Healing A Nation

Author : Jeffrey S. Reznick
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719069741
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Nation written by Jeffrey S. Reznick and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing the Nation is a study of caregiving during the Great War, exploring life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western Front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, this study draws connections between the war machine and the wartime culture of caregiving: the product of medical knowledge and procedure, social relationships and health institutions that informed experiences of rest, recovery and rehabilitation in sites administered by military and voluntary-aid authorities.

Author : Carole Adrienne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361863
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing a Divided Nation written by Carole Adrienne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound and insightful investigation into how the American Civil War transformed modern medicine. At the start of the Civil War, the medical field in America was rudimentary, unsanitary, and woefully underprepared to address what would become the bloodiest conflict on U.S. soil. However, in this historic moment of pivotal social and political change, medicine was also fast evolving to meet the needs of the time. Unprecedented strides were made in the science of medicine, and as women and African Americans were admitted into the field for the first time. The Civil War marked a revolution in healthcare as a whole, laying the foundations for the system we know today. In Healing a Divided Nation, Carole Adrienne will track this remarkable and bloody transformation in its cultural and historical context, illustrating how the advancements made in these four years reverberated throughout the western world for years to come. Analyzing the changes in education, society, humanitarianism, and technology in addition to the scientific strides of the period lends Healing a Divided Nation a uniquely wide lens to the topic, expanding the legacy of the developments made. The echoes of Civil War medicine are in every ambulance, every vaccination, every woman who holds a paying job, and in every Black university graduate. Those echoes are in every response of the International and American Red Cross and they are in the recommended international protocol for the treatment of prisoners of war and wounded soldiers. Beginning with the state of medicine at the outset of the war, when doctors did not even know about sterilizing their tools, Adrienne illuminates the transformation in American healthcare through primary source texts that document the lives and achievements of the individuals who pioneered these changes in medicine and society. The story that ensues is one of American innovation and resilience in the face of unparalleled violence, adding a new dimension to the legacy of the Civil War.

Author : Jan C. Scruggs
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060923440
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Heal a Nation written by Jan C. Scruggs and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. R. Reid
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143118218
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Healing of America written by T. R. Reid and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill "Important and powerful . . . a rich tour of health care around the world." —Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. Now updated with new statistics and a plain-English explanation of the 2010 health care reform bill, The Healing of America is required reading for all those hoping to understand the state of health care in our country, and around the world. T. R. Reid's latest book, A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System, is also available from Penguin Press.

Author : William Russell Pregeant
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498235409
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Healing of the Nation written by William Russell Pregeant and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and "otherness," economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographical thread traces the journey of a white male coming of age in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South as his evolving faith leads him to painful breaks with inherited values and standard views on controversial issues. Critical not only of both major political parties but also of centrist compromises between Right and Left, Russell Pregeant seeks a "forward" position, which he terms "ecocommunitarian," based on biblical values. His musings touch on both southern and American identities and on the nature of the biblical writings and the ways they should and should not be used in contemporary debates. Central to the entire work are discussions of how idolatrous commitments to a culture's prevalent ideologies obscure the essential demands of biblical faith.

Author : Sandra M. Sufian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226779386
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Land and the Nation written by Sandra M. Sufian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, Healing the Land and the Nation traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, Sandra Sufian illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement’s efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension—erasing anti-Semitic stereotypes of the “parasitic” Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. Sufian shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. Taking its title from a Jewish public health mantra, Healing the Land and the Nation situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analyzing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, Sufian addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population in a decidedly innovative way. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the Middle East, Jewish studies, and environmental history, as well as to those studying colonialism, nationalism, and public health and medicine.

Author : Yucel Yanikdag
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074866579X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Nation written by Yucel Yanikdag and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Ottoman prisoners of war imprisoned in Russia and Egypt during the Great War understand of nation, culture and Islam? And what role did science play in the imagined future of the nation for the Ottoman-Turkish psychiatrists who diagnosed prisoners following post-war repatriation? Doctors' interpretation of prisoners' health issues led to far-reaching questions about the relationship between the prisoners' physical bodies and mental states on the one hand, and the body politic and collective mentality of the Turkish Republic during the interwar period, on the other. During the interwar years, when the military's vigour was still taken to be a reflection of the nation's health, doctors projected the worrisome picture of the shattered nerves of both prisoner and non-prisoner alike onto the nation at large. The Great War revealed the poor health of the nation and gave medical men the chance to regenerate it through eugenics. Just as officer prisoners in the camps excluded ignorant peasants from their discursive construction of the nation, the psychiatrists disqualified those seen to threaten the nation's body.

Author : Charles Linton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Healing of the Nations written by Charles Linton and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judy Foreman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199837201
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation in Pain written by Judy Foreman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From neurobiology to public policy, examines the chronic pain crisis, which is a major national health concern, discussing the latest scientific discoveries and advances in treatments and providing a sensible plan of action.

Author : David Barton Smith
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780472109913
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Care Divided written by David Barton Smith and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of race and the organization of health services