The Untold History Of Modern Medicine From The Future A Short Story

Author : Joshua Alexander
Publisher : Joshua Alexander
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Untold History of Modern Medicine from the Future: A Short Story written by Joshua Alexander and published by Joshua Alexander. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting tale of corruption, deception, and lies in the medical industry. Families were broken, lives lost, and countless suffering was caused. However, with awareness comes hope! A history told from the future, so that we do not repeat the past. Hold onto your seats and get ready to have your mind blown!

Author : Allen M. Hornblum
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137363452
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Their Will written by Allen M. Hornblum and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived threats coming from the Soviet Union. In Against Their Will, authors Allen Hornblum, Judith Newman, and Gregory Dober reveal the little-known history of unethical and dangerous medical experimentation on children in the United States. Through rare interviews and the personal correspondence of renowned medical investigators, they document how children—both normal and those termed "feebleminded"—from infants to teenagers, became human research subjects in terrifying experiments. They were drafted as "volunteers" to test vaccines, doused with ringworm, subjected to electric shock, and given lobotomies. They were also fed radioactive isotopes and exposed to chemical warfare agents. This groundbreaking book shows how institutional superintendents influenced by eugenics often turned these children over to scientific researchers without a second thought. Based on years of archival work and numerous interviews with both scientific researchers and former test subjects, this is a fascinating and disturbing look at the dark underbelly of American medical history.

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ISBN 13 : 9814470589
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maia Szalavitz
Publisher : Hachette GO
ISBN 13 : 9780738285764
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undoing Drugs written by Maia Szalavitz and published by Hachette GO. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling Unbroken Brain tackles the revolutionary concept of harm reduction, how it can transform the treatment of addiction, and how it holds the potential to revolutionize our treatment of behavioral and societal issues. In her New York Times bestseller Unbroken Brain, journalist Maia Szalavitz took an unflinching look at addiction, challenging the idea of the "broken brain" to offer a groundbreaking perspective on addiction as a learning disorder. Now she turns her keen eye and narrative powers to the surprisingly simple--and extremely divisive--practice of harm reduction, which is a revolutionary means to solving the drug addiction crisis. Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But in the name of "sending the right message," we have criminalized drug addiction, denied those who are addicted medical care, housing and other benefits, and have deliberately allowed the spread of fatal diseases. Yet there is an alternative to our present system, one that has been proven to work, but which runs counter to the received wisdom of our criminal and medical industrial complexes. It is called harm reduction. A surprisingly simple idea with enormous power, harm reduction takes the focus off of drug use and instead works to minimize associated damage. It represents the philosophy behind needle exchange programs and providing heroin addicts with the overdose medication naloxone instead of arresting them. It is focused not on punishing pleasure but on minimizing harm; in essence, it is a wholesale refutation of the American way of justice. Undoing Drugs tells the story of harm reduction. It will show how this concept has begun to transform the treatment of addiction and how it holds the potential to revolutionize how we deal with a range of other urgent behavioral and societal issues. Harm reduction challenges people to prioritize radical empathy and kindness over punishment as a way of not only dealing with drug use, but also in questions related to racism, sexism, disability and inequality. And, as Szalavitz shows, it says unequivocally that we must be more concerned about saving lives and health than about criminalizing quality-of-life crimes. Szalavitz argues for a practical application of the Hippocratic oath to "First, do no harm" beyond medicine and to those who urgently need it most.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242447
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science) written by Roy Porter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-10-17 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D. Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to today's threat of AIDS and ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book "has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field" (The Lancet). "The author's perceptiveness is, as usual, scalpel-sharp; his manner genially bedside; his erudition invigorating." - Simon Schama

Author : Anne Rooney
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448873703
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Medicine written by Anne Rooney and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the development of medicine is intriguing, and involves countless trial and error. Readers learn of the stories less-often heard of in this intriguing volume. They learn about the genesis of the medicine we often take for granted today; learning of these back stories, readers will gain an appreciation for common treatments to afflictions that often proved fatal in the past.

Author : Ira S. Brodsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980038316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Future of Medical Technology written by Ira S. Brodsky and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Future of Medical Technology tells the story behind today's advanced medical technologies: how they were developed, how they work their magic, and how they are likely to evolve over the next several years. The book gives readers a front row view of the discoveries and inventions that transformed medicine into an exact science. It demystifies the technologies found in modern hospitals and clinics showing how they satisfy real and pressing needs. And it covers the latest advances in areas including robotic surgery, brain-computer interface chips, artificial retinas, and nanomedicine.

Author : Jeremy A. Greene
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 142142164X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generic written by Jeremy A. Greene and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greene’s history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care.

Author : William Osler
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789355111340
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Modern Medicine; A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 written by William Osler and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Modern Medicine; A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Author : William Osler
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN 13 : 9781438531045
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Modern Medicine written by William Osler and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Evolution of Modern Medicine "consists of a series of historic lectures delivered by William Osler at Yale University in 1913. In these lectures, of which exists only one in-print edition, the renowned physician and medical historian Osler chronicles the history of medical science from its most ancient origins to the rise of modern medicine, in which he played an important role.