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The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786709670
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new "miracle" cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to what the Los Angeles Times cited as "a sobering, contrarian challenge" to the "nostrum of medicine as a never-ending font of ‘miracle cures'." "[From] a respected science writer ... important information that ... has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians." —New Republic "Provocative and engrossing and informative." —Houston Chronicle "Marvelously written, meticulously researched ... one of the most thought-provoking and important works to appear in recent years." —Choice

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780349112800
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 1999 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine presents a comprehensive and searching reappraisal of the science, philosophy and politics of modern medicine.

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465058892
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson’s, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this judicious examination of medicine in our times, which has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new “miracle” cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to what the Los Angeles Times cited as “a sobering, contrarian challenge” to the “nostrum of medicine as a never-ending font of ‘miracle cures’.” “[From] a respected science writer ... important information that ... has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians.”—New Republic “Provocative and engrossing and informative.”—Houston Chronicle “Marvelously written, meticulously researched ... one of the most thought-provoking and important works to appear in recent years.”—Choice

The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748131434
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early death, But, since the mid-1970s the rate of development has slowed, and the future of medicine is uncertain. How has this happened? James Le Fanu's hugely acclaimed survey of the 'twelve definitive moments' of modern medicine and the intellectual vacuum which followed them has been fully revised and updated for this edition. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine is both riveting drama and a clarion call for change.

Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine

Author : Thomas H. Lee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726561
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine by : Thomas H. Lee

Download or read book Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine written by Thomas H. Lee and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the improved survival rate from heart attack can be traced to Eugene Braunwald's work. He proved that myocardial infarction was an hours-long dynamic process which could be altered by treatment. Thomas H. Lee tells the life story of a physician whose activist approach transformed not just cardiology but the culture of American medicine.

Why Us?

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307378071
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Why Us? written by James Le Fanu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this daring treatise on the current state of scientific inquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption that further progress in genetic research and neuroscience must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s place in the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most recent scientific findings point to an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the beauty and diversity of the living world—and between the electrical activity of the brain and the abundant creativity of the human mind. His exploration of these mysteries, and his analysis of where they might lead us in our thinking about the nature and purpose of human existence, form the impassioned and riveting heart of Why Us?

Hughes Syndrome

Author : Munther A Khamashta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447136667
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Hughes Syndrome written by Munther A Khamashta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983 Graham Hughes described a syndrome in which the blood has a tendency to clot. Hughes syndrome is at the root of diverse conditions such as stroke, leg vein thrombosis and recurrent abortion. Hughes Syndrome addresses the complete range of features produced by this common disorder, which is also known as antiphospholipid syndrome. The condition can affect any organ, and is treated using commonly available drugs including low-dose aspirin and warfarin. This timely book fulfils the need for a cross-disciplinary clinical textbook and contains contributions from the leading international authorities. Hughes Syndrome should be read by anyone who might have a clinical or scientific interest in this condition: rheumatologists, haematologists, obstetricians and neurologists.

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Author : Paul Starr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780465079353
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review

Too Many Pills

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9781408709788
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Too Many Pills written by James Le Fanu and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the blood pressure and sugar levels, statins, bone strengthening and cardio protective drugs. In Too Many Pills, doctor and writer James Le Fanu examines how this progressive medicalisation of people's lives now poses a major threat to their health and wellbeing, responsible for a hidden epidemic of drug induced illness (muscular aches and pains, lethargy, insomnia, impaired memory and general decrepitude), a sharp increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions for serious side effects and implicated in the recently noted decline in life expectancy. The paradoxically harmful, if increasingly well recognised, consequences of too much medicine are illustrated by the remarkable personal testimony of the readers of James Le Fanu's weekly medical column, coerced into taking drugs they do not need, debilitated by their adverse effects - and their almost miraculous recovery on discontinuing them. The only solution, he argues, is for the public to take the initiative. His review of the relevant evidence for the efficacy, or otherwise, of commonly prescribed drugs should allow readers of Too Many Pills to ask much more searching questions about the benefits and risks of the medicines they are taking.

What Matters in Medicine

Author : David Loxterkamp
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047211865X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book What Matters in Medicine written by David Loxterkamp and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest and insightful reflection on lessons learned about primary care from a life as a small town doctor

Rise of the Modern Hospital

Author : Jeanne Kisacky
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981610
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Modern Hospital written by Jeanne Kisacky and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized structures. Jeanne Kisacky reveals the changing role of the hospital within the city, the competing claims of doctors and architects for expertise in hospital design, and the influence of new medical theories and practices on established traditions. She traces the dilemma designers faced between creating an environment that could function as a therapy in and of itself and an environment that was essentially a tool for the facilitation of increasingly technologically assisted medical procedures. Heavily illustrated with floor plans, drawings, and photographs, this book considers the hospital building as both a cultural artifact, revelatory of external medical and social change, and a cultural determinant, actively shaping what could and did take place within hospitals.

Seeking the Cure

Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171734
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Seeking the Cure written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seeking the Cure tells the tale of American medicine with a series of little-known anecdotes that bring to life the grand and unceasing struggle by physicians to shed unsound, if venerated, beliefs and practices and adopt new medicines and treatments, often in the face of controversy and scorn. Rutkow expertly weaves the stories of individual doctors—what they believed and how they practiced—with the economic, political, and social issues facing the nation. Among the book’s many historical personages are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington (whose timely adoption of a controversial medical practice probably saved the Continental Army), Benjamin Rush, James Garfield (who was killed by his doctors, not by an assassin’s bullet), and Joseph Lister. The book touches such diverse topics as smallpox and the Revolutionary War, the establishment of the first medical schools, medicine during the Civil War, railroad medicine and the beginnings of specialization, the rise of the medical-industrial complex, and the thrilling yet costly advent of modern disease-curing technologies utterly unimaginable a generation ago, such as gene therapies, body scanners, and robotic surgeries. In our time of spirited national debate over the future of American health care amid a seemingly infinite flow of new medical discoveries and pharmaceutical products, Rutkow’s account provides readers with an essential historic, social, and even philosophical context. Working in the grand American literary tradition established by such eminent writer-doctors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks, he combines the historian’s perspective with the physician’s seasoned expertise. Capacious, learned, and gracefully told, Seeking the Cure will satisfy armchair historians and doctors alike, for, as Rutkow shows, the history of American medicine is a portrait of America itself.

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

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.

Surviving Modern Medicine

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813525556
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Modern Medicine written by Peter Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the steps consumers must take to navigate the confusing world of medicine to improve the quality of care received

The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model

Author : S. Nassir Ghaemi
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801893909
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model written by S. Nassir Ghaemi and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in the twentieth century as an outgrowth of psychosomatic medicine, the biopsychosocial model is seen as an antidote to the constraints of the medical model of psychiatry. Nassir Ghaemi details the origins and evolution of the BPS model and explains how, where, and why it fails to live up to its promises. He analyzes the works of its founders, George Engel and Roy Grinker Sr., traces its rise in acceptance, and discusses its relation to the thought of William Osler and Karl Jaspers.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine; a Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation, in April, 1913

Author : William Osler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015817210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Modern Medicine; a Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation, in April, 1913 written by William Osler and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 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 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. 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.