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Book The Family Guide to Health  Or  A General Practice of Physic  in a Familiar Way  Containing the Most Approved Methods of Cure for the Several Disorders of the Human Body  from the Writings and Practice of the Most Emminent Physicians     To which is Prefixed an Introduction     the Preservation of Health and     Concerning the Pulse  by Dr  Tissot  With a Supplement Containing Directions for Bleeding  by Dr  Theobald  And an Abstract of the Narrative     of the Surprising Effects of the Meadow Saffron  in the Cure of the Dropsy  by Dr  A  Storke     And     Particular Directions for Inoculating the Small Pox     by Dr  Dimsdale  and Others

Download or read book The Family Guide to Health Or A General Practice of Physic in a Familiar Way Containing the Most Approved Methods of Cure for the Several Disorders of the Human Body from the Writings and Practice of the Most Emminent Physicians To which is Prefixed an Introduction the Preservation of Health and Concerning the Pulse by Dr Tissot With a Supplement Containing Directions for Bleeding by Dr Theobald And an Abstract of the Narrative of the Surprising Effects of the Meadow Saffron in the Cure of the Dropsy by Dr A Storke And Particular Directions for Inoculating the Small Pox by Dr Dimsdale and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The family guide to health

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Book Exhaustion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna K. Schaffner
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 0231538855
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Exhaustion written by Anna K. Schaffner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.

Book Hysteria Beyond Freud

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  • Author : Sander L. Gilman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-03-29
  • ISBN : 0520309936
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Hysteria Beyond Freud written by Sander L. Gilman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Book A Vital Rationalist

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  • Author : Georges Canguilhem
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2000-04-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book A Vital Rationalist written by Georges Canguilhem and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians that there could be no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge. A Vital Rationalist brings together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges. Organized around the major themes and problems that have preoccupied Canguilhem throughout his intellectual career, the collection allows readers, whether familiar or unfamiliar with Canguilhem's work, access to a vast array of conceptual and concrete meditations on epistemology, methodology, science, and history. Canguilhem is a demanding writer, but Delaporte succeeds in marking out the main lines of his thought with unrivaled clarity; readers will come away with a heightened understanding of the complex and crucial place he holds in French intellectual history.

Book Essentials of Exercise Physiology

Download or read book Essentials of Exercise Physiology written by William D. McArdle and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated, this Third Edition provides excellent coverage of the fundamentals of exercise physiology, integrating scientific and clinical information on nutrition, energy transfer, and exercise training. The book is lavishly illustrated with full-color graphics and photos and includes real-life cases, laboratory-type activities, and practical problem-solving questions. This edition has an Integrated Workbook in the margins that reinforces concepts, presents activities to test knowledge, and aids students in taking notes. An accompanying CD-ROM contains multiple-choice and true/false questions to help students prepare for exams. LiveAdvise online faculty support and student tutoring services are available free with the text.

Book The History of Spiritualism

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  • Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN : 1427081425
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The History of Spiritualism written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1926 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mighty Lewd Books

Download or read book Mighty Lewd Books written by J. Peakman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.

Book The History of Magic

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  • Author : Éliphas Lévi
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2023-07-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book The History of Magic written by Éliphas Lévi and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History of Magic" by Éliphas Lévi (translated by Arthur Edward Waite). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Romanticism  Medicine and the Natural Supernatural

Download or read book Romanticism Medicine and the Natural Supernatural written by Gavin Budge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.

Book A Critical History of Schizophrenia

Download or read book A Critical History of Schizophrenia written by Kieran McNally and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.

Book Exercise Physiology

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  • Author : William D. McArdle
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780781752701
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Exercise Physiology written by William D. McArdle and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised, updated Fifth Edition textbook provides excellent coverage of exercise physiology concepts integrated with relevant scientific information. A basic foundation to understand nutrition, energy transfer and exercise training, it unites the topics of physical conditioning, sports nutrition, body composition, weight control and more. Chapters contain bulleted Objectives and Summaries that promote mastery of the material. A "Focus on Research" section features synopses of published studies, and interviews with nine contemporary scientists inspire students to realize their professional potential. "Integrative Questions" pose open-ended questions for considerable reflection on complex concepts. Many new additions enhance this must-have text.

Book The Book of Splendours

Download or read book The Book of Splendours written by Eliphas Levi and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1973-06-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first part of Eliphas Levi's last great descourse on the mysteries of occultism that was continued and concluded in The Great Secret. In it, Levi examines with great precision and insight the inner meanings of Qabalism and their relationship to the occult sciences. Part One is a commentary on the Spihra Dzeniuta by Simeon BenJochal, which includes an examination of the affinities between Qabalism and Freemasonry. Part Two pursues the correspondences between Qabalism, Numerology and the Tarot. This edition includes an appendix by Papus (Dr. Gerard Encausse) summarizing Levi's doctrines and teachings and supplying some fascinating information on some of the master's many disciples.

Book Discourse Networks  1800 1900

Download or read book Discourse Networks 1800 1900 written by Friedrich A. Kittler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between 'discourse networks' in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism that is currently of great interest among American literary scholars, both in the intellectual influences to which Kittler responds and in his concern to ground literature in the most concrete details of historical reality. The artful structure of the book begins with Goethe's Faust and ends with Vale;ry's Faust. In the 1800 section, the author discusses how language was learned, the emergence of the modern university, the associated beginning of the interpretation of contemporary literature, and the canonization of literature. Among the writers and works Kittler analyzes in addition to Goethe's Faust are Schlegel, Hegel, E. T. A. Hoffman's 'The Golden Pot', and Goethe's Tasso. The 1900 section argues that the new discourse network in which literature is situated in the modern period is characterized by new technological media - film, the photograph, and the typewritten page - and the crisis that these caused for literary production. Along the way, the author discusses the work of Nietzsche, Gertrude Stein, Mallarme;, Bram Stroker, the Surrealists, Rilke, Kafka, and Freud, among others.

Book Life of Voltaire

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  • Author : Stephen G. Tallentyre
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 602 pages

Download or read book Life of Voltaire written by Stephen G. Tallentyre and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Johnson  1748 1798

Download or read book The Age of Johnson 1748 1798 written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: