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Author : Wellcome Trust (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Wellcome Trust Illustrated History of Tropical Diseases written by Wellcome Trust (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781869835866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Illustrated History of Tropical Diseases written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Cook
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080559395
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Tropical Medicine written by Gordon Cook and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances made by their predecessors. Written by Gordon Cook, contributor to the hugely popular Manson's Tropical Diseases, this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline.
Author : Sir Patrick Manson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tropical Diseases written by Sir Patrick Manson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vassil St. Georgiev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1603272976
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH written by Vassil St. Georgiev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH: Volume 2: Impact on Global Health covers the scientific aspects of the entire portfolio of NIAID, including microbiology and infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and immunology and vaccines. All major diseases and the relevant immunology and vaccine development are described in detail. In addition, all major NIAID programs, initiatives, and clinical trials are discussed and illustrate the global involvement of NIAID in biomedical research and its impact on public health worldwide. By providing this information, the global scientific community will be able to access and benefit from these programs and initiatives.
Author : Gordon C. Cook
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 070204332X
Total Pages : 1851 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Manson's Tropical Diseases written by Gordon C. Cook and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 1851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, be prepared for whatever your patients bring back. The revised and updated 22nd edition of Manson’s Tropical Diseases provides you with the latest coverage on emerging and re-emerging diseases from around the world, such as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and malaria, the avian flu, and more. Boxes and tables highlight key information on current therapies. Covers every aspect of Tropical Medicine in detail, not just infections. Takes both a system-based and a disease approach, with extensive cross-referencing to minimize duplication. Includes a strong clinical focus, emphasized by clinical management diagrams. Features leading experts in the field, with contributions from clinicians who are based full-time in the tropics. Features up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS, with an emphasis on Africa; malaria; tropical gastroenterological problems; dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever; tuberculosis; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; SARS; avian flu; bartonellosis, cat-scratch disease, trench fever, human erlichiosis; and more. Describes the latest therapies, such as recently approved drugs and new treatment options, so you can incorporate them into to your practice. Presents global perspectives from the world’s leaders in this specialty to put the latest expert knowledge to work for you and your patients. Highlights key information with more boxes and tables so you can find what you need easily and apply it quickly.
Author : C.M. Poser
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781850700685
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Malaria written by C.M. Poser and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a wonderfully readable, nearly novel-like but masterfully scholarly all-encompassing history of malaria, a disease that still kills 2 to 3 million people every year, with unprecedented documentation of its impact on human events. The book contains more than 250 rare illustrations from obscure sources as well as a bibliography and names and dates section plus index. No other work ever attempted matches this volume's stunning scope and depth of coverage of malaria as one the great scourges of mankind responsible for defeating conquering armies, altering the fate of besieged cities, devastating the Papal conclaves, barring progress and civilization in Victorian times, and blamed by some historians for the decline of Greek civilization, the fall of the Roman Empire, and hindering the colonization of Africa. A unique and special work for the legion of medical and general readers fascinated by the evolution of science and medicine over the centuries.
Author : Wallace Peters
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 032304364X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology written by Wallace Peters and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased global travel has changed the way we think about disease distribution. Diseases once considered of localised interest can be disseminated more readily than ever due to the increased speed of international travel. This is your perfect visual guide to diagnosing these diseases. The Sixth Edition of this internationally acclaimed atlas is the most comprehensive ever, with extensively revised text and more than 1200 stunning images. See the latest on such infections as the H5N1 strain of avian flu and West Nile Virus. Catch up with expanded coverage of the continuing of HIV/AIDS and related infections. Find information quicker and more easily with a new consistent chapter organisation. Get even more comprehensive visual coverage with hundreds of new, full-colour images. Use all of the book's 1200+ images to illustrate your PowerPoint presentations with the enclosed bonus CD-ROM.
Author : Helen J. Power
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136174141
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Tropical Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Helen J. Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Despite the upsurge of interest in the history of tropical medicine, international public health and the provision of health care in colonial and post-colonial tropical countries, no major text discusses the history of the academic discipline in the twentieth century. In Britain, the two Schools of Tropical Medicine opened within six months of each other in the final year of the nineteenth century. They have played a pivotal role in developing tropical medicine, as an academic discipline in postgraduate medicine with an active research profile. The Schools also affected the development of health care in the tropical colonies. They trained the Medical Officers of the Colonial Medical Service and the indigenous doctors whose training failed to include infectious endemic diseases and lacked an emphasis on community health. The Schools also contributed to a body of knowledge applied by the colonial powers, international agencies and independent nation states as part of their health care programmes. Ultimately the Schools helped the developing world to establish its own priorities for health. This volume charts the history of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from1898 to1990.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864267
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medicine written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
Author : Nancy Stepan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801438813
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Picturing Tropical Nature written by Nancy Stepan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.
Author : Irwin W. Sherman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1683670019
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Power of Plagues written by Irwin W. Sherman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic- causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history. Author Irwin W. Sherman introduces the microbes that caused these epidemics and the people who sought (and still seek) to understand how diseases and epidemics are managed. What makes this book especially fascinating are the many threads that Sherman weaves together as he explains how plagues past and present have shaped the outcome of wars and altered the course of medicine, religion, education, feudalism, and science. Cholera gave birth to the field of epidemiology. The bubonic plague epidemic that began in 1346 led to the formation of universities in cities far from the major centers of learning (and hot spots of the Black Death) at that time. And the Anopheles mosquito and malaria aided General George Washington during the American Revolution. Sadly, when microbes have inflicted death and suffering, people have sometimes responded by invoking discrimination, scapegoating, and quarantine, often unfairly, against races or classes of people presumed to be the cause of the epidemic. Pathogens are not the only stars of this book. Many scientists and physicians who toiled to understand, treat, and prevent these plagues are also featured. Sherman tells engaging tales of the development of vaccines, anesthesia, antiseptics, and antibiotics. This arsenal has dramatically reduced the suffering and death caused by infectious diseases, but these plague protectors are imperfect, due to their side effects or attenuation and because microbes almost invariably develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs. The Power of Plagues provides a sobering reminder that plagues are not a thing of the past. Along with the persistence of tuberculosis, malaria, river blindness, and AIDS, emerging and remerging epidemics continue to confound global and national public health efforts. West Nile virus, Lyme disease, and Ebola and Zika viruses are just some of the newest rogues to plague humans. The argument that civilization has been shaped to a significant degree by the power of plagues is compelling, and The Power of Plagues makes the case in an engaging and informative way that will be satisfying to scientists and non-scientists alike.
Author : Zelalem Temesgen
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199827621
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Mayo Clinic Infectious Diseases Board Review written by Zelalem Temesgen and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by practicing infectious diseases specialists at Mayo Clinic, this comprehensive, state-of-the-art publication covers current and essential clinical aspects of diseases likely to be encountered by the infectious disease specialist as well as to appear on the subspecialty infectious diseases board examination.
Author : Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387867
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Fatal Sleep written by Peter Kennedy and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bite of the tsetse fly - a burning sting into the skin - causes a descent into violent fever and aching pains. Severe bouts of insomnia are followed by mental deterioration, disruption of the nervous system, coma and ultimately death. Sleeping sickness, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is one of Africa's major killers. It puts 60 million people at risk of infection, occurs in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and claims the lives of many thousands of people every year. Transmitted by the tsetse fly, trypanosomiasis affects both humans and cattle. The animal form of the disease severely limits livestock production and farming, and in people the toxic effects of the treatment for the brain disease can be as painful and dangerous as the disease itself. Existing in the shadow of malaria and AIDS, it is an overlooked disease, ignored by pharmaceutical companies and largely neglected by the western world. Peter Kennedy has devoted much of his working life to researching sleeping sickness in Africa, and his autobiographical account shares not only his trials and experiences, evoking our empathy with the affected patients, but an explanation of the disease, including its history and its future. Interwoven with African geography, his compassionate story reveals what it is like to be a young doctor falling in love with Africa, and tells of his building of a vocation in the search for a cure for this cruel disease.
Author : Peter McCandless
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499149
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry written by Peter McCandless and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeenth century. Rice plantations spread north to the Cape Fear region of North Carolina and south to Georgia and northeast Florida in the late colonial period. The book examines perceptions and realities of the lowcountry disease environment; how the lowcountry became notorious for its 'tropical' fevers, notably malaria and yellow fever; how people combated, avoided or perversely denied the suffering they caused; and how diseases and human responses to them influenced not only the lowcountry and the South, but the United States, even helping to secure American independence.
Author : Gordon J Johnson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1911299514
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Epidemiology Of Eye Disease, The (Third Edition) written by Gordon J Johnson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is a comprehensive coverage of the epidemiology of the world's major blinding eye diseases, written by internationally acclaimed experts in each field. Edited by world-renowned epidemiologists and ophthalmologists, the chapters on each leading cause of blindness describe its biology, epidemiology, risk factors, clinical trials, possibilities for prevention, and new research avenues. New chapters include Research Synthesis, Epidemiology of Dry Eye Disease, and Epidemiology of Uveitis, as well as programme issues for reaching the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by 2020.This book is essential for any eye care practitioner interested in the causation or prevention of disease, and should be part of any public health discipline's library with a focus on improving eye health worldwide.
Author : Waltraud Ernst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134676441
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
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 287 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.
