Author: William HillaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases, in the Island of Barbados
Author: William HillaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of Animal IndustryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Difference and Disease
Author: Suman SethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Select Reviews of Literature
Author: Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines
Author: Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines
Author: Enos BronsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Vitamin A Story
Author: Richard D. SembaPublisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 3318021881
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Intriguing reading for specialists and the interested public alike This book shows how vitamin A deficiency -- before the vitamin was known to scientists -- affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author's presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
Index-catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology
Author: Sea and Land
Author: Philip D. MorganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197555454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.