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Health and the Rise of Civilization

Author : Mark Nathan Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300050233
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Health and the Rise of Civilization written by Mark Nathan Cohen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilized nations popularly assume that "primitive" societies are poor, ill, and malnourished and that progress through civilization automatically implies improved health. In this provocative new book, Mark Nathan Cohen challenges this belief. Using evidence from epidemiology, anthropology, and archaeology, Cohen provides fascinating evidence about the actual effects of civilization on health, suggesting that some aspects of civilization create as many health problems as they prevent or cure. " This book] is certain to become a classic-a prominent and respected source on this subject for years into the future. . . . If you want to read something that will make you think, reflect and reconsider, Cohen's Health and the Rise of Civilization is for you."-S. Boyd Eaton, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A major accomplishment. Cohen is a broad and original thinker who states his views in direct and accessible prose. . . . This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in disease, civilization, and the human condition."-David Courtwright, Journal of the History of Medicine "Deserves to be read by anthropologists concerned with health, medical personnel responsible for communities, and any medical anthropologists whose minds are not too case-hardened. Indeed, it could provide great profit and entertainment to the general reader."-George T. Nurse, Current Anthropology "Cohen has done his homework extraordinarily well, and the coverage of the biomedical, nutritional, demographic, and ethnographic literature about foragers and low energy agriculturists is excellent. The subject of culture and health is near the core of a lot of areas of archaeology and ethnology as well as demography, development economics, and so on. The book deserves a wide readership and a central place in our professional libraries. As a scholarly summary it is without parallel."-Henry Harpending, American Ethnologist

Health, Civilization and the State

Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134637187
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Health, Civilization and the State written by Dorothy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.

Health, Civilization and the State

Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134637179
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Health, Civilization and the State written by Dorothy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.

Diet and the Disease of Civilization

Author : Adrienne Rose Bitar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813589665
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Diet and the Disease of Civilization written by Adrienne Rose Bitar and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it’s not calories—but concepts—that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the “Fall of Man” as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. Bitar reads each diet—the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet—as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. Diet and the Disease of Civilization unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world.

Civilization and Health

Author : Woods Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Health written by Woods Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civilization and Health

Author : Woods Hutchinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330354513
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Health written by Woods Hutchinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civilization and Health Nothing is more dangerous than strict logic - which is not quite sure of its premises. Some of the most damnable errors of history have been perfectly sound, logical conclusions from data which everybody knew to be sound and no one even doubted, - but which afterwards turned out to be false. Nothing outside of a book ever goes on to its full logical conclusion. Especially is this true in the realm of disease. To paraphrase Hamlet's famous lines, - For by strict justice None of us should see salvation. From the number and deadliness of the maladies that lie in wait for us we have no logical right to expect to survive; and yet we are here in defiance of logic. Of course, this world is a dangerous place and few of us ever get out of it alive; yet the race goes right on firing, somehow, undaunted in spite of the new and terrible diseases that medical science keeps discovering. It is easy enough to construct a prognostic for any disease which will be perfectly logical and absolutely appalling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Medicine and Western Civilization

Author : David J. Rothman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521909
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Western Civilization written by David J. Rothman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.

Health and the Rise of Civilization

Author : Mark Nathan Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Health and the Rise of Civilization written by Mark Nathan Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War in Human Civilization

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199236631
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book War in Human Civilization written by Azar Gat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? And what of war today: is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? This book sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt to unravel the riddle of war throughout human history.

Civilization and Health (Classic Reprint)

Author : Woods Hutchinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483310278
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Health (Classic Reprint) written by Woods Hutchinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civilization and Health Strange as it may seem, we have no positive proof of the origin Of a single new serious disease since the dawn of recorded history. At least seventy per cent Of all our serious diseases were well known to the Greeks and probably to the Egyptians. And the probability is that nearly half the remainder were also in existence then, though Bright's Disease, for instance, was only clearly recognized and traced to its anatomical cause, the kidney, some eighty years ago by Dr. Richard Bright, of Guy's Hospital, London, whose name it now bears. It had certainly existed for centuries, and prob ably for thousands of years before that. Obviously, any statement as to its being more or less common in the nineteenth century than, say, the fourteenth, can be nothing better than the merest guess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Service of Medicine to Civilization

Author : Victor Clarence Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Service of Medicine to Civilization written by Victor Clarence Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marks of Civilization

Author : Arnold Rubin
Publisher : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marks of Civilization written by Arnold Rubin and published by University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History. This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body piercing, scarification, tattooing - for thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social meaning. This collection of essays, photographs and drawings focuses on the many and diverse ways that human beings have permanently decorated their bodies.

Civilization and Disease

Author : Henry E. Sigerist
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723448
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Disease written by Henry E. Sigerist and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist delivered at Cornell University in 1940. Now back in print, the book is a wide-ranging account of the importance of social factors on health and illness and the impact that disease has had on societies throughout human history. Despite considerable advances in both medicine and historiography, Civilization and Disease remains a landmark work in the history of medicine and a fascinating look at, first, civilization as a factor in the genesis and spread of disease, and second, the effects of disease on such aspects of civilization as economics, social life, law, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts. In a new foreword written for this edition, Elizabeth Fee outlines Sigerist’s life, works, and legacy as a historian, a teacher, and an advocate for universal health care, hailing Civilization and Disease as "an excellent introduction to Sigerist’s work."

Civilization and Disease

Author : Henry Ernest Sigerist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Disease written by Henry Ernest Sigerist and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cancer: disease of civilization?

Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher : David De Angelis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cancer: disease of civilization? written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vilhjalmur Stefansson has had the extraordinary privilege and the rare merit to know intimately certain segments of the world which will always be strange to most of us. He has had the alertness to note details, to make correlations which would have escaped others. He has been unhampered by professional or even by lay prejudices. And he has a gift for expressing the ideas which his observations have evoked. The story which he presents in this book is a fascinating one. Here is the sort of thing we call basic research, just as much so as if it were being conducted in the latest of laboratories. Here are the data from a series of experiments which Nature has performed for us—in the Arctic northland, in the tropic forests of Gabon, and in the temperate valley of Hunzaland. She has varied a series of environmental factors yet come up with a like result in the three places, and a result which she has produced, so far as we know, only in those three special combinations of environments, not in any other of her myriads of combinations elsewhere. What have these three in common, that they produce this result, so important to us? Nature will not repeat those experiments. And we will not have another Stefansson to read the data and present them to us. I hope, therefore, that what he has to say will be read carefully and pondered deeply.

Disease and Civilization

Author : François Delaporte
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540551
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Disease and Civilization written by François Delaporte and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed the lives of 18,000 people in Paris alone, was a watershed in the history of medicine: In France, it shook the complacency of a medical establishment that thought it had the means to prevent any onslaught and led to a revolution in the concept of public health.Francois Delaporte teaches at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.

Dirt

Author : David R. Montgomery
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933168
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Dirt written by David R. Montgomery and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.