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Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle
ISBN: 9781409400387 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. Fittingly, the volume honors Professor John M. Riddle, one of today's most respected medieval historians, whose career has been devoted to decoding the complexities of early medicine and pharmacy. "Herbs" in the title generally connotes drugs in ancient and medieval times; the essays here discuss interesting aspects of the challenges scholars face as they translate and interpret texts in several older languages. Some of the...
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval m...
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"Vernichten und Heilen - Ein Forschungsbericht zur Militärmedizin des Zweiten Weltkriegs
ISBN: 9783656166702 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Medizin - Geschichte, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky Universit t Oldenburg (Institut f r Geschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Da die Milit rmedizin des Zweiten Weltkriegs einen elementaren Pfeiler der nationalsozialistischen Medizin ausmacht und kontinuierlich neue Desiderate entdeckt werden, will der vorliegende Forschungsbericht den Versuch wagen, einen groben berblick ber die extensive und bisweilen auch hochdifferenzierte Forschungsliteratur zur Milit rmedizin des Zweiten Weltkriegs anzubieten. Dies soll nicht nur...
Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Medizin - Geschichte, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky Universit t Oldenburg (Insti...
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Shen, Psychotherapy, and Acupuncture: Theory, Methodology and Structure of Chinese Medicine
ISBN: 9783631607626 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychotherapy and Chinese Medicine both leave the European Mindset serves as the guiding idea for this volume. It presents papers by leading experts in Chinese Medicine of different countries. They clarify Shen and its related concepts, elucidate the psychotherapy of Chinese Medicine, discuss Chinese medical treatments for mental diseases, argue the rationality of acupuncture, interpret Chinese Medicine, and discuss how to modernize Chinese Medicine in the right way. The range of research presented in this volume includes interdisciplinary perspectives of the philosophy of science, the...
Psychotherapy and Chinese Medicine both leave the European Mindset serves as the guiding idea for this volume. It presents papers by leading ex...
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Medical Visions: Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies
ISBN: 9780199737246 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how has medicine's visual culture changed in the digital age? Kirsten Ostherr's ambitious study explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how visual representations shape medical education and practice. Marshaling powerful, vivid examples she demonstrates how medical images created by the healthcare industry, documentary filmmakers, experimental artists, and the mass media acquire cultural meaning and influence doctors' and patients'...
How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how h...
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How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
ISBN: 9780199948086 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a term for what they have," writes Edward Shorter, "and it's a good old-fashioned term that has gone out of use. They have nerves." In How Everyone Became Depressed, Edward Shorter, a distinguished professor of psychiatry and the history of medicine argues for a return to the old fashioned...
About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients hav...
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Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
ISBN: 9780857110992 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 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.
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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Ulfáz Udwiyeh, or the Materia Medica: In the Arabic, Persian, and Hindevy Languages
ISBN: 9781108056090 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This materia medica a book of collected knowledge about medicines and their properties was originally written in Persian by Noureddeen Mohammed Abdullah al-Shirazi (fl.1625 40), physician to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, to whom it was dedicated. This 1793 publication contains entries in Persian, Arabic and Hindi, with English translations by Francis Gladwin (1744 1812), an employee of the East India Company and professor of Persian at Fort William College. The work begins by giving traditional Arabic evaluations of each type of medicine in terms of its power on a scale of 1 to 4, before...
This materia medica a book of collected knowledge about medicines and their properties was originally written in Persian by Noureddeen Mohammed Abdull...
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The Stealth Virus
ISBN: 9781477566794 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Griffiths, Professor of Virology at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and has spent his professional life in medical virology. He has an international reputation, unrivalled expertise and insight into the effect that viruses can have on patients and their families. Professor Griffiths uses this experience and stories of real patients to demonstrate how cytomegalovirus has avoided detection and treatment for so long. He introduces you to CMV, an intelligent virus which evolved millions of years ago intending to...
Paul Griffiths, Professor of Virology at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London...
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50,02 |
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Public Health in Jamaica, 1850-1940: Neglect, Philanthropy and Development
ISBN: 9789766403133 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and reports, this study provides the most comprehensive account to date of public health in Jamaica in the post-emancipation colonial period to the onset of the Second World War.
Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and reports, this stud...
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Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes
ISBN: 9789766403164 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes was first published in 1759 in London. Remarkably, a third edition was published in Philadelphia in 1812, with praise and annotations by the most famous American physician, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and with good reason. It is certainly the first comprehensive documentation of an epidemiological nature, in English, in the Caribbean, and justifies the title 'first Caribbean epidemiologist' for Dr Hillary. He made rigourous observations and clear deductions that have stood the test of time...
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes was first published in 1759 in London. Remar...
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Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses: A British Social History of Fever Nurses: A National Service
ISBN: 9780415647762 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and looks at the lives of key figures at that time. The text examines how this once important branch of the nursing profession emerged in the nineteenth century, only to be discarded in the second half of the following century. Drawing on the work of Goffman and Foucault, the study shows how, aided by medical advances, fever nurses transformed their...
This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth ce...
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Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice
ISBN: 9780754669586 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in particular the prevention and treatment of plague. The lazaretti served as isolation hospitals, quarantine centres, convalescent homes, cemeteries, and depots for the disinfection or destruction of infected goods. The first permanent example of this institution was established in Venice in 1423 and between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries tens of thousands of patients passed through the doors. Founded on lagoon islands, the lazaretti tell us...
Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in par...
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Chronobiologie; Zeitordnung von Lebensvorgängen
ISBN: 9783034305594 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leben ist ohne den Begriff der Zeit undenkbar; taglich erfahren wir sie durch den Wechsel von Licht und Dunkelheit oder von Aktivitat und Ruhe. Die Buchbeitrage befassen sich in einer interdisziplinaren Annaherung mit der Zeitordnung, der das Leben unterworfen ist, namlich der Chronobiologie.
Der Band bietet Einblicke in die Auseinandersetzung mit der Chronobiologie aus Sicht der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin, der Philosophie, der Anthroposophischen Medizin, der Homoopathie, der Lichttherapie und weiteren Forschungsgebieten. Die Beitrage stammen aus der im Herbstsemester 2009 an... Leben ist ohne den Begriff der Zeit undenkbar; taglich erfahren wir sie durch den Wechsel von Licht und Dunkelheit oder von Aktivitat und Ruhe. Die Bu...
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Ragnar Berg: Leben Und Werk Des Schwedischen Ernaehrungsforschers Und Begruenders Der Basischen Kost
ISBN: 9783631505076 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seit den 1990er Jahren wird uber die gesundheitsfordernde Wirkung der basischen Ernahrung viel geschrieben und geforscht. Weitgehend unbekannt ist jedoch, dass sie schon um 1912 von Ragnar Berg (1873-1956) wissenschaftlich begrundet wurde. Auf der Basis eines umfangreichen Quellen- und Literaturstudiums sowie der Befragung von Zeitzeugen arbeitet der Autor Berg als -geistigen Vater- der basischen Kost heraus. Daruber hinaus eroffnet die Arbeit Ausblicke in die Ernahrungsforschung seit ca. 1800, in Mineralstoff- und Vitaminforschung, in die Ernahrungsreformbewegung der 1920er und die -Neue...
Seit den 1990er Jahren wird uber die gesundheitsfordernde Wirkung der basischen Ernahrung viel geschrieben und geforscht. Weitgehend unbekannt ist jed...
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Vom 'Roman Expérimental' Zum 'Roman Psychologique': Medizin Und Psychologie in Romanen Des Ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts Von Emile Zola Bis Zu Paul Bou
ISBN: 9783631514245 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Studie untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der Entwicklung der Medizin und Psychologie die einzelnen Etappen des naturalistischen und psychologischen Romans. Anhand der Analyse ausgewahlter Werke von Zola, Barbey d Aurevilly, Huysmans, Maupassant und Bourget weist die Autorin nach, dass die Vorstellung von einem abrupten Bruch mit dem Naturalismus aufgegeben werden muss. Die starke Prasenz sowohl medizinischer als auch psychologischer Themen in allen Texten spricht sowohl fur eine starke Verquickung beider Romantypen als auch fur eine allmahliche Aufgabe des Szientismus, wobei Zola die...
Die Studie untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der Entwicklung der Medizin und Psychologie die einzelnen Etappen des naturalistischen und psychologischen R...
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Johannes de Mirfeld of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield: His Life and Works
ISBN: 9781107686052 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1936, this book deals with the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with any English hospital and their mysterious author, Johannes de Mirfeld. Hartley and Aldridge provide the original Latin text of all of Mirfeld's works, along with an English translation on each facing page. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medical history.
Originally published in 1936, this book deals with the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with any English hospital and their m...
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Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America: The Development of Social Insurance
ISBN: 9781848931893 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state organizations in the development of welfare services. This study is particularly focused on the role of friendly societies and other insurance bodies in the provision of aid for the elderly and the sick.
Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state organizations in the development of welfare servic...
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730,17 |
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
ISBN: 9780143123576 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most...
The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims onc...
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Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780813561615 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Brilliantly white, straight teeth? Making the American Mouth is at once a history of United States dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and the ways dentists worked to expand that access--and improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, this work describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, mid-century social movements...
Why are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Brilliantly white, straight teeth? Making the American Mouth is at once a history of Uni...
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Psychologia lekarska w leczeniu chorych somatyczni
ISBN: 9788323324058 / Polski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Podręcznik stanowi bardzo potrzebne i długo oczekiwane opracowanie, które w sposób rzetelny i wyczerpujący omawia najważniejsze problemy psychologiczne, z jakimi spotykają się lekarze różnych specjalności. Jest adresowane przede wszystkim do studentów wydziałów lekarskich. Jednak zainteresowani nim mogą być również studenci kierunku pielęgniarstwa, fizjoterapii, a częściowo także ratownictwa medycznego, nie wspominając o praktykujących lekarzach różnych specjalności.
Podręcznik stanowi bardzo potrzebne i długo oczekiwane opracowanie, które w sposób rzetelny i wyczerpujący omawia najważniejsze problemy psychol...
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