Download or read book Can Medicine Be Cured written by Seamus O'Mahony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion. 'A deeply fascinating and rousing book' Mail on Sunday. 'What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just O'Mahony's scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty' The Times.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Quackery written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Peter E. Pormann and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The mirror of health: discovering medicine in the Golden Age of Islam' examines the Royal College of Physicians' collection of Arabic and Persian medical texts - which has never been on public display before. This catalogue and the accompanying 2013 exhibition explore the development of medical science in the Middle East and Europe, via the medical traditions that developed in the heartland of Islam from the 9th to the 17th century. This fascinating story is illustrated by the RCP's collection of Islamic manuscripts dating from the 1200s to the 1900s."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Roger Cooter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains over forty authoritiative essays, focusing on the political economy of medicine and health, understandings of the body and transformations of some of the theatres of medicine.
Download or read book Polio Wars written by Naomi Rogers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
Download or read book A Golden Century of Medicine written by Henry B. Selleck and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matters of Exchange written by Harold John Cook and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents evidence that Dutch commerce, not religion, inspired the rise of science in the 16th and 17th centuries. Scrutinises many historical documents relating to the study of medicine and natural history during this era, showing direct links between commerce and trade, and the flourishing of scientific investigation.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Age of Medical Science and the Dark Age of Healthcare Delivery written by Sylvan Lee Weinberg and published by Charles Press Pubs(PA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as one of the foremost medical editorialists of our time, Sylvan Wcinberg, MD has authored this collection of highly acclaimed essays about the current state of modern American healthcare -- a paradoxical combination of the best and the worst -- hence the title, The Golden Age of Medical Science and the Dark Age of Healthcare Delivery. The last decades of the 20th century have seen spectacular progress in the science of medicine. In the field of cardiology, heart attacks that meant certain death only a short time ago can now be treated, enabling people to live active lives for many years. New discoveries in molecular biology and genetics will soon allow us to diagnose and treat patients in ways that only yesterday were the stuff of science fiction. However, paralleling these brilliant advances, there has been an equally dramatic deterioration in the delivery of healthcare to millions of Americans, caused in large part by the advent of the managed care health insurance industry.In an effort to control rising healthcare costs, the managed care-insurance complex has imposed harsh measures on hospitals, doctors, patients and university medical centers. The results have had a depressing and chilling effect on every aspect of American healthcare. Doctor's autonomy in making medical decisions has been abrogated. Doctor-patient relationships have been shattered. Many patients have lost access to specialists and to the doctors of their choice. Nursing and ancillary staffs and the length of hospital stays have been reduced, often to the detriment of patient care. Relationships between doctors and hospitals have become adversarial.These are the highly charged issues that SylvanWeinberg addresses in this important new addition to the medical literature and to the public dialogue. With his unique ability to cut to the core and frame critical questions, Dr. Weinberg-blends discussions of contemporary medical progress with incisive commentaries on the philosophic, political and socioeconomic forces that have changed not only medical practice, education and research but how every person in this country receives medical care.This new book will be important reading for doctors, patients, medical educators, hospital administrators, health insurance executives and everyone else who is concerned with bringing medical science and patient care into balance in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Medicine written by Leslie Hurley and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Medicine written by Arturo Castiglioni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 1317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century. The book looks at the close relationship between the progress of medicine and its advancement of civilization, it covers the development of medicine from, old magical rites, religious creeds, classical Hippocratism and revolutionary discoveries, while looking at the associated economic, intellectual, and political conditions of life in different nations, during different times. The book provides an essential and detailed look at the rich history of medicine and how it has impacted society.
Download or read book A golden century of medicine centennial of the Wayne County Michigan Medical Society written by Henry B. Selleck and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part of the Duke Medical Center Library History of Medicine Ephemera Collection.
Download or read book Medieval Islamic Medicine written by Peter E. Pormann and published by New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.
Download or read book Nuggets from the Golden Age of Medicine written by Kenneth Charles Bagby MD and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories related in this book are all true-life experiences. For the most part I have tried to emphasize the positive and sometimes humorous nature of these stories. Some I have shared with the several hundred medical students who through the years have spent their medical school family practice rotations in our clinic. Those rotations and these real-life stories have served to help everyone to better understand the nature and responsibilities of family practice in a rural community in which many of them will choose to live. The process of writing has made me realize even more so that through the years it has been an HONOR and a PRIVILEGE to have been included in some of the most joyful, and in the most stressful times of the lives of the patients and families who entrusted their care to me. - K. C. Bagby, M.D.
Download or read book Choose Your Medicine written by Lewis A. Grossman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the Trump Era. Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishment. The country's history is also, however, brimming with social movements that have condemned such restrictions as violations of fundamental American liberties. This fierce conflict is one of the defining features of the social history of medicine in the United States. In Choose Your Medicine, Lewis A. Grossman presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American health policy, law, and regulation from the Revolution through the Trump Era. Grossman grounds his analysis in historical examples ranging from unschooled supporters of botanical medicine in the early nineteenth century to sophisticated cancer patient advocacy groups in the twenty-first. He vividly describes how activists and lawyers have resisted a wide variety of legal constraints on therapeutic choice, including medical licensing statutes, FDA limitations on unapproved drugs and alternative remedies, abortion restrictions, and prohibitions against medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. Grossman also considers the relationship between these campaigns for desired treatments and widespread opposition to state-compelled health measures such as vaccines and face masks. From the streets of San Francisco to the US Supreme Court, Choose Your Medicine examines an underexplored theme of American history, politics, and law that is more relevant today than ever.
Download or read book A Golden Century of Black Medicine written by Barbara A. Woods and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutions in Physiology and Medicine written by Gabor M. Rubanyi and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes events, starting in 1980, that lead to a revolution in physiology and medicine by the recognition of the biological role played by the free radicals, nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide (02-), and their ‘toxic’ combination, peroxynitrite (ONOO-).
