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  • Contagious Communities

    Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post War Britain

    de Roberta Bivins ...
    It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5 July, the Appointed Day when the nation's new National Health Service would first open its doors. The relationship between immigration and the NHS ... Leer más

    $51.29 USD

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  • Charlatan

    America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

    de Pope Brock ...
    The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA TodayIn 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest ... Leer más

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  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    A Medical History of Humanity

    de Roy Porter ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Danger Within Us

    America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

    de Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Healing Histories

    Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

    de Laurie Meijer Drees ...
    A social history of tubercular hospitals and Canada's indigenous population, built around "poignant and at times heartbreaking" firsthand accounts ( Choice).Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system, Healing Histories presents a fresh perspective on health care history that includes the diverse voices and insights of the many ... Leer más

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  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    de Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Clara Barton, Professional Angel

    de Elizabeth Brown Pryor ...
    Series series Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
    Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.Based on the papers Clara Barton carefully saved over her lifetime, this biography is the first one to draw ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • A Colonial Lexicon

    Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

    de Nancy Rose Hunt, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • How Cancer Crossed the Color Line

    de Keith Wailoo ...
    In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

    Europe, America, and the Third World

    de Robert William Fogel ...
    Series Libro 38 - Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
    Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Paradox of Hope

    Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

    de Cheryl Mattingly ...
    Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Caring for the Heart

    Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization

    de W Bruce Fye ...
    This groundbreaking book weaves together three important themes. It describes major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in the twentieth century, explains how the Mayo Clinic evolved from a family practice in Minnesota into one of the world's leading medical centers, and reveals how the invention of new technologies and procedures promoted specialization among physicians ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD