Medicine and Modernity

Medicine and Modernity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 0521524563
ISBN-13 : 9780521524568
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine and Modernity by : Manfred Berg

A collection of essays on fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany.

War, Medicine and Modernity

War, Medicine and Modernity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105073214681
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis War, Medicine and Modernity by : Roger Cooter

This volume presents the first scholarly assessment of the interconnections between war, medicine, society and modernity. Covering the period 1870 to 1945, this work emphasises the effects of warfare on the development of the modern world.

Health and Modernity

Health and Modernity
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 9780387377575
ISBN-13 : 0387377573
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Health and Modernity by : David V. McQueen

Pandemics, substance abuse, natural disasters, obesity, and warfare: these are not only health crises but social crises as well. Now a panel of leaders in global health explores the vital but understudied social theories behind the practice of health promotion, including cultural capital, risk and causality, systems theory, and the dynamic between individual and community.

Modernity, Medicine and Health

Modernity, Medicine and Health
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781134824298
ISBN-13 : 1134824297
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernity, Medicine and Health by : Paul Higgs

An opportunity for medical sociology to establish a voice in the key debates in social science today: modernity, postmodernity, structuralism and poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of the sociology of medicine, health and illness.

Anxious Times

Anxious Times
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9780822986607
ISBN-13 : 0822986604
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Anxious Times by : Amelia Bonea

Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or “diseases of modernity” resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various “neurotic remedies,” in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
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Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 0786707321
ISBN-13 : 9780786707324
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by : James Le Fanu

Argues that the pace of medical discoveries has slowed in the last twenty-five years due to excessive emphasis on the social and political aspects of health care, and to controversies caused by ethical issues.

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781134736027
ISBN-13 : 1134736029
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000 by : Waltraud Ernst

This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.

Medicine and Modernism

Medicine and Modernism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9781317314929
ISBN-13 : 1317314921
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine and Modernism by : L S Jacyna

An in-depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861-1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the relationship between language and the brain broke new ground.

Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine

Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 0415301718
ISBN-13 : 9780415301718
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine by : Suzanne Amador Kane

The medical applications of physics are not typically covered in introductory physics courses. Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine fills that gap by explaining the physical principles behind technologies such as surgical lasers or computed tomography (CT or CAT) scanners. Each chapter includes a short explanation of the scientific background, making this book highly accessible to those without an advanced knowledge of physics. It is intended for medicine and health studies students who need an elementary background in physics, but it also serves well as a non-mathematical introduction to applied physics for undergraduate students in physics, engineering, and other disciplines.

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9781643139005
ISBN-13 : 1643139002
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine by : Thomas Helling

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling’s description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.