Medical History category: 1391 books
Riotous Flesh
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women’s leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform...
Long Night’s Journey into Day
Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity.
Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at...
by Richard Rudgley
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to...
Disease and Sanitation in Victorian Britian
Lessons for the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book highlights the huge advances made in prevention of infectious disease(s) in Victorian Britain. The actual cause of most disease was then unknown, as it was throughout most of the nineteenth century, but it was awareness of their association with poverty, overcrowding, poor ventilation and...
Cancer Virus
The story of Epstein-Barr Virus
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein...
by Rosemary Wall
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.
by Christopher Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception documents a powerful connection between big corporations, the U.S. military, and the historic reassurances of fluoride safety provided by the nation’s...
by Steve Baldwin, Philip J. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Why write another book on ethics? As practitioners we are involved both in the design and delivery of services to people with mental health problems. In common with all other professionals, our work has led to the experience of ethical dilemmas: typically, these have involved major confrontations,...
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats
Unfinished business
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality.
Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party’s recovery, but his life tells us about much more...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects roughly 15 percent of all combat veterans. In a combat situation, when a warrior experiences a moral dilemma that violates a deeply held conviction,...
by Perky Beisel, Rob DeHart
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Breeding fine horses has been both big business and pastime for Middle Tennesseans since settlers first entered the Cumberland Valley during the American Revolution. The fertile pastures and mild climate of the area lent itself to horse breeding, and the populace embraced the benefits. Horses functioned...
No More Heroes
Madness and Psychiatry In War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
No More Heroes is an in depth exploration of madness and psychiatry in war.
Dangerous Pregnancies
Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two...
HIV Exceptionalism
Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign...