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Author : Sarah Ward Neusius
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking Our Past written by Sarah Ward Neusius and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le cédérom contient des fichiers en format PDF.
Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171734
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking the Cure written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seeking the Cure tells the tale of American medicine with a series of little-known anecdotes that bring to life the grand and unceasing struggle by physicians to shed unsound, if venerated, beliefs and practices and adopt new medicines and treatments, often in the face of controversy and scorn. Rutkow expertly weaves the stories of individual doctors—what they believed and how they practiced—with the economic, political, and social issues facing the nation. Among the book’s many historical personages are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington (whose timely adoption of a controversial medical practice probably saved the Continental Army), Benjamin Rush, James Garfield (who was killed by his doctors, not by an assassin’s bullet), and Joseph Lister. The book touches such diverse topics as smallpox and the Revolutionary War, the establishment of the first medical schools, medicine during the Civil War, railroad medicine and the beginnings of specialization, the rise of the medical-industrial complex, and the thrilling yet costly advent of modern disease-curing technologies utterly unimaginable a generation ago, such as gene therapies, body scanners, and robotic surgeries. In our time of spirited national debate over the future of American health care amid a seemingly infinite flow of new medical discoveries and pharmaceutical products, Rutkow’s account provides readers with an essential historic, social, and even philosophical context. Working in the grand American literary tradition established by such eminent writer-doctors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks, he combines the historian’s perspective with the physician’s seasoned expertise. Capacious, learned, and gracefully told, Seeking the Cure will satisfy armchair historians and doctors alike, for, as Rutkow shows, the history of American medicine is a portrait of America itself.
Author : Monica Edinger
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking History written by Monica Edinger and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking History is one of the first books about using primary sources in elementary and middle school classrooms to enhance and deepen students' grapplings with history.
Author : R. Barry Lewis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159431
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kentucky Archaeology written by R. Barry Lewis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky's rich archaeological heritage spans thousands of years, and the Commonwealth remains fertile ground for study of the people who inhabited the midcontinent before, during, and after European settlement. This long-awaited volume brings together the most recent research on Kentucky's prehistory and early history, presenting both an accurate descriptive and an authoritative interpretation of Kentucky's past. The book is arranged chronologically -- from the Ice Age to modern times, when issues of preservation and conservation have overtaken questions of identification and classification. For each time slice of Kentucky's past, the contributors describe typical communities and settlement patterns, major changes from previous cultural periods, the nature of the economy and subsistence, artifacts, the general health and characteristics of the people, and regional cultural differences. Sites discussed include the Green River shell mounds, the Central Kentucky Adena mounds and enclosures, Eastern Kentucky rockshelters, the important Wickliffe site at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, Fort Ancient culture villages, and the fortified towns of the Mississippian period in Western Kentucky. The authors draw from a wealth of unpublished material and offer the detailed insights and perspectives of specialists who have focused much of their professional careers on the scientific investigation of Kentucky's prehistory. The book's many graphic elements -- maps, artifact drawings, photographs, and village plans -- combined with a straightforward and readable text, provide a format that will appeal to the general reader as well as to students and specialists in other fields who wish to learn more about Kentucky's archaeology.
Author : Claudia Helt
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982248904
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking Our Humanity Part Ii written by Claudia Helt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous quote may come to mind as you read this second volume in the Seeking Our Humanity series. In the first book, a small group of friends learned that the environmental crisis plaguing the Earth was not only grounded in our material pollution of land, seas and skies. A mysterious traveler from another plane of existence taught them that the Life Being Earth feels the anger, hatred, violence, and cruelty that people bear toward one another; they poison her life’s very essence. Gently and firmly, he emphasized the urgency of the crisis and the gravity of the stakes: Earth will soon reach a tipping point that will make her uninhabitable for humankind. The mysterious guest invited them to join with beings throughout the universe to rescue the Earth, and taught them the simple steps that they could take daily to help her heal from this invisible, deadly toxicity. Called and empowered to be part of the solution, they joined forces to do so. In this installment, the commitment of these twelve dear friends to the mission deepens and expands. As they hone their skills, they confront the deep-seated doubts and fears that arise from so daunting a challenge. Readers find themselves embraced in the tender compassion that permeates their relationships, the deep listening and encouragement that they share with one another. Those who seek to heal the Earth, find healing themselves.
Author : Amy Gajda
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880756
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seek and Hide written by Amy Gajda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gajda’s chronicle reveals an enduring tension between principles of free speech and respect for individuals’ private lives. …just the sort of road map we could use right now.”—The Atlantic “Wry and fascinating…Gajda is a nimble storyteller [and] an insightful guide to a rich and textured history that gets easily caricatured, especially when a culture war is raging.”—The New York Times An urgent book for today's privacy wars, and essential reading on how the courts have--for centuries--often protected privileged men's rights at the cost of everyone else's. Should everyone have privacy in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is there a right to be left alone even in the United States? You may be startled to realize that the original framers were sensitive to the importance of privacy interests relating to sexuality and intimate life, but mostly just for powerful and privileged (and usually white) men. The battle between an individual’s right to privacy and the public’s right to know has been fought for centuries. The founders demanded privacy for all the wrong press-quashing reasons. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis famously promoted First Amendment freedoms but argued strongly for privacy too; and presidents from Thomas Jefferson through Donald Trump confidently hid behind privacy despite intense public interest in their lives. Today privacy seems simultaneously under siege and surging. And that’s doubly dangerous, as legal expert Amy Gajda argues. Too little privacy leaves ordinary people vulnerable to those who deal in and publish soul-crushing secrets. Too much means the famous and infamous can cloak themselves in secrecy and dodge accountability. Seek and Hide carries us from the very start, when privacy concepts first entered American law and society, to now, when the law allows a Silicon Valley titan to destroy a media site like Gawker out of spite. Muckraker Upton Sinclair, like Nellie Bly before him, pushed the envelope of privacy and propriety and then became a privacy advocate when journalists used the same techniques against him. By the early 2000s we were on our way to today’s full-blown crisis in the digital age, worrying that smartphones, webcams, basement publishers, and the forever internet had erased the right to privacy completely.
Author : Claudia Helt
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982253320
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking Our Humanity Part Iii written by Claudia Helt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace abounds in the final installment of the Seeking Our Humanity trilogy. The eight friends, who originally committed to healing the Earth, continue to reach out, and wonderful new people with similar passions for saving Mother Earth enthusiastically join the cause. Friendships among the characters deepen, as do their relationships with the Earth and with the Visitor from another plane who first brought the news that Earth’s crisis was grounded in humankind’s violence, anger, and greed. Visibly present or not, this gentle man is an influential presence in the lives of the Family of Friends. Serving as a Guide and Spiritual Companion, he assists them individually and collectively as they face the deep-seated fears that underlie so much of humanity’s negative behavior and energy. Through their development, we, the readers, are assisted in facing the reality of our own personal impact upon self, others, and the Earth. We learn that our behaviors matter and that the ramifications of our words, actions, deeds, and ill will have devastating effects on those around us, including the Life Being Earth. This is a reality that must be faced. And we can! There is reason for hope! We are capable of making the necessary changes. Now, in this pivotal moment in time, we can make the most important changes in our history. We are not alone in this endeavor. For the sake of humanity and for the well being of the Earth, it is time for all the people of Earth to take the next step in becoming the peaceable beings that we are intended to be. Readers of Seeking Our Humanity, Part III are blessed to recognize themselves through the heartfelt development of our different characters and are moved to grow with them, more and more, toward becoming beings of loving kindness.
Author : Beret E. Strong
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645217X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking the Light written by Beret E. Strong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson were pioneers in medical research on external diseases of the human eye. Together, this husband-and-wife team shared a mutual story of extraordinary accomplishment including, among other things, the discovery of the cause of trachoma, a potentially blinding disease that affects millions of people worldwide. This comprehensive biography tells the story of their personal lives and careers. Beginning with their family backgrounds, the story continues through their meeting on the campus of Stanford University, their years of practicing "frontier medicine" in rural Colorado (where they built a log cabin with their own hands), their world travels in search of a cure for trachoma, and their considerable roles in establishing the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. The story of this couple is one of a lifelong collaboration in medicine, a 70-year love affair, and an unending quest to conquer preventable blindness around the world.
Author : Kay Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611172591
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seeking the Historical Cook written by Kay Moss and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guide to historical cooking techniques from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century receipt (recipe) books and an examination of how those methods can be used in kitches today"--Dust jacket.
Author : Kurt W. Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812250788
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania written by Kurt W. Carr and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is the definitive reference to the rich artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolution and includes environmental studies, descriptions and illustrations of artifacts and features, settlement pattern studies, and recommendations for directions of further research.
