Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: The Edinburgh City Hospital
Author: J. A. GrayPublisher: John Donald
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
From medieval leper houses and plague pits to AIDS, this book charts the history of infectious diseases in Edinburgh, and looks specifically at the Colinton Mains Farm City Hospital for infectious disease, opened by King Edward VII in 1903.
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Author: Megan CoyerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474405614
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.
Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Author: Anne WhiteheadPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474400051
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.
The Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: Illness as Many Narratives
Author: Bolaki Stella BolakiPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474402437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western world. In what ways can they be seen to have aesthetic, ethical and political value? What do they reveal about experiences of illness, the relationship between the body and identity and the role of the arts in bearing witness to illness for people who are ill and those connected to them? How can they influence medicine, the arts and shape public understandings of health and illness? These questions and more are explored in Illness as Many Narratives, which contains readings of a rich array of representations of illness from the 1980s to the present. A wide range of arts and media are considered such as life writing, photography, performance, film, theatre, artists' books and animation. The individual chapters deploy multidisciplinary critical frameworks and discuss physical and mental illness. Through reading this book you will gain an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Limits to Medicine
Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars
ISBN: 9780714529936
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.