Medicine And Western Civilization

Author : David J. Rothman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521909
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Western Civilization written by David J. Rothman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.

Author : William Bechmann Wartman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Teaching in Western Civilization written by William Bechmann Wartman and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306480948
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography.

Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199248131
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Medicine written by Irvine Loudon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the advance of western medicine from ancient Greece, through the contributions of the great Islamic physicians, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans and organ transplants. Highlighting the great medical discoveries, contributors cover such topics as the relationship in the Renaissance between medicine and art, the tension between the church and an increasingly secularized medical professional class, epidemics and the geography of disease, and changing attitudes towards childbirth, mental disease, and the doctor-patient relationship. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134637187
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health, Civilization and the State written by Dorothy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.

Author : Paolo Palmieri
Publisher : Common Ground Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781863358637
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanistic Ecology written by Paolo Palmieri and published by Common Ground Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanistic ecology builds on the interrelatedness of traditions such as magic, medicine, and science, as exemplified in the history of Western civilization in order to integrate forgotten or marginalized pathways to knowledge and well-being.

Author : John Harley Warner
Publisher : Major Problems in American His
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health written by John Harley Warner and published by Major Problems in American His. This book was released on 2001 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a carefully selected group of readings on medical history and development that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548029
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Author : Winston Black
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487190
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents written by Winston Black and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces readers to the words and ideas of men and women from across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, from prominent physicians to humble healers. Each of the book’s ten chronological and thematic chapters is given a significant historical introduction, in which each primary source is described in its original context. Many of the included source texts are newly translated by the editor, some of them appearing in English for the first time.

Author : Deborah Lupton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine as Culture written by Deborah Lupton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: