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Cover of Public Health in Jamaica, 1850-1940: Neglect, Philantropy and Development
by Margaret Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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.
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Grady Baby

A Year in the Life of Atlantaâ??s Grady Hospital

by Jerry Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999

Cover of Fearless Purpose: A Blind Nurse in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)
by Emily Elizabeth Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Nearly blind from an accident in childhood, deaf from complications of scarlet fever, and perpetually suffering from an ankle injury, Emily Parsons nevertheless enrolled in nursing school at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Already 37, she never married and made the care of others...
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Revolutionary Conceptions

Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820

by Susan E. Klepp
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Susan E. Klepp demonstrates that many women--rural and urban,...
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Hazards of the Job

From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science

by Christopher C. Sellers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. At the crossroads where medicine and...
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Désordonnances

Conseils plus ou moins pratiques pour survivre en santé

by Alain Vadeboncoeur
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2017

Le chocolat noir est-il un aliment miracle ? Les superaliments existent-ils ? Faut-il courir des marathons pour être en forme ? Les saucissons menacent-ils votre existence ? Les vaccins affaiblissent-ils votre système immunitaire ? Le dépistage des cancers allonge-t-il votre vie ? La médecine...
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A Time of Scandal

Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau

by Rosemary Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017

In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes,...
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One for the Road

Drunk Driving since 1900

by Barron H. Lerner
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011

Don’t drink and drive. It's a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have been around as long as automobiles, every movement to keep drunks from driving has hit some alarming bumps in the road. Barron H. Lerner narrates...
Cover of Pharmacy Wars
by Andrea Lynne Berman
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009

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Cover of The Great Epidemics
by A Guernsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013

This description of plague-smitten eras includes ancient Greece, London and Marseille in the Middle Ages and the later scourges of Yellow Fever and Asiatic Cholera. This series originally appeared in four parts during the mid nineteenth century.
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Medizin und Sprache die Sprache der Medizin

Medycyna i jzyk jzyk medycyny

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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015

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...
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The Experiential Caribbean

Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic

by Pablo F. Gómez
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth...
Cover of The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
by Barbara Seaman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on forty years of journalistic research to expose the "menopause industry" and shows how estrogen therapy often causes more problems—including breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke—than it cures. The Greatest Experiment Ever...
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Making the Monster

The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

by Kathryn Harkup
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science-fiction genres, and her creation has become part of our everyday culture, from cartoons to Hallowe'en...
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