New York Medical Journal
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 762
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Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893
Author: Long Island Historical Society. Library
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 826
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Joint Catalogue of the Periodicals, Publications and Transactions of Societies, and Other Books Published at Intervals to be Found in the Various Libraries of the City of Toronto
Author: James BAIN (Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library, and LANGTON (Hugh Hornby))
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-02-01
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 0309133181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Tarahumara
Author: Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0816536619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInhabiting the Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Chihuahua in Mexico, the Tarahumara (or Rarámuri) are known in their language as the "foot runners" due to the way in which they must navigate their rugged terrain. This book offers an accessible ethnography of their history, customs, and current life, accompanied by photographs that offer striking images of these gentle people. The subtitle of the book derives from the Tarahumara's belief that the soul works at night while the body sleeps and that during this "day of the moon" both the spirits of the dead and the souls of the living move about in their mysterious ways. As the authors observe, the fact that "so many men, women, and children persist in distinctive, centuries-old cultural traditions in spite of their nearness to all the complexities and attractions of modern industrial society is an importatn part of the story." Their book tells that story and brings readers closer to understanding the Tarahumara world and way of life.
The Return of the White Plague
Author: Matthew Gandy
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003-10-17
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781859846698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis is a story of medical failure. This collection provides an international survey of current thought on the spread and control of tuberculosis, covering historical, social, political, and medical aspects.
Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Author: Stanley Joel Reiser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521282239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries.
List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssues for 1977-1979 include also Special List journals being indexed in cooperation with other institutions. Citations from these journals appear in other MEDLARS bibliographies and in MEDLING, but not in Index medicus.
Prosthetic Bodies
Author: I. van der Ploeg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9401598479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory. The double focus on IVF and related techniques, and fetal treatment and surgery, enables the identification of debatable tendencies within today's reproductive medicine: the translation of ever more medical problems basically unrelated to women's own reproductive health - and, in the case of fetal diagnosis and treatment, sometimes formerly even unrelated to reproduction as such - into medical indications for invasive, often highly experimental interventions in women's bodies. The analyses show how, through the operations and workings of reproductive technologies themselves, as well as a variety of discursive mechanisms within scientific language, today's recasting of men's fertility problems and children's congenital anomalies as women's reproductive problems comes to appear inevitable. The book challenges the ability of traditional forms of medical ethics and law to adequately identify this incremental process. The careful analyses and arguments in Prosthetic Bodies will be relevant to students of science and technology, gender studies, philosophy, medical ethics, and law, and others interested in the cultural, ethical, and political ramifications of contemporary reproductive technologies.
