A Wilderness of Marshes
A Wilderness of Marshes

Author: Kerrie L. Macpherson

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780739103692

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The successful emergence of Shanghai as a world city by the close of the nineteenth century was built upon the establishment of a modern urban base. No aspect of Shanghai's infrastructural developments was more critically important than the creation of a public health system. A Wilderness of Marshes traces Shanghai's medical infrastructure from its conception to the implementation of a Western-style public health system and a municipal government to manage it. Kerrie MacPherson details the pioneering actions of Shanghai's capitalist, professional, and religious communities who skillfully adapted the ideas and practices gaining currency in Western science, medicine, public morality, and urban circumstances to the Asian metropolis.

Dr. Thomas Addison 1795-1860
Dr. Thomas Addison 1795-1860

Author: Margaret R. O’Leary, MD

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1491707712

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Dr. Thomas Addison (17951860): Agitating the Whole Medical World presents Dr. Addisons life story, considers his reception during his lifetime, and recognizes his profound contributions to modern medicine. Dr. Addison weathered five years of scorching criticism from peers for asserting that the adrenal glands were essential to life and that diseased adrenal glands could darken a white persons skin to mulatto hues. History validated his discoveries, which led other investigators to isolate and identify epinephrine, the adrenocortical steroids, and even vitamin B12.