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A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio
ISBN: 9780821415948 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doctors Of Osteopathy Today Practice Side By Side with medical doctors, employing the same diagnostic and curative tools of scientific medicine - with a difference. A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio is the story of that difference. Focusing on the historical experience of a pivotal midwestern state, historian Carol Poh Miller illuminates struggles common to osteopathic medicine nationwide as it fought to secure its place in American health care. First promulgated by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in 1874, osteopathy was a reaction against the primitive medical practices of...
Doctors Of Osteopathy Today Practice Side By Side with medical doctors, employing the same diagnostic and curative tools of scientific medicine - with...
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From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940
ISBN: 9780822330127 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the development of the medical profession and the health system in Costa Rica, integrating an analysis of class, gender, professional hierarchy, and a comparative perspective on the health care systems of other nations.
A study of the development of the medical profession and the health system in Costa Rica, integrating an analysis of class, gender, professional hiera...
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476,07 |
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From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940
ISBN: 9780822330479 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism" presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era--when none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had access to a titled physician, pharmacist, or midwife--to the 1940s, when the figure of the qualified medical doctor was part of everyday life for many of Costa Rica's nearly one million citizens. It is the first book to chronicle the history of all healers, both professional and popular, in a Latin American country during the national period.
Steven Palmer breaks with the view of popular and professional medicine... "From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism" presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era--when none of the fifty ...
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155,45 |
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Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS
ISBN: 9780822330578 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illness was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Based on the idea that the meanings... Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a s...
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476,07 |
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Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS
ISBN: 9780822330691 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illness was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Based on the idea that the meanings... Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a s...
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135,98 |
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Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907
ISBN: 9780822334231 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act set an important precedent for state regulation of bodies. From its inception in 1853 until its demise in 1907, the compulsory smallpox vaccine was fiercely resisted, largely by members of the working class who interpreted it as an infringement of their rights as citizens and a violation of...
Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to...
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135,98 |
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Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
ISBN: 9780822338086 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beware Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy. So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France s main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with climatic cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and the twentieth. Water cures and high-altitude resorts were widely believed to serve vital therapeutic and even prophylactic functions against tropical disease and the tropics themselves. The Ministry of the Colonies published bulletins accrediting a host of spas thought to be effective against tropical ailments ranging from...
Beware Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy. So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France s main spas. Throughout the...
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456,63 |
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Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
ISBN: 9780822338222 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beware Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy. So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France s main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with climatic cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and the twentieth. Water cures and high-altitude resorts were widely believed to serve vital therapeutic and even prophylactic functions against tropical disease and the tropics themselves. The Ministry of the Colonies published bulletins accrediting a host of spas thought to be effective against tropical ailments ranging from...
Beware Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy. So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France s main spas. Throughout the...
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135,98 |
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Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
ISBN: 9780822341284 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated through the media and were amplified in popular fiction and film. The outbreak narrative begins with the identification of an emerging infection, follows it through the global networks of contact and...
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergenc...
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505,22 |
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Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
ISBN: 9780822341536 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated through the media and were amplified in popular fiction and film. The outbreak narrative begins with the identification of an emerging infection, follows it through the global networks of contact and...
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergenc...
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155,45 |
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Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine
ISBN: 9780823213795 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living...
The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but d...
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135,98 |
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Anatomia, 1838 (Hawaiian Text with English Translation)
ISBN: 9780824825850 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P. Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrote the text in 1838 to teach basic anatomy to Hawaiians enrolled at the Mission Seminary (Lahainaluna School). Working from a standard elementary textbook of the time, Judd provided his students with more than a simple, straight translation. Rather than Hawaiianize Latin or English names and terms, he devised new vocabulary and explained medical functions and practices in words that would be readily understood by a Hawaiian. Judd's use of... Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P. Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrot... |
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116,54 |
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Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-1941
ISBN: 9780824828080 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions--sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex--resulted from the U.S. Navy's introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam's native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of... A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions--sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex--resulted from the U.S. Navy's intro... |
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189,45 |
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The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes
ISBN: 9780842028271 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked both enormous hostility and widespread adulation. A combination of narrative and analysis, the book documents Perdomo's experiences in Colombia and Ecuador and offers valuable insights into the social history of medicine during the Great Transformation in nineteenth-century Latin America. Reactions to Perdomo also illuminate the conflicts between colonial and modern and between religious and secular belief systems in Latin America...
This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 187...
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194,31 |
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Chinese Medicine Modern Chinese Medicine, Volume 2: A Comprehensive Review of Medicine in the People's Republic of China
ISBN: 9780852007891 / Angielski / Twarda / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1207,67 |
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Making Medicines: A History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
ISBN: 9780853695974 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Medicines is a concise, chronological discussion of the history of therapeutics and pharmacy from the Egyptians through to the present day. It focuses on the discovery and uses of medicines to treat illness through the ages, and the evolving role of the pharmacist. Each chapter is contributed by an expert in the period or field, and illustrates how wider social, political and economic developments have influenced drug development and shaped pharmacy practice. The book has two color-plate sections illustrating how pharmacy has developed over the centuries. Numerous photographs are also...
Making Medicines is a concise, chronological discussion of the history of therapeutics and pharmacy from the Egyptians through to the present day. It ...
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121,40 |
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Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911
ISBN: 9780873385770 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs and promoted the belief that the human body has an inherent "vital force" that can be used to heal. In Kindly Medicine, John Haller offers the first complete history of this high-brow branch of botanical medicine. Physio-Medicalist, along with Thomsonians, Homeopathys, Hydropaths, and Eclectics, represented the earliest wave of... Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philos... |
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A Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1835-1942
ISBN: 9780873386104 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Eclectic Medical Institute was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. For nearly a century, EMI was known as the "mecca of eclectic thinking" and the "Mother Institute" of reformed medicine. A Profile of Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine which, along with hydropathy, homeopathy, physiomedicalism, chiropractic, and osteopathy, competed with regular medicine (allopathy) in the nineteenth century. This history of EMI is set within the broader context of American medicine and recounts the internal feuds, successes, adversity,... The Eclectic Medical Institute was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. For nearly a century, EMI was known as the "mecca of e... |
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140,83 |
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Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West: Essays on Region, History, and Practice
ISBN: 9780874173048 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors examine the nature of industrial illnesses, including silicosis in the Mountain West's hardrock mining industry, and the management of Native American health. The editors offer an overview of the circumstances that created the region's medical history and suggest topics for study.
Contributors examine the nature of industrial illnesses, including silicosis in the Mountain West's hardrock mining industry, and the management of Na...
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165,17 |
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Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution
ISBN: 9780879698096 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the highly acclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged in the 1970s, as well as the scientific advances that eventually changed the public perception of "test tube babies." Published in paperback for the first time, this timely and provocative book brilliantly presents the scientific and ethical dilemmas in the ongoing debate over what it means to be human in a technological age.
This is the highly acclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged ...
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