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Book Synopsis The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science) by : Roy Porter
Download or read book The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science) written by Roy Porter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-10-17 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D. Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to today's threat of AIDS and ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book "has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field" (The Lancet). "The author's perceptiveness is, as usual, scalpel-sharp; his manner genially bedside; his erudition invigorating." - Simon Schama
Book Synopsis For the Good of Mankind? by : Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
Download or read book For the Good of Mankind? written by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia. Result: The beginnings of modern gynecology. Incidents like these paved the way for crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries. But they also harmed and humiliated their test subjects, many of whom did not agree to the experiments in the first place. How do doctors balance the need to test new medicines and procedures with their ethical duty to protect the rights of human subjects? Take a harrowing journey through some of history's greatest medical advances?and its most horrifying medical atrocities?to discover how human suffering has gone hand in hand with medical advancement.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by : Roy Porter
Download or read book The Greatest Benefit to Mankind written by Roy Porter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greatest Benefit To Mankind by : Roy Porter
Download or read book Greatest Benefit To Mankind written by Roy Porter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-10-17 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new comprehensive book on the history of medicine.
Book Synopsis Nature's Medicine by : Joel L. Swerdlow
Download or read book Nature's Medicine written by Joel L. Swerdlow and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial: The Kizman Family.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309468086 Total Pages :235 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Making Medicines Affordable by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.
Download or read book Aspirin written by Diarmuid Jeffreys and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, medical-historical mystery, filled with twists and turns.-Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis For the Good of Mankind? by : Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
Download or read book For the Good of Mankind? written by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia. Result: The beginnings of modern gynecology. Incidents like these paved the way for crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries. But they also harmed and humiliated their test subjects. How do doctors balance the need to test new medicines and procedures with their ethical duty to protect the rights of humans? Take a journey through some of history's greatest medical advances—and its most horrifying medical atrocities—to discover how human suffering has gone hand in hand with medical advancement.
Download or read book Medicine of Mankind written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medical History of Mankind by : Andrey Nabokov
Download or read book Medical History of Mankind written by Andrey Nabokov and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals a new look at medicine and Health Care System as a factor that significantly influences the history of mankind as a species. Considering the well-known facts from a different angle, systematically filed material clearly and simply traced the history of mankind from a medical point of view. It turns out that the medical profession had great influence on the destiny of mankind, creating additional opportunities for those populations where medicine has evolved. Thus, the future of many countries will directly depend on the quality of the health system. The book will be of interest to all who are thinking about the future of medicine: experienced physicians, policy-makers and healthcare managers, and medical students.
Book Synopsis For the Welfare of Mankind by : Abner M. Harvey
Download or read book For the Welfare of Mankind written by Abner M. Harvey and published by . This book was released on with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medicine and Mankind by : New York Academy of Medicine
Download or read book Medicine and Mankind written by New York Academy of Medicine and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains a series of lectures from the New York Academy of Medicine, which seek to educate the public on medicine and scientific inquiry.
Book Synopsis Murderous Medicine by : Naomi Baumslag
Download or read book Murderous Medicine written by Naomi Baumslag and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.
Book Synopsis Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor by : Jie Jack Li
Download or read book Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor written by Jie Jack Li and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jie Jack Li is a medicinal chemist and is intimately involved with drug discovery. Through extensive research and interviews with the inventors of drugs, including those of Viagra and Lipitor, he has assembled an astounding number of facts and anecdotes, as well as much useful information about important drugs we know and use in our lives today. Figures, diagrams, and illustrations highlight the text throughout."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Herbal Medicine by : Iris F. F. Benzie
Download or read book Herbal Medicine written by Iris F. F. Benzie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global popularity of herbal supplements and the promise they hold in treating various disease states has caused an unprecedented interest in understanding the molecular basis of the biological activity of traditional remedies. Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects focuses on presenting current scientific evidence of biomolecular ef
Book Synopsis Medicine for Mankind by : Michael Eidam
Download or read book Medicine for Mankind written by Michael Eidam and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2084, and the U.S. has so thoroughly embraced big government that the Wapols (Washington politicians) and their army of pubrats (public bureaucrats) monitor your diet, your finances, even your sex life. But what happens when an omni-present government becomes impotent? In the spirit of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, and Rand's Atlas Shrugged, but written with the style and wit of Kurt Vonnegut, Eidam offers a humorous and thought-provoking cautionary tale against trading away our freedoms to a tech-empowered nanny-state, and asks if it's possible for mankind to become so dependent, we lose the ability to live free. When a virus threatens to wipe out all of mankind, President Poll and his D.C. cronies escape to a survival shelter leaving the rest of the world to perish. However, while the Wapols are safely locked away in their bubble, a reclusive tech genius does what all the experts said was impossible: he develops a treatment that will save mankind from extinction. Only, he won't release it unconditionally; he wants to make sure mankind is worth saving first. Opting to remain anonymous, the man enlists Clyde Sexler, a sixteen-year-old social reject, to issue his demands, and Clyde finds himself playing a starring role in mankind's salvation. But, after first enjoying his newfound power and fame, Clyde starts to worry about how far the recluse is willing to go to reboot civilization. With the Wapols busy fighting for control of their bubble, President Poll taking advice from his talking toilet, and the rest of Washington concerned only with optics and clinging to power, Clyde might be mankind's last hope. Can he save us from certain death...or worse?
Download or read book Drugged written by Richard J. Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
