Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the pace of medical discoveries has slowed in the last twenty-five years due to excessive emphasis on the social and political aspects of health care, and to controversies caused by ethical issues.
Download or read book The Rise Progress and Present State of Medicine a Discourse Delivered at Concord Before the Middlesex Medical Association Etc written by Benjamin Waterhouse and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Rise Progress and Present State of Medicine written by Benjamin Waterhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise, Progress, and Present State of Medicine: A Discourse, Delivered at Concord, July 6th, 1791; Before the Middlesex Medical Association This was the aera of experiment in which fe veral great geniufes flourifhed. Societies for promoting and diffufing experimental knowledge were ef'cablifhed in different parts of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this judicious examination of medicine in our times, which has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new "miracle" cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first century. "[From] a respected science writer . . . important information that . . . has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians." —New Republic "Provocative and engrossing and informative." —Houston Chronicle
Download or read book Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine written by Thomas H. Lee and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the improved survival rate from heart attack can be traced to Eugene Braunwald's work. He proved that myocardial infarction was an hours-long dynamic process which could be altered by treatment. Thomas H. Lee tells the life story of a physician whose activist approach transformed not just cardiology but the culture of American medicine.
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