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Category : Medicine, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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The Cottage Physician for Individual and Family Use
Author: The Cottage Physician
Author: An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform: A-L
Author: Christopher HoolihanPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580460989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with "popular medicine" in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction [from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby], venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education. These books, covering areas largely ignored by the medical profession, made important contributions to the health of the American public, and the collection is a vital piece of medical history. The collector is Edward C. Atwater, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and the History of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School. Christopher Hoolihan is History of Medicine Librarian at the University of Rochester Medical School's Edward G. Miner LIbrary.
The Cottage Physician, and Family Adviser; Or, Every Man His Own Doctor and Herbalist ... Edited by W. Buchan and the Members of a Private Medical Society. Third Edition
Author: William BUCHAN (M.D.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America
Author: Janet Farrell BrodiePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801484339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling the size of their families from the 1830s to the 1890s when a puritan backlash made most of it illegal. Emphasizes the importance of two shadowy networks, medical practitioners known as Thomsonians and water-curists, and iconoclastic freethinkers.
The House Book ; Or, Family Chronicle of Useful Knowledge, and Cottage Physician
Author: William ScottPublisher:
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Drugs in institutions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
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Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Drugs in Institutions: Formerly institutionalized persons and physicians
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
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Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Sex Ed, Segregated
Author: Courtney Q. ShahPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In Sex Ed, Segregated, Courtney Shah examines the Progressive Era sex education movement, which presented the possibility of helping people understand their own health and sexuality, but which most often divided audiences along rigid lines of race, class, and gender. Reformers' assumptions about their audience's place in the political hierarchy played a crucial role in the development of a mainstream sex education movement by the 1920s. Reformers and instructors taught middle-class youth, African-Americans, and World War I soldiers different stories, for different reasons. Shah's examination of "character-building" organizations like the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) reveals how the white, middle-class ideal reflected cultural assumptions about sexuality and formed an aspirational model for upward mobility to those not in the privileged group, such as immigrant or working class youth. In addition, as Shah argues, the battle over policing young women's sexual behavior during World War I pitted middle-class women against their working-class counterparts. Sex Ed, Segregated demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease. Courtney Shah is an instructor at Lower Columbia College, Washington.
Proper Doctoring
Author: David MendelPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017643X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
“People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone. In crisp, clear prose, he introduces readers to the craft of medicine and shows how to practice it. Discussing matters ranging from the most basic—how doctors should dress and how they should speak to patients—to the taking of medical histories, the etiquette of examinations, and the difficulties of diagnosis, Mendel moves on to consider how the doctor can best serve patients who suffer from prolonged illness or face death. Throughout he keeps in sight the fundamental moral fact that the relationship between doctor and patient is a human one before it is a professional one. As he writes with characteristic concision, “The trained and experienced doctor puts himself, or his nearest and dearest, in the patient’s position, and asks himself what he would do if he were advising himself or his family. No other advice is acceptable; no other is justifiable.” Proper Doctoring is a book that is admirably direct, as well as wise, witty, deeply humane, and, frankly, indispensable.