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Disease and Medicine in World History
Author | : Sheldon Watts |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2005-07-05 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781134470570 |
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Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many cultures. Sheldon Watts shows that many medical practices in the past were shaped as much by philosophers and metaphysicians as by university-trained doctors and other practitioners. Subjects covered include: Pharaonic Egypt and the pre-conquest New World the evolution of medical systems in the Middle East health and healing on the Indian subcontinent medicine and disease in China the globalization of disease in the modern world the birth and evolution of modern scientific medicine. This volume is a landmark contribution to the field of world history. It covers the principal medical systems known in the world, based on extensive original research. Watts raises questions about globalization in medicine and the potential impact of infectious diseases in the present day.
Disease and Medicine in World History
Author | : Sheldon J. Watts |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Diseases |
ISBN | : 0415278163 |
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Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, Sheldon Watts presents this concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world.
Disease and Medicine in World History
Author | : Sheldon J. Watts |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Diseases |
ISBN | : 0415278171 |
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Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, Sheldon Watts presents this concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world.
History of Medicine Third Edition
Author | : Jacalyn Duffin |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : 9781487509170 |
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The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship and new events in major fields of medical endeavor.
Disease and History
Author | : Frederick Fox Cartwright,Michael Denis Biddiss |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : IND:30000076327810 |
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Describes the effects of disease on the course of history.
A History of Disease in Ancient Times
Author | : Philip Norrie |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2016-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783319289373 |
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This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival either avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. The book will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in the chain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient world and that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently the case.
The Deadly Truth
Author | : Gerald N. Grob |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674037944 |
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The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn creates novel risks to human health and life. We conquer particular diseases, but others always arise in their stead. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease. Diseases ranging from malaria to cancer have shaped the social landscape--sometimes through brief, furious outbreaks, and at other times through gradual occurrence, control, and recurrence. Grob integrates statistical data with particular peoples and places while giving us the larger patterns of the ebb and flow of disease over centuries. Throughout, we see how much of our history, culture, and nation-building was determined--in ways we often don't realize--by the environment and the diseases it fostered. The way in which we live has shaped, and will continue to shape, the diseases from which we get sick and die. By accepting the presence of disease and understanding the way in which it has physically interacted with people and places in past eras, Grob illuminates the extraordinarily complex forces that shape our morbidity and mortality patterns and provides a realistic appreciation of the individual, social, environmental, and biological determinants of human health.
The Future of Public Health
Author | : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health,Division of Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988-01-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780309581905 |
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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.