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The Body's Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments

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The Body's Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments

The Body's Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments by Paul L. Kimmel
English | February 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798887701714 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 2.59 MB

A remarkable account of the kidney and the scientific, medical, and health evolution tied to our understanding of it.

Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960

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Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960

Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960 by Mauro Capocci, Daniele Cozzoli
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 229 Pages | ISBN : 3031388046 | 5.6 MB

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imperialism outside of the British Empire, drawing on case studies from other colonial experiences in Africa, Asia, and South America in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Each of these systems adopted different approaches to colonial health and medicine. By studying their diversity, it is possible to obtain a more comprehensive picture of what we now call ‘tropical medicine.’ The authors emphasise that the British model cannot be adapted to all colonial experiences, drawing on relevant cases from both interoceanic and continental empires. The collection comprises three sections. The first examines the role of tropical medicine in the evolution and collapse of empire in countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands. The second part analyses the links between tropical medical institutions and imperial commercial and political expansion in Britain and Brazil. Finally, the authors tackle the crucial interrelated circulation of people, objects, and ideas amongst countries including Brazil, China, Italy, and Spain. Using a medical lens to analyse the inter-connected processes of nation-building and colonial expansion in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this book provides valuable reading for scholars of imperialism and medical history alike.

The End of the Golden age of General Surgery. 1870-2000.

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The End of the Golden age of General Surgery. 1870-2000.

The End of the Golden age of General Surgery. 1870-2000. by Nigel Keith Maybury
English | ISBN: 1499531370 | 214 pages | PDF | 2014 | 6 Mb

The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics

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The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics

The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics by Donald G. McNeil
English | January 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 166800139X | 384 pages | True EPUB | 3.11 MB

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one.

The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books)

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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books)

The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books) by Shigehisa Kuriyama
English | ISBN: 0942299892 | 344 pages | PDF | 2002 | 54 Mb

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought:
(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

English | 2024 | ISBN: 100924132X | 466 Pages | PDF | 4 MB

The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David

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The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David

The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David by Marcel Herbst
English | PDF (True) | 2014 | 226 Pages | ISBN : 9400774060 | 2.5 MB

The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume. The book focuses on three major lines of Ben-David’s research, namely “Center and Periphery” (Part I), “Role and Ethos” (Part II), and “Organization and Growth” (Part III). In addition, comprehensive introductory (“Prologue”) and concluding chapters (“Epilogue”, Part IV) by Marcel Herbst are provided. The volume addresses the following disciplines: higher education, history and sociology of science, philosophy of science, history of medicine, public administration, policy studies, Jewish studies, and economics.

The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences: South/African Perspectives

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The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences: South/African Perspectives

The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences: South/African Perspectives by Jonathan Jansen, Jess Auerbach
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 269 Pages | ISBN : 3031319125 | 9.5 MB

In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields–-including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the vaccine sciences–-the book demonstrates the troubled histories and the enduring effects of imperial knowledge decades since the end of colonial rule and apartheid. This is a valuable text on the politics of the biomedical sciences written from the perspective of the African continent, and at the same time it revisits knowledge/power relationships between the majority (“global South”) and minority (“global north”) words in a historical perspective and in their contemporary expression in the disciplines. The immediate benefit is a reference resource for medical science researchers, and a teaching text for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book is further composed as an accessible, readable and interesting text on politics and medicine in Africa for the discerning lay reader.

Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine

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Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine

Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine by Luke Messac
English | October 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 0197676634 | 200 pages | True EPUB | 2.08 MB

A riveting exposa of medical debt collection in America DL and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

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Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America by Kathleen M. Crowther
English | October 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1421447630 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 9.18 MB

Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality.

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

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Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 0306828804 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 11.79 MB

Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases.

My Age of Anxiety

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My Age of Anxiety

My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
English | January 16th, 2014 | ISBN: 0099592061 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 0.71 MB

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2015

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

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Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep by Kenneth Miller
English | October 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 0306924951 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 19.85 MB

The definitive story of the scientists who set out to answer two questions: “Why do we sleep?” and "How can we sleep better?”

Medicine in an Age of Revolution

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Medicine in an Age of Revolution

Medicine in an Age of Revolution by Peter Elmer
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 019885398X | True EPUB/PDF | 480 pages | 2.6/3.1 MB

Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870: A City's Response to Crisis

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Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870: A City's Response to Crisis

Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870: A City's Response to Crisis by Marina Formica , Donatella Strangio
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 331 Pages | ISBN : 3031412591 | 5.6 MB

This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The authors explore papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book combines cultural, political, and economic history to examine key turning points in the city’s history. The book is split into chapters exploring themes such as diplomacy and international relations, disease, environmental disasters, famine, public debt, and unravels the political, economic, and social consequences of these transformative events. All the chapters are based on untapped original sources, chiefly from the State Archive in Rome, the Vatican Archives, the Rome Municipal Archives, the École Française Library, the National Library, and the Capitoline Library.