Constructing Paris Medicine

Constructing Paris Medicine

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9004333282

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In this volume of essays, leading scholars take a fresh look at the meaning and significance of the Paris Clinical School for the history of medicine and reassess the analysis of the two most noted authors on the topic in the twentieth century, Erwin H. Ackernecht and Michel Foucault.


Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915

Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915

Author: Loren Schweninger

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780252066344

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Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.


The Normans in Europe

The Normans in Europe

Author: Elisabeth Van Houts

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1526112671

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This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. As this study demonstrates, few other medieval peoples generated historical writing of such quantity and quality. Van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining their origin, the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the period between c. 900 to c. 1150. The Normans in Europe explores such areas as: the process of assimilation between Scandinavians and Franks and the emergence of Normandy; the internal organisation of the prinicpality with a variety of source materials from chronicles, miracle stories and charters; the roles of women and children in Norman society; the main chronicle sources for the history of the Norman invasion and settlement in Britain; the contacts between the Norman dukes and the territorial princes of France, and the progress of the Normans amongst the settlers in Southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.


Clinical Teaching, Past and Present

Clinical Teaching, Past and Present

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 900441830X

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As periodical of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, this Clio Medica volume contains 17 papers.


Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays

Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays

Author: Paul Fussell

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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"This is not a book to promote tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere," writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to this original, sharp, tart, and thoroughly engaging work. The celebrated author focuses his lethal wit on habitual euphemizers, artistically pretentious third-rate novelists, sexual puritans, and the "Disneyfiers of life". He moves from the inflammatory title piece on the morality of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima to a hilarious disquisition on the "naturist movement", to essays on the meaning of the Indy 500 race, on George Orwell, and on the shift in men's chivalric impulses toward their mothers. Fussell's "frighteningly acute eye for the manners, mores, and cultural tastes of Americans" (The New York Times Book Review) is abundantly evident in this entertaining dissection of the enemies of truth, beauty, and justice


Making a Medical Living

Making a Medical Living

Author: Anne Digby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521524513

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A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.


Medical Education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1995

Medical Education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1995

Author: Keir Waddington

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0851159192

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Traces the evolution of medical education at Barts from its foundation in 1123 to the college's merger with The London Hospital and Queen Mary & Westfield College in 1995. Medical Education at St Bartholomew's Hospital traces the evolution of medical education at Barts from its foundation in 1123 to the college's merger with The London and Queen Mary & Westfield College in 1995. Drawing on the hospital's rich archives, it investigates how training was institutionalised and organised at Barts to explore the shifting nature of medical education between the eighteenth and late-twentieth century. Medical Education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, in analysing the history of the medical college at Barts, explores the relationship between clinical study, science and the institution to look at the rise of the hospital student, the growth of laboratory medicine, and the evolution of a research culture. It places the changing nature of training at Barts in the context of metropolitan and national developments to analyse the structure of medical training, the University of London and its impact on medical education, and the experiences of the students and staff. Questions are asked about how academic medicine developed and about the relationship between training, the bedside, teaching hospitals and the politics of healthcare and higher education. In looking at these areas, existing notions of the "development" of medical education are problematised to provide a study that explores the nature of medical education at Barts and in London. KEIR WADDINGTON is lecturer in history at Cardiff University.


Bossa Nova

Bossa Nova

Author: Ruy Castro

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1613745745

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Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova—a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de Saudade—is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jo+o Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.