Mother and Fetus

Blank, Robert H Blank

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• No single area of medicine promises more acrimonious and intense debate in the coming decades than the implications of new medical technologies on the... Lees meer

Dis-Ease in the Colonial State

Osaak A Olumwullah

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 47
• Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya and analyzes the introduction and use of ... Lees meer

Photographing Medicine

Daniel M Fox, Christopher Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• The book contains more than 250 photographs which are representative of the thousands that were studied. Each photograph is evaluated and interpreted ... Lees meer

Understanding the Liver

Tnomas Chan, Peter Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• The authors explore the history of man's thoughts about hepatic structure, function, and disorders, both chronologically and thematically. The first t... Lees meer

Action on AIDS

Barbara Misztal, David Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• This edited collection shows how the spread of HIV infection has been followed, represented, and managed in nine countries between 1982 and 1988. The ... Lees meer

Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep

E M Papper

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 42
• Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of Tho... Lees meer

Essays of Robert Koch

K Codell Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• This collection of translations of some of Koch's important essays represents an important first. It includes three of his essays on anthrax, three on... Lees meer

Doctors Only

Richard Malmsheimer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• Some of the problems facing the American medical profession today stem from an underlying cultural phenomenon--the evolution of the image of the docto... Lees meer

James Cook and the Conquest of Scurvy

Francis E Cuppage

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 40
• The conquest of scurvy by James Cook during his three famous circumnavigations of 1768-1780 was a product of Cook's character, of his leadership, and ... Lees meer

Medicine and Money

Frank H Marsh, Mark Yarborough

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• Medicine and Money: A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment is a frank discussion of the moral problems associated with the... Lees meer

Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Milton Lewis, Maryinez Lyons, Philip Setel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 44
• In a series of case studies of sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS from around Africa, contributors examine the social, cultural, and political-... Lees meer

The Measurement of Health

James S Larson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• How can the various indicators of health, available through vital statistics, government publications, private surveys and other sources, be measured?... Lees meer

Cancer Factories

Howard Ball

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• For the first time, the sad story of America's uranium miners and the duplicity of our government is revealed. This expert study examines, in microcos... Lees meer

The History of Modern Epilepsy

Walter Friedlander

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• Although the history of epilepsy, one of the most common serious neurological disorders, can easily be traced back to ancient times, the modern unders... Lees meer

Disease in the Popular American Press

Terra Ziporyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US mass media covered typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis from 1870 to 1920. Ziporyn, a free-lan... Lees meer

A Community Approach to AIDS Intervention

Dale D Chitwood, James a Inciardi, Duane C McBride

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• Written by researchers at a federally funded outreach program to combat the spread of AIDS, this book analyzes the efforts of the Miami Community Outr... Lees meer

The Tuberculosis Movement

Michael E Teller

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• The Tuberculosis Movement presents a detailed description of the evolution of the American tuberculosis movement from its inception in the late 19th c... Lees meer

Families and the Gravely Ill

Richard Sherlock, C Mary Dingus

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• This volume joins other recently published works on the ethical and legal considerations of life-sustaining treatments. Sherlock and Dingus focus on m... Lees meer

Fertility Control

Robert H Blank

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 32
• An exploration of the policy dilemmas with new fertility control techniques, this volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of the subject's tec... Lees meer

Beyond Flexner

Barbara Barzansky, Norman Gevitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• For decades, educators, historians, and social commentators accorded major responsibility for the reform of medical education in the United States to ... Lees meer

Drama and Discovery

Thomas M Daniel, Gerald L Baum

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 48
• Histoplasmosis is a fungal disease that is widely endemic in much of the world. In the central United States, including the broad reaches of the Ohio ... Lees meer

The Legend of Nietzsche's Syphilis

Richard Schain, Schain

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• In this unique exploration of Nietzsche's life and behavior, Dr. Richard Schain challenges the widely held view that this important philosopher's acti... Lees meer

Sex, Disease, and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies | nr. 43
• This work identifies significant factors influencing, on the one hand, the historical pattern of sexually acquired diseases in 12 countries in Asia an... Lees meer

Biomedical Technology and Public Policy

Robert H Blank, Miriam K Mills

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Medical Studies
• This volume is designed to provide a framework for studying the public policy implications of a broad range of biomedical technologies. Each chapter f... Lees meer