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by Claude Bernard, Stewart Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The French physiologist Claude Bernard was responisble for investigating the chemical phenomena of digestion. This text reproduces his research into experimental medicine. A new introduction looks at his impact on the world of medicine.
Sur Deux Mémoires de d'Alembert
L'un concernant le Calcul des Probabilités, l'autre l'Inoculation
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
BnF collection ebooks - "M. d'Alembert vient de publier ses Opuscules mathématiques. Il y a dans ce recueil deux mémoires qu'il n'est pas impossible de réduire à la langue ordinaire de la raison. L'un a pour objet le calcul des probabilités ; calcul dont l'application a tant d'importance...
Damnation Island
Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became,...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
The American Disease
Origins of Narcotic Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1999
The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relationz between public outcry and the creation...
Anesthesia
The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
"An obsessive, mystical, terrifying, and even phantasmagorical exploration of anesthesia’s shadowy terra incognita." —The New Yorker
Anesthetize: to render insensible
First there’s the injection, then the countdown—and next thing you know, you’re awake. Anesthesia:...
Margaret and Charley
The Personal Story of Dr. Charles Best, the Co-Discoverer of Insulin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant...
Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on...
The Myth of the Born Criminal
Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate...
The Door of Last Resort
Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer, Frances Ward is especially well equipped to analyze the American health care system. In this memoir, she explores the practice of nurse practitioners through her experiences...
Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving
Time to Feel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers. Drawing on rich, in-depth interview data and employing interactionist theories, Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving explores carers' lived experiences, paying close attention...
Bellevue Diary
Lights Within the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
From its founding 1736, Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor, elderly, and dying. What makes the oldest hospital in the United States unique is that Bellevue is a place from which no one in need is turned away.
Bellevue Diary is a collection of short...
Touched By Fire
Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
When the rapes and massacres, the plagues, the famines, the floods, or the droughts erupt in far-off places, the world stands still. MSF does not.
They are the “smoke jumpers” among international aid organizations. While others are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the...
Hurt
The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Trauma is a disease of epidemic proportions that preys on the young, killing more Americans up to age thirty-seven than all other afflictions combined. Every year an estimated 2.8 million people are hospitalized for injuries and more than 180,000 people die. We take for granted that no matter how...