Author: Crotty, Shane Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore ha...
Author: Smith, Prof. Matthew Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Alternative History of Hyperactivity explores the origins of the Feingold diet, revealing why it became so popular, and the ways in which physicians, parents, and the public made decisions ab...
Author: N/A Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: All subjects have their canon of literature that should be studied before serious students can advance in their chosen fields. Containing papers carefully compiled not merely for their historical impo...
Author: Andrews, Jonathan / Scull, Andrew Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept...
Author: Burt, Robert A. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right ...
Author: Alcabes, Philip Publisher: Public Affair Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease...yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of ...
Author: Stern, Alexandra Minna Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United State...
Author: Proctor, Robert N. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemi...
Author: Schwartz, Maxine Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fear of mad cow disease, a lethal illness transmitted from infected beef to humans, has spread from Europe to the United States and around the world. Originally published to much acclaim in France, th...
Author: Jacyna, L. S. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the mid-nineteenth century, physicians observed numerous cases in which individuals lost the ability to form spoken words, even as they remained sane and healthy in most other ways. By studying thi...
Author: Sherman, Irwin W. Publisher: ASM Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After more than four decades of working on the frontlines in the war against malaria, author Irwin Sherman is uniquely qualified to present this chronicle of the search for medicines to conquer malari...
Author: Hermsen, Prof. Lisa Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Spanning several centuries, Manic Minds traces the multiple ways in which the word “mania” has been used by popular, medical, and academic writers. It reveals why the rhetorical history of...
Author: Dupont, Michael Joe Publisher: New Mexico Medical Society Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Rich with anecdotal detail, this work uses the careers of physician-leaders as a prism to present the evolution of state medicine from World War II into the new millennium.
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasin...
Author: Swiderski, Richard Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating...
Author: Ernst, Waltraud / Harris, Bernard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 brings together current critical research into the role played by racial ideas in the production of medical knowledge, throwing new light on three centuries of ra...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China betwee...
Author: Nelson, Sioban Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nearly half a century before Florence Nightingale became a legendary figure for her pioneering work in the nursing trade, nursing nuns made significant but little-known accomplishments in the field....
Author: Blumenthal, David / Morone, James Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Even the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watc...
Author: Pepin, Jacques Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jac...
Author: Stern, Alexandra Minna Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United State...
Author: Unschuld, Paul U. / Tessenow, Hermann Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as Su Wen, or The Ye...
Author: Getz, Faye Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far ...
Author: Tobbell, Dominique A. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with ...
Author: Prescott, Prof. Heather Munro Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Morning After tells the story of emergency contraception in America from the 1960s to the present day and, more importantly, it tells the story of the women who have used it. Side-stepping simplis...
