Download or read book Medicine The Cure Is Worse than the Disease written by Rui Alexandre Gabirro and published by Order of the Good News. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Introduction........................................................................................1 Chapter I What is Medicine......................................................................2 The Medical Trade, and its Monopoly on Health ...............4 Unjust Medical Legislation.....................................................4 The Medical Understanding of Disease is Nil....................13 Prevention of the Diseases that are Common, Amongst the People.....................................................................................13 Definition of Disease..............................................................14 The Classification of Symptoms...........................................14 The Perplexing Problems of the Medical Trade.................14 Medical Treatment.................................................................15 Intellectually Bankrupt..........................................................16 Prejudice Squints when it Looks, and Lies when it Speaks...........................................................................................16 We Bleed, We Purge, We Narcotise.....................................17 Men May Live Fools, but Fools they Cannot Die..............18 Physic has been defined as: “The Art of Amusing the Patient, while Nature Cures the Disease.”..............................20 Who's the Father of Medicine...............................................22 The Epidemiology of Multimorbidity.................................23 The 36 Most Common Health Conditions..........................24 Medical View: Disease Is Only About Biochemical Deficiencies..................................................................................26 Chapter II Medicine Versus Health .......................................................28 Definition of Health and Medicine......................................28 The Difference Between Health and Medicine..................29 Chapter III Medical Art..............................................................................32 Death Rate Drops During Doctor Strike.............................34 When Doctors Strike, Fewer Patients Die...........................35 Attempt to Relieving Pain Without Dealing with the Cause.............................................................................................35 Medicine the Destructive Art of Healing............................36 The Medical Art......................................................................37 Origin of the Medical Art......................................................40 The Rise of Medicine..............................................................41 Medical Hospitals...................................................................42 Abuse of Rest as a Therapeutic Measure............................43 Complete Bed Rest as a Highly Unphysiologic And Definitely Hazardous Form of Therapy..................................44 Nature and Art in the Cure of Disease................................45 The Chief Provisions of the Hippocratic Oath...................46 Concerning the Title of Doctor.............................................46 The Philosophy of Medical Cure..........................................47 When Medical Men in General Shall Study.......................48 The Relationship Between Theory and Therapy...............49 Medical Freedom....................................................................50 Chapter IV Medical Science.......................................................................53 Science Delusion.....................................................................57 The Growth of Scientific Medicine......................................58 The Science and Art of Medicine.........................................59 Tower of Babel and Medicine...............................................60 Scientific Medicine.................................................................60 The Sad & True Story of the Science and State of Medicine.......................................................................................61 Pseudo-Science.......................................................................63 Medicine can Never be an Exact Science............................64 The False Premise...................................................................65 The Classification of Diseases...............................................66 Unnatural, Distorted and Inconsistent Practice of Healing.........................................................................................67 The Medical Octopus.............................................................68 Doctors of Medicine Cannot Cure.......................................69 Fallacious Faith on Medical Practice...................................69 Let see what Medical Science is Offering............................70 Medical Teaching is Incredibly Faulty and Defective.......70 The Laboratoromania of the Medical Trade.......................72 The Field of Medicine............................................................72 The Practice of Medicine as Fudge......................................73 Observations and Exact Findings........................................74 Body Anatomical Structure...................................................76 Empirical Science, Vitalism or What?..................................76 Medical Science is Founded on a False Premise................78 Diagnosing a Medical Delusion...........................................81 Disease Cannot Be Its Own Cause: Neither can it be its own cure, and certainly not its own Prevention....................82 The Medical World is Looking for Cures...........................82 Scientific Medicine is Helpless.............................................83 Focal Infection.........................................................................84 The Scandal of Poor Medical Research...............................84 Medical Research - Still a Scandal........................................85 Killing For A Profit?...............................................................85 Why Most Published Research Findings Are False...........85 Scientific Literature Half may Simply be Untrue..............86 Drug Companies and Doctors; A story of Corruption.....86 Lister’s Blunder.......................................................................87 Dr. David Brownstein Story..................................................87 Modern Medicine Not a Science..........................................91 Ignorance Has Become Commonplace In Medical Practice.........................................................................................92 Bacteria in the Brains.............................................................93 Let's Go Back 100 Years.........................................................94 A Demonstration of Treponema Pallidum in the Brain in cases of General Paralysis..........................................................94 Chapter V The Pharmaceutical Drug Medical System........................97 Poisonous Medications..........................................................98 But on to the Facts..................................................................99 Drug Medicines were Worse than Useless.......................100 Then it was that People Began to Die................................102 Dr. Jennings of Oberlin, Ohio.............................................104 Florence Nightingale............................................................105 Drugs Always Produce Disease.........................................106 The Deadly virtues of the Healing Art..............................108 Take his Good Advice and Refuse his Bad Medicine.....109 Poisonopathy........................................................................110 A Few Words as to the Forms of Disease.........................111 Allopaths say it is: Contraria Contrariis Curantur “Contraries Cure Opposites”..................................................111 What are its Agents, its Medicines, and its Remedies....113 This Patient Rapidly Recovered under Hygienic Treatment...................................................................................115 Effect of Drugs......................................................................115 Secondary Diseases..............................................................116 Medical Economics...............................................................120 Koch Antitoxins Therapy....................................................121 Chapter VI Medical School......................................................................124 The College Itself..................................................................126 Real Education Versus Engraved Pieces of Paper...........127 The Progressive School........................................................128 Teaching and the Teacher...................................................129 Medical Training..................................................................130 Something Missing...............................................................130 The Chief Object of Medical Men......................................131 Clinical Observations...........................................................131 Fascia Removal from Anatomy Books..............................132 Nothing To Do......................................................................132 William Harvey....................................................................134 The Prejudices of the Profession........................................134 The Persecution of Dr William Harvey............................135 Can talk Latin, Greek and English, at the Bed-Sides of their Patients..............................................................................136 Chapter VII Pernicious Effects of Blood-Letting...................................141 Chapter VIII Of the Ignorance Existing Respecting the Power of Nature to Cure Diseases........................................................................147 Nature, or, in other words, the Inherent Powers of the Animal Economy, Are Either Entirely Ignored....................148 Natural course of the Morbid Processes...........................150 Curative Powers of Nature.................................................153 Ignore or Depreciate the Working of Nature...................158 Chapter IX Medical Practice....................................................................164 On the Educational Value of the Medical Society...........165 Angina in Doctors................................................................165 Specialists and Specialism...................................................166 With Regards to the Medical Clinic School......................166 Chapter X Psychiatry..............................................................................169 The Merits of Psycho-Analysis And the Claims of its Advocates...................................................................................169 The Four False Pillars...........................................................171 The Basic Fallacy...................................................................171 Biopsychiatry........................................................................171 Keys to Defeating the Four False Pillars of Psychiatry: A Quick Reference................................................................173 Chapter XI The Treatment of Disease....................................................176 Rheumatism..........................................................................185 Alkaline Treatment..............................................................186 Remedies................................................................................186 Hygienic Measures...............................................................187 Chapter XII The Forgotten Facts and Truths of Drugs …....................191 Chapter XIII Placebo and Nocebo Responses.........................................209 Intentional Ignorance...........................................................209 The Placebo Effect................................................................210 Chapter XIV Medical Illusion....................................................................214 Type 2 Diabetes.....................................................................212 Tendinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes......................................214 Third leading Cause of Death.............................................216 Healthcare Against Health..................................................217 Dr Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO on Medicine...............218 Both Guess-Work..................................................................218 Chapter XV Needless Surgery..................................................................222 One Operation Leads to Another.......................................224 Operating on the Problem Instead of the Person.............225 Never Found Necessary to Perform a Tenotomy............226 To Be Operated.....................................................................227 Answer to this Query...........................................................228 Diagnosis in Hemorrhoid Cases........................................228 There is Nothing so Futile as to Attempt to Remove an Imaginary Pain by a Surgical Operation...............................229 Acute Intestinal Intoxications.............................................229 Nature Heals.........................................................................230 Disease is a Common Expression of Enervation.............230 Medical Freedom..................................................................231 One of the Most Common Cause of Chronic Invalidism..................................................................................232 Physio Therapeutic Measures.............................................233 Chapter XVI Nutrition................................................................................236 In Regard to the Diet of the Patient...................................239 The Subject of Food and its Influence Upon Health.......240 The First Diseases are Digestive Disturbances................242 Knowledge of Diet...............................................................242 Foods that Keeps Indefinitely.............................................243 Raw Foods.............................................................................244 The Medical Trade Ignorance of Dietetics........................244 The Medical Trade Ignorance of Food Values.................248 Medical Trade Specialities..................................................249 Chapter XVII Body Mind Soul....................................................................258 The Influence which the Mind Exerts over the Body......260 Chapter XVIII Women Risk Losing Ability to Give Birth Naturally......265 The Hygiene of Pregnancy..................................................267 Curettage...............................................................................267 It’s Time to Stop Infantilizing Pregnant Women.............268 Chapter XIX Deaths of Medical Doctors..................................................270 Death Rate from Intestinal Diseases..................................272 Mortality Rates and Causes Among U.S. Physicians......272 Suicide Rates Among Physicians.......................................272 Mortality Among Norwegian Doctors..............................273 Mental Health Issues...........................................................273 Chapter XX Advice to the Medical Trade...............................................275 Bias in Medicine....................................................................276 The last laugh........................................................................277 This is the Reality..................................................................278 How the Indians Cure Lock-Haw......................................279 The Persecution of Neuropathy by Medical Trade..........280 From our Exchanges Special Favours to None in Medical Legislation..................................................................................282 Thorough Training Essential for the Practice of the Healing Art.................................................................................284 Valid Law, Meaning of Word “Medicine”- Neuropathy.286 The American Medical Association Becomes An Autocracy....................................................................................288 Lay Control of Medicine......................................................289 Adams County Condemns State and Federal Activities in the Field of Medicine.......................................................289 The Medical Trade................................................................290 Last Words.............................................................................292 Index 293

Download or read book Chasing My Cure written by David Fajgenbaum and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure—and became a champion for a new approach to medical research. “A wonderful and moving chronicle of a doctor’s relentless pursuit, this book serves both patients and physicians in demystifying the science that lies behind medicine.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene David Fajgenbaum, a former Georgetown quarterback, was nicknamed the Beast in medical school, where he was also known for his unmatched mental stamina. But things changed dramatically when he began suffering from inexplicable fatigue. In a matter of weeks, his organs were failing and he was read his last rites. Doctors were baffled by his condition, which they had yet to even diagnose. Floating in and out of consciousness, Fajgenbaum prayed for a second chance, the equivalent of a dramatic play to second the game into overtime. Miraculously, Fajgenbaum survived—only to endure repeated near-death relapses from what would eventually be identified as a form of Castleman disease, an extremely deadly and rare condition that acts like a cross between cancer and an autoimmune disorder. When he relapsed while on the only drug in development and realized that the medical community was unlikely to make progress in time to save his life, Fajgenbaum turned his desperate hope for a cure into concrete action: Between hospitalizations he studied his own charts and tested his own blood samples, looking for clues that could unlock a new treatment. With the help of family, friends, and mentors, he also reached out to other Castleman disease patients and physicians, and eventually came up with an ambitious plan to crowdsource the most promising research questions and recruit world-class researchers to tackle them. Instead of waiting for the scientific stars to align, he would attempt to align them himself. More than five years later and now married to his college sweetheart, Fajgenbaum has seen his hard work pay off: A treatment he identified has induced a tentative remission and his novel approach to collaborative scientific inquiry has become a blueprint for advancing rare disease research. His incredible story demonstrates the potency of hope, and what can happen when the forces of determination, love, family, faith, and serendipity collide. Praise for Chasing My Cure “A page-turning chronicle of living, nearly dying, and discovering what it really means to be invincible in hope.”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit “[A] remarkable memoir . . . Fajgenbaum writes lucidly and movingly . . . Fajgenbaum’s stirring account of his illness will inspire readers.”—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Best Friends written by Martha Moody and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Moody's national bestseller—a compassionate and tender novel about best friends from college. A testament to the power of female friendship. When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, she’s never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare—and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rose—charismatic, charming, and owner of a profitable business shrouded in secrey—is nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daughter. California seems like paradise after winters in Ohio. And Clare begins to look forward desperately to these visits, to carefree rides in Sally’s Kharmann Ghia and lazy poolside days. As the years pass, Clare becomes a doctor and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets might—for as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend.

Download or read book HATE written by Nadine Strossen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated paperback edition of HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. As "hate speech" has no generally accepted definition, we hear many incorrect assumptions that it is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, U.S. law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory speech in specific contexts when it directly causes imminent serious harm. Yet, government may not punish such speech solely because its message is disfavored, disturbing, or vaguely feared to possibly contribute to some future harm. "Hate speech" censorship proponents stress the potential harms such speech might further: discrimination, violence, and psychic injuries. However, there has been little analysis of whether censorship effectively counters the feared injuries. Citing evidence from many countries, this book shows that "hate speech" are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. Therefore, prominent social justice advocates worldwide maintain that the best way to resist hate and promote equality is not censorship, but rather, vigorous "counterspeech" and activism.

Download or read book Covid 19 and Governance written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and health outcomes. Bringing together analyses of Covid-19 developments in countries and regions across the world with a wide-angle lens on governance, this volume asks: what works, what hasn’t and isn’t, and why? Organized by region, the book is structured to follow the spread of Covid-19 in the course of 2020, through Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The analyses explore a number of key themes, including public health systems, government capability, and trust in government—as well as underlying variables of social cohesion and inequality. This volume combines governance, policies, and politics to bring wide international scope and analytical depth to the study of the Covid-19 pandemic. Together the authors represent a diverse and formidable database of experience and understanding. They include sociologists, anthropologists, scholars of development studies and public administration, as well as MD specialists in public health and epidemiology. Engaged and free of jargon, this book speaks to a wide global public—including scholars, students, and policymakers—on a topic that has profound and broad appeal.

Download or read book Unbroken Brain written by Maia Szalavitz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment. Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality," The New York Times Bestseller, Unbroken Brain, offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum -- and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all. Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research,Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction. Her writings on radical addiction therapies have been featured in The Washington Post, Vice Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, in addition to multiple other publications. She has been interviewed about her book on many radio shows including Fresh Air with Terry Gross and The Brian Lehrer show.

Download or read book The End of October written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal). At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright’s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.

Download or read book Lyme Disease written by Alan G. Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disease carried by ticks. Book for general public. How to avoid getting it, the risks in catching it, diagnostic tests, proven and unproven treatments.

Download or read book The Deep Places written by Ross Douthat and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. “A powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in the face of chronic illness.”—Kate Bowler, bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain--a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition--and no medically approved cure. From a rural dream house that now felt like a prison, Douthat's search for help takes him off the map of official medicine, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly, against his instincts and assumptions, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right, that many supposed "hypochondriacs" are victims of an indifferent medical establishment, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence, in the places underneath. The Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves, day by dreadful day, that you are stronger than you ever imagined, and that even in the depths there is always hope.

Download or read book Quackery written by Lydia Kang and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.

Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.

Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 6 written by King K. Holmes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.

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Download or read book Anxious Politics written by Bethany Albertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety affects the news we consume, who we trust, and what public policies we support.

Download or read book Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius written by Pierre Bayle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius is the first English translation of Pierre Bayle’s last book, Entretiens de Maxime et de Thémiste, published posthumously in 1707. The two parts of the Dialogues offer Bayle’s final responses to Jean Le Clerc and Isaac Jaquelot, who had accused Bayle of supporting atheism through his writings on the problem of evil. The Dialogues defends Bayle’s thesis that the problem of evil cannot be solved by reason alone, but serves only to demonstrate the necessity of faith. In his Introduction to the Dialogues, Michael W. Hickson provides detailed historical and philosophical background to the problem of evil in early modern philosophy, as well as summary and analysis of Bayle’s debates with Le Clerc and Jaquelot.

Download or read book Polio written by Thomas Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.

Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.