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Book Max Von Pettenkofer

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  • Author : Edgar Erskine Hume
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781258395759
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Max Von Pettenkofer written by Edgar Erskine Hume and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Explaining Epidemics

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  • Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-08-28
  • ISBN : 9780521395694
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Explaining Epidemics written by Charles E. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of author's essays previously published individually

Book Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine  1885 1935

Download or read book Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine 1885 1935 written by John M. Eyler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed an unprecedented expansion of preventive and therapeutic services offered by the state through its local authorities. Behind the expansion in public services were also profound changes in attitudes toward poverty and dependency and toward the political and cultural significance of health; changes in social policy and administration; and changes in the understanding of the causes of disease. This book examines this time of change through the ideas and experiences of one prominent participant, Sir Arthur Newsholme. Professor Eyler draws particular attention to Newsholme's role in constructing a highly successful local health programme; his tenure as the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board in Whitehall where he launched some of its boldest programmes including national health insurance; his post-retirement studies of international health systems; and his statistical and epidemiological studies and their connection to his policy recommendations.

Book Species and Specificity

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  • Author : Pauline M. H. Mazumdar
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-18
  • ISBN : 9780521525237
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Species and Specificity written by Pauline M. H. Mazumdar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of scientific disputes over the core problems of research and practice in immunology.

Book Max von Pottenkofer

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  • Author : Edgar Erskine Hume
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Max von Pottenkofer written by Edgar Erskine Hume and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of Medical History

Download or read book Annals of Medical History written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Medicine in Transition  1840 1910

Download or read book American Medicine in Transition 1840 1910 written by John S. Haller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.

Book The Lancet

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 742 pages

Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Pestilence  Pandemics  and Plagues  2 volumes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pestilence Pandemics and Plagues 2 volumes written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.

Book Urban Mortality Change in England and Germany  1870 1913

Download or read book Urban Mortality Change in England and Germany 1870 1913 written by Jörg Vögele and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a careful and well-written analysis, Vögele focuses attention on the question of when towns ceased to be relatively unhealthy compared with rural areas, with useful discussions of disease categories and issues concerning the different structuring of data in the British and German national contexts. Although the focus is on urban health conditions and epidemic control, these are related to a wide range of social factors. The text has valuable comparable insights, for example on urbanization and professionalization, and provides a lucid exposition of some major theories concerning the social determinants of diseases. With a sure grasp of mortality trends and associated socio-economic processes, Vögele presents a convincing picture from the early modern period of age-specific mortality trends. This is an important comparative historical study of mortality, in which the author offers an impressive synthesis of complex data and issues concerning rapid urbanization and social conditions. It will be of great interest to British and German historians as well as to those concerned with economic history, demographic history and the history of medicine and it will be a pivotal reference work for those seeking to apply demographic expertise to the understanding of changing disease patterns.

Book The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Download or read book The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Medicine

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  • Author : Lois N. Magner
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 1992-03-17
  • ISBN : 9780824786731
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book A History of Medicine written by Lois N. Magner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1992-03-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-technical, jargon-free presentation of the history of medicine from palaeopathology to recent theories and practices of modern medicine. It gives a wide-ranging overview of Western medicine and an introduction to the rich and varied medical traditions of the Near and Far East.;This text stresses the major themes in the history of medicine - placing the modern experience within the framework of historical issues - and it presents medical history as an important part of intellectual and social history, supplying students with an examination of the field that encourages them to question modern medical assumptions. Areas that are less familiar to students are highlighted, and case histories represent broader issues and trends.

Book Contagion and the State in Europe  1830 1930

Download or read book Contagion and the State in Europe 1830 1930 written by Peter Baldwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence the styles of precaution adopted? Or was it, as Peter Baldwin argues, a matter of more basic differences between nations, above all their geographic placement in the epidemiological trajectory of contagion, that helped shape their responses and their basic assumptions about the respective claims of the sick and of society, and fundamental political decisions for and against different styles of statutory intervention? Thus the book seeks to use medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state in Europe.

Book Leaps in the Dark

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  • Author : John Waller
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2004-10-28
  • ISBN : 9780191513022
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Leaps in the Dark written by John Waller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leaps in the Dark, John Waller presents another collection of revelations from the world of science. He considers experiments in which the scientists' awareness was not perhaps as keen as they might have claimed in retrospect; he investigates the jealousy and opposition that scientific ideas can provoke; he celebrates the scientists who were wrong, but for very good reasons; and he demonstrates how national interest can affect scientists and their theories. The result is an entertaining and highly readable re-examination of scientific discoveries and reputations from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The tales in Leaps in the Dark range across a wide historical field, from a seventeenth-century witch-finder, Joseph Glanvill, to Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the self-proclaimed 'Father of radar'. Each story underscores the rich, fascinating complexity of scientific discovery. Writing in a clear and engaging style, and skilfully weaving history in with the science, John Waller brings these scientists to life, illustrating how their work and their discoveries influenced their careers and the wider world around them.

Book Mankind vs Microbes

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  • Author : Nizam Damani
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2023-11-28
  • ISBN : 1805147099
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Mankind vs Microbes written by Nizam Damani and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind vs Microbes is part memoir, part history lesson in microbiology and infectious diseases. It is a compelling story written by one of the world's leading clinical microbiologists. Born in a poverty-stricken part of Pakistan, the author shares his personal life experience of infectious diseases, from Cholera to Covid, which he and his family members contracted during their lives. Despite his impoverished background, he pursues his dream of becoming a doctor. The book follows his journey through many struggles in his early life as he beats the odds to become a clinical microbiologist working across three continents and ultimately becoming one of the world's leading experts in infection prevention and control. Alongside the remarkable life story, the origins of each disease are explored utilising historical context and captivating accounts about the individuals who first fought against them. Scientific achievements and advances in infection prevention are presented in a succinct and engaging manner. The unique format allows the reader to dip in and out of any section, revealing fascinating facts about one man's lifetime commitment to fighting infections and highlighting how microbes have disrupted our lives since the dawn of mankind.