Medicine and Maladies

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368019
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Maladies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine and Maladies explores the socio-political and medical contexts that inform depictions of affliction in nineteenth-century France. It asks how cultural representations appropriate, critique, or develop medical discourse, and how medical writings incorporate literary examples to illustrate scientific hypotheses.

Bodies, Politics, and African Healing

Author : Stacey A. Langwick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300196X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Bodies, Politics, and African Healing written by Stacey A. Langwick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Maladies and Medicine

Author : Sara Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473875722
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Maladies and Medicine written by Sara Read and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant women healers who traveled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies. It covers the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century from more academic.

A Text-Book of the Medical Treatment of Diseases and Symptoms

Author : Nestor Isidore Charles Tirard
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781345260243
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Text-Book of the Medical Treatment of Diseases and Symptoms written by Nestor Isidore Charles Tirard and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-24 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Medicine and Slavery

Author : Todd Lee Savitt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252008740
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Slavery written by Todd Lee Savitt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination. In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.

Medical Epigenetics

Author : Trygve Tollefsbol
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128032405
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Medical Epigenetics written by Trygve Tollefsbol and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Epigenetics provides a comprehensive analysis of the importance of epigenetics to health management. The purpose of this book is to fill a current need for a comprehensive volume on the medical aspects of epigenetics with a focus on human systems, epigenetic diseases that affect these systems and modes of treating epigenetic-based disorders and diseases. The intent of this book is to provide a stand-alone comprehensive volume that will cover all human systems relevant to epigenetic maladies and all major aspects of medical epigenetics. The overall goal is to provide the leading book on medical epigenetics that will be useful not only to physicians, nurses, medical students and many others directly involved with health care, but also investigators in life sciences, biotech companies, graduate students and many others who are interested in more applied aspects of epigenetics. Research in the area of translational epigenetics is a cornerstone of this volume. Critical reviews dedicated to the burgeoning role of epigenetics in medical practice Coverage of emerging topics including twin epigenetics as well as epigenetics of gastrointestinal disease, muscle disorders, endocrine disorders, ocular medicine, pediatric diseases, sports medicine, noncoding RNA therapeutics, pain management and regenerative medicine Encompasses a disease-oriented perspective of medical epigenetics as well as diagnostic and prognostic epigenetic approaches to applied medicine

Disease and Medicine in World History

Author : Sheldon J. Watts
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415278164
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Disease and Medicine in World History written by Sheldon J. Watts and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, Sheldon Watts presents this concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world.

Interpreter of Maladies

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 039592720X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Interpreter of Maladies written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Medicine and Empire

Author : Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137374802
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Empire written by Pratik Chakrabarti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America. Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas: - The increasing influence of natural history on medicine - The growth of European drug markets - The rise of surgeons in status - Ideas of race and racism - Advancements in sanitation and public health - The expansion of the modern quarantine system - The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.

Golwalla's Medicine for Students

Author : Aspi F Golwalla
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9351524744
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Golwalla's Medicine for Students written by Aspi F Golwalla and published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition has been fully revised to present students with the latest developments in the field of clinical medicine. Divided into nineteen sections, the book covers all systems of the body, providing in depth explanations of disease aetiology, clinical features, diagnosis, management, and complications. Each topic is highly illustrated with clinical photographs, tables and diagrams with explanations. A ‘miscellaneous’ chapter covers topics such as nutrition, metabolic syndrome, chemical warfare, drugs with multiple indications, stem cell therapy and more. The final sections, ‘Notes’ and ‘What’s New’, are new to this edition and provide the latest terminology, drug tips and references to help students in their preparation for exams. Key Points Fully revised, new edition providing students with the latest developments in clinical medicine Covers disease diagnosis and management in all systems of the body Highly illustrated with nearly 3000 clinical photographs, diagrams, tables and algorithms across more than 1000 pages Previous edition (9789380206348) published in 1999

Maladies & Medicine

Author : Jennifer Evans
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473875730
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Maladies & Medicine written by Jennifer Evans and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of medical practices in early modern England: “Superb . . . an essential piece of social history.” —Books Monthly It was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood. Maladies and Medicine tells the story of how the body was understood before the major advances of modern medicine, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the hierarchy of healers, from university-trained physicians to the women who traveled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies, as well as the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century, from more academic medical textbooks to cheap almanacs. In twenty chapters discussing attitudes toward, and explanations of, some of the most common diseases and medical conditions of the period, the book reveals the ways people understood them and the steps they took to get better. It examines the body from head to toe, from migraines to gout. Case studies and personal anecdotes taken from doctors’ notes, personal journals, diaries, letters, and even court records show the reactions of individuals to their illnesses and treatments, bringing us into close proximity with people who lived roughly four centuries ago. This richly illustrated study will fascinate those curious about the history of the body and the way our ancestors lived.

Recent Advances in the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Skin

Author : Benjamin Joy Jeffries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Skin written by Benjamin Joy Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monographic Medicine: The clinical diagnosis of internal diseases

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
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Monographic Medicine: The clinical diagnosis of internal diseases; general diagnosis, infections, respiratory and circulatory systems, by L. F. Barker

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Monographic Medicine: The clinical diagnosis of internal diseases; general diagnosis, infections, respiratory and circulatory systems, by L. F. Barker written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: