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Walking Corpses

Author : Timothy S. Miller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801470765
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Walking Corpses written by Timothy S. Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidly expanding number of victims. As important as these events were, Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without also considering the Byzantine Empire, which confronted leprosy and its effects well before the Latin West. In Walking Corpses, they offer the first account of medieval leprosy that integrates the history of East and West.In their informative and engaging account, Miller and Nesbitt challenge a number of misperceptions and myths about medieval attitudes toward leprosy (known today as Hansen’s disease). They argue that ethical writings from the Byzantine world and from Catholic Europe never branded leprosy as punishment for sin; rather, theologians and moralists saw the disease as a mark of God’s favor on those chosen for heaven. The stimulus to ban lepers from society and ultimately to persecute them came not from Christian influence but from Germanic customary law. Leprosariums were not prisons to punish lepers but were centers of care to offer them support; some even provided both male and female residents the opportunity to govern their own communities under a form of written constitution. Informed by recent bioarchaeological research that has vastly expanded knowledge of the disease and its treatment by medieval society, Walking Corpses also includes three key Greek texts regarding leprosy (one of which has never been translated into English before).

Handbook of Leprosy

Author : W. H. Jopling
Publisher : Coronet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Leprosy written by W. H. Jopling and published by Coronet Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leprosy in Medieval England

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843834540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Leprosy in Medieval England written by Carole Rawcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings than any other.

IAL Textbook of Leprosy

Author : Bhushan Kumar
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9354654541
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)

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Book Synopsis IAL Textbook of Leprosy by : Bhushan Kumar

Download or read book IAL Textbook of Leprosy written by Bhushan Kumar and published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leprosy and Empire

Author : Rod Edmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462873
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Leprosy and Empire written by Rod Edmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.

Evidence Based Dermatology

Author : Howard I. Maibach
Publisher : PMPH-USA
ISBN 13 : 9781607950394
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidence Based Dermatology by : Howard I. Maibach

Download or read book Evidence Based Dermatology written by Howard I. Maibach and published by PMPH-USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence-based thinking in clinical medicine has impacted greatly on the physician's approach to clinical care. Evidence-Based Dermatology introduces and encourages the concept of evidence-based patient care in dermatology. Incorporating a text that is much more than merely the summary of trial data, the authors worked to explore disease mechanisms and treatments in greater depth and detail in order to provide more insight for the reader. In addition to promoting the understanding of the evidence-based philosophy, the authors have focused on some of the fundamentals in dermatology that need to be approached differently. Issues such as the interpretation of clinical research, disease-oriented evidence versus patient-care evidence, and the use of placebo are examined.

Concepts of Epidemiology

Author : Raj S. Bhopal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198739680
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Epidemiology written by Raj S. Bhopal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition published in 2002. Second edition published in 2008.

Grundzüge einer historischen und geographischen Pathologie / Pathological Anatomy of Mediterranean and Tropical Diseases

Author : F. Henschen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642481272
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Grundzüge einer historischen und geographischen Pathologie / Pathological Anatomy of Mediterranean and Tropical Diseases written by F. Henschen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Krankheiten sind keine unvedinderlichen Erscheinungen, sie sind histo rischen Wandlungen und wechselnden geographischen und demographischen Ver haltnissen unterworfen. Deshalb wechselt auch das Gesamtbild der Krankheiten, das Krankheitspanorama, von Zeit zu Zeit, von Land zu Land, von Ort zu Ort. Zu den vielen Faktoren, die bei der Gestaltung des Krankheitspanoramas wirksam sind, geh6ren die Ernahrungsverhaltnisse, die sozialen und hygienischen Verhalt nisse, die Epi-und Endemien und Epi-und Enzootien mit der nachher eintreten den Immunitat, die Fortschritte der medizinischen Forschung und Therapie und schliel3lich die mit den anderen Faktoren eng verbundenen Veranderungen der mittleren Lebenslange, also heutzutage die starke Steigerung derselben, vor aHem in groBen Teilen von Europa und Nordamerika. Diese Wandlungen des Krank heitspanoramas haben u. a. HARBITZ, HENSCHEN, CmARl, KUHNT, BODECHTEL, BERG, MUNCK, HAMPERL und LOFFLER behandelt. DOERR et al. haben den Wandel der Krankheitsbilder in einer gr6Beren Arbeit abgehandelt. Auf die pathogene tische Bedeutung der starken sozial-6konomischen Umwandlungen im heutigen Afrika hat MURRAY neuerdings die Aufmerksamkeit gerichtet. In Landern mit zuverlassigen statistischen Angaben sind Veranderungen der Morbiditat und Mortalitat schon innerhalb relativ kurzer Zeitintervalle bemerkbar. Ais Beispiel sei folgende Tabelle angefUhrt, die schwedische Verhaltnisse betrifft und die Verschiebungen der Mortalitat innerhalb einiger der wichtigsten Krank heitsgruppen zeigt. In die TabeHe sind nur die wichtigsten Gruppen aufgenom men, die gr6Bere Veranderungen zeigen.

An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin

Author : Adria L. Imada
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520975200
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin written by Adria L. Imada and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and children suspected of having leprosy were removed from their families. Most were sentenced over the next century to lifelong exile at an isolated settlement. Thousands of photographs taken of their skin provided forceful, if conflicting, evidence of disease and disability for colonial health agents. And yet among these exiled people, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during their incarceration. This book shows how they pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography.

Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Local and Community Driven Development

Author : Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821381954
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Local and Community Driven Development written by Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Local and Community Driven Development: Moving to Scale in Theory and Practice' provides development practitioners with the historical background and the tools required to successfully scale up local and community driven development (LCDD) to the regional and national levels. LCDD gives control of development decisions and resources to communities and local governments. It involves collaboration between communities, local governments, technical agencies, and the private sector. Since the 1980s, participatory approaches have received new impetus via participatory rural appraisal, the integration of participation in sector programs, decentralization efforts of developing countries, and greater space for civil society and the private sector. This book traces the emergence of the LCDD synthesis from these various strands. 'Local and Community Driven Development' provides the theoretical underpinnings for scaling up, guidance on how to adapt the approach to the specific institutional and political settings of different countries, diagnostic tools, and step-by-step instructions to diagnose the national context, adapt policies, and expand programs. It will be a useful guide for rural and urban development practitioners, public administrators, and policy makers who wrestle daily with the problems the book addresses.

The Burdens of Disease

Author : J. N. Hays
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548179
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Burdens of Disease written by J. N. Hays and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the original edition of The Burdens of Disease that appeared in ISIS stated, "Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a message: That epidemics are primarily dependent on poverty and that the West has consistently refused to accept this." This revised edition confirms the book's timely value and provides a sweeping approach to the history of disease. In this updated volume, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. This revised edition of The Burdens of Disease also studies the victims of epidemics, paying close attention to the relationships among poverty, power, and disease.

Leprosy in Premodern Medicine

Author : Luke Demaitre
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801891973
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Leprosy in Premodern Medicine written by Luke Demaitre and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a “disease of the soul,” physicians in the period understood it to be a “cancer of the whole body.” In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg. Extending his inquiry from the first century to late in the eighteenth century, Demaitre draws on translations of academic treatises and archival records to illuminate the professional standing, knowledge, and conduct of the practitioners who struggled to move popular perceptions of leprosy beyond loathing and pity. He finds that, while not immune to social and cultural perceptions of the leprous as degenerate, and while influenced by their own fears of contagion, premodern physicians moderated society's reactions to leprosy and were dedicated to the well-being of their patients.

Tropical Pathology

Author : H. Spencer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662002264
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Pathology written by H. Spencer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General pathology works nomothetically, whereas specific pathology works idiographically. Modern pathological anatomy on the other hand seeks to rise above the level of merely gathering data and to proceed to a practical knowledge of defined pathological aspects and patterns. jEAN MARTIN CHARCOT's con ception of the entite morbide as the abstract basis of nosologically independent phenomena is paradigmatically corroborated in an especially impressive way by the study of tropical diseases. And so the idea suggested itself that we should present the main pathological patterns from tht; fielq. of tropical pathology with particular reference to their interconnection. We s~on came to the firm con clusion that such a compilation could be success_iully ~undertaken only by a pathologist from the English-speaking world. The. classic practical knowledge of our British colleagues, which has matured in world-wide experience, would be bound to find its ideal verification here. And so we turned for help to our friend Prof. WALTER PAGEL (Dr. med., Dr. h. c. Basle, Dr. h. c. Heidelberg) in London. He immediately referred us to Prof. HERBERT SPENCER. That we managed to enlist the help of Professor SPENCER is entirely due to Professor PAGEL's kind offices. We owe the fact that the undertak ing has been completed in relatively so short a time to Professor SPENCER's exceptional knowledge both of his subject and of the field-workers themselves.

Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains

Author : Jane E. Buikstra
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128099011
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains written by Jane E. Buikstra and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of the pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton. As ancient skeletal remains can reveal a treasure trove of information to the modern orthopedist, pathologist, forensic anthropologist, and radiologist, this book presents a timely resource. Beautifully illustrated with over 1,100 photographs and drawings, it provides an essential text and material on bone pathology, thus helping improve the diagnostic ability of those interested in human dry bone pathology. - Presents a comprehensive review of the skeletal diseases encountered in archaeological human remains - Includes more than 1100 photographs and line drawings illustrating skeletal diseases, including both microscopic and gross features - Based on extensive research on skeletal paleopathology in many countries - Reviews important theoretical issues on how to interpret evidence of skeletal disease in archaeological human populations

Hansen’s Disease

Author : Patrícia D. Deps
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303130893X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Hansen’s Disease written by Patrícia D. Deps and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hansen’s disease (leprosy) is endemic in more than 100 countries worldwide, with over 200,000 new diagnoses each year and more than 4 million people living with some form of HD-related impairment. The World Health Organization’s ‘Global Leprosy Strategy’ timeline for Hansen’s disease elimination indicates that it will be encountered in clinical practice in endemic countries for at least another decade. Increasing north-to-south migration, global travel and overseas medical work mean that physicians in non-endemic countries will also encounter patients with Hansen’s disease, which can affect people for many years before diagnosis and after treatment. For busy clinicians, it represents a challenge, in terms of disease learning and updating knowledge and skills. This book provides a concise, up-to-date, and comprehensive source of information on Hansen’s disease clinical practice. It covers essential topics on all clinical aspects, complemented by history, epidemiology, paleopathology, and the social impact of the disease. Edited and written by contributors with decades of experience, it’s divided into twenty-six chapters clarifying the genetics and neurological manifestations, physical disabilities and its prevention; oral, ophthalmological, and bone changes, among others. For the primary audience of practicing physicians, it is an affordable point of reference, whilst also being suitable for student and trainee doctors. It’s also accessible to general practitioners and specialists in dermatology, neurology, pediatrics, infectious disease, family and community medicine, and orthopedics, as well as to non-specialists and other healthcare professionals.

Leprosy, Racism, And Public Health

Author : Zachary Gussow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718543
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Leprosy, Racism, And Public Health written by Zachary Gussow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on leprosy in a country with which this 'tropical' disease is rarely associated in the professional or public mind; the United States. An important scholarly contribution where Gussow argues that academic neglect and absence of comparative studies of lepraphobia have been fuelled by default the myth that aversion to leprosy is and has been universal.