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  • Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin

    Medycyna i język – język medycyny

    Edited by Eva Brinkschulte, Fritz Dross, Anita Magowska, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Teichfischer ...
    Series Book 20 - Medizingeschichte im Kontext
    Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin lautete das Thema der 14. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin. Der Tagungsband umfasst 17 Beiträge, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Verhältnis von Sprache und Medizin thematisieren. Die Autoren diskutieren die medizinische Fachsprache als internes und externes Kommunikationsmittel hinsichtlich ihres ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust

    A new history in the words of the men and women who survived

    by Lyn Smith ...
    Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.The great majority of Holocaust survivors suffered considerable physical and psychological wounds, yet even in this dark time of human history, tales of faith, love and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology

    Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Campbell ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Forensic psychology has developed and extended from an original, narrow focus on presenting evidence to the courts to a wider application across the whole span of civil and criminal justice, which includes dealing with suspects, offenders, victims, witnesses, defendants, litigants and justice professionals. This Handbook provides an encyclopedic-style source regarding the major concerns in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • In Our Control

    The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

    by Laura Eldridge ...
    The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors. In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women's health activist Laura Eldridge discusses the history, scientific advances, and practical uses of everything from condoms to the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Gender and the Historian

    by Johanna Alberti ...
    Series series Making History
    Why are most famous historians men? How have women changed the writing of history over the last decades? What lives and stories have been hidden from history?Until recently history was predominantly the domain of men. That men were the authors of our past meant that in many cases only half of the story was told. In the second half of the twentieth century, however, the picture changed. Women, and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Merciful End

    The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America

    by Ian Dowbiggin ...
    While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives ... Read more

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  • Medicine and Religion

    A Historical Introduction

    by Gary B. Ferngren ...
    Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies.Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

    by Roger Cooter, Claudia Stein ...
    A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography. In particular, he examines the “double bind” of postmodernism and biological or neurological modeling that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Teaching History at University

    Enhancing Learning and Understanding

    by Alan Booth ...
    Alan Booth draws on a wide range of international research as well as the reflections and experiences of university historians, linking theory and practice. Teaching History at University examines how high-quality history teaching and learning can be achieved in today's universities worldwide. This is an essential resource for university teachers and all those who are responsible for ensuring the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Medical Challenges for the New Millennium

    An Interdisciplinary Task

    Edited by Stefan N. Willich, S. Elm ...
    In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "due date" for world health. The Alma Ata declaration set the turn of the century as the target for a level of health that would permit all people of the world to lead a socially and economically productive life. ' At that (magic but arbitrary) date most infectious diseases and many chronic conditions, including diabetes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine

    The United States, France, and Japan

    by Marc A. Rodwin ...
    As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions about physicians' loyalty to their patients and their professional and economic independence. The ... Read more

    $27.99 USD