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  • The Religion of Chiropractic

    Populist Healing from the American Heartland

    by Holly Folk ...
    Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic’s colorful founders, D. D. Palmer and his son, B. J. Palmer, of Davenport, Iowa, where in 1897 they established the Palmer College of Chiropractic. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Jonas Salk

    A Life

    by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs ...
    When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon--a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with ... Read more

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  • A Colonial Lexicon

    Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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

    Europe, America, and the Third World

    by Robert William Fogel ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • On the Sacred Disease (Illustrated Edition)

    by Hippocrates ...
    Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as ... Read more

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  • You're the First One I've Told

    The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

    by Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein, Brian Wells Pence ...
    The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease’s continued spread in the region—ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes—remain unaddressed by policymakers.In this extensively revised second edition, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

    Edited by Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology). Jaspers was working at a time much like our own - with rapid expansion in the neurosciences, and responding to the philosophical challenges that this raised. The idea inspiring his ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Enduring Legacy

    The M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center

    by William Henry Kellar ...
    At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical schools, four schools of nursing, and schools of dentistry, public health, and pharmacology occupy the thousand-acre campus.But none of ... Read more

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  • The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry

    A History of Misery and Medicine

    by John Paul Webster ...
    This account of the infamous asylum is "an excellent record of greed and corruption, but it is also a powerful testimonial to compassion and kindness" ( Hidden City).The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the ... Read more

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  • The Afterlife of Images

    Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

    by Ari Larissa Heinrich, Arjun Appadurai, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

    by J. Toms ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment

    by Hisao Ishizuka ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine. It explores the pivotal role fiber played as a defining, underlying concept in anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, psychology, and the life sciences. With the gradual demise of ancient humoralism, the solid fibers appeared on the medical scene both as the basic building unit ... Read more

    $62.99 USD