Author: Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Military Surgeon
Author: University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical economics
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Facts and Phagocytes
Author: Burr FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrochloric acid
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
American Armamentarium Chirurgicum
Author: George Tiemann & CoPublisher: Norman Publishing
ISBN: 9780930405236
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Instrumente / Katalog.
Southern Medical Journal
Author: Maine Medical Journal
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Includes an official roster in one issue per year.
Diseases of the Chest
Author: In Search of Sexual Health
Author: Elliott BowenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421438577
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
How did beliefs about syphilis shape the kinds of treatment people with this disease received? The story of how a town in the Ozark hinterlands played a key role in determining standards of medical care around syphilis. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the central Arkansas city of Hot Springs enjoyed a reputation as one of the United States' premier health resorts. Throughout this period, the vast majority of Americans who traveled there did so because they had (or thought they had) syphilis—a disease whose incidence was said to be dramatically on the rise all across the country. Boasting an impressive medical infrastructure that included private clinics, a military hospital, and a venereal disease clinic operated by the United States Public Health Service, Hot Springs extended a variety of treatment options. Until the antibiotic revolution of the 1940s, Hot Springs occupied a central position in the country's struggle with sexually transmitted disease. Drawing upon health-seekers' firsthand accounts, clinical case files, and the writings of the city's privately practicing specialists, In Search of Sexual Health examines the era's "venereal peril" from the standpoint of medical practice. How, Elliott Bowen asks, did people with VD understand their illnesses, and what therapeutic strategies did they employ? Highlighting the unique role that resident doctors, visiting patients, and local residents played in shaping Hot Springs' response to syphilis, Bowen argues that syphilis's status as a stigmatized disease of "others" (namely prostitutes, immigrants, and African Americans) had a direct impact on the kinds of treatment patients received, and translated into very different outcomes for the city's diverse clientele—which included men as well as women, blacks as well as whites, and the poor as well as the rich. Whereas much of the existing scholarship on the history of sexually transmitted diseases privileges the actions of medical elites and federal authorities, this study reveals Hot Springs, a remote and fairly obscure town, as a local node with a significant national impact on American medicine and public health. Providing a richer, more complex understanding of a critical chapter in the history of sexually transmitted diseases, In Search of Sexual Health will prove valuable to historians of medicine, public health, and the environment, in addition to scholars of race, gender, sexuality.
Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South
Author: Todd L. SavittPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book looks at disease entities (yellow fever, hookworm, pellagra) especially associated with the American South and wrestles with the relation of diseases to an issue of perennial concern to southern historians, that of southern distinctiveness.
Between Flesh and Steel
Author: Richard A. GabrielPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612344208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the historical development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to modern times. Military historian Richard A. Gabriel focuses on three key elements: the modifications in warfare and weapons whose increased killing power radically changed the medical challenges that battle surgeons faced in dealing with casualties, advancements in medical techniques that increased the effectiveness of military medical care, and changes that finally brought about the establishment of military medical care systems in modern times. Other topics include the rise of the military surgeon, the invention of anesthesia, and the emergence of such critical disciplines as military psychiatry and bacteriology. The approach is chronological—century by century and war by war, including Iraq and Afghanistan—and cross-cultural in that it examines developments in all of the major armies of the West: British, French, Russian, German, and American. Between Flesh and Steel is the most comprehensive book on the market about the evolution of modern military medicine.