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Category : Tuberculosis
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Summer 1986 Issue TB Notes
Author: TB Notes
Author: Fall 1986 Issue "TB Notes."
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Heredity and Infection
Author: Jean-Paul GaudilliérePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135138613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the last century. Two scientific revolutions - the bacteriological revolution of the 1890s and the genetic revolution at the start of the twentieth century - acted as the catalysts of major change in our understanding of the causes of illness. As well as being great scientific achievements, these were social and political watersheds that reconfigured the medical and administrative means of intervention. By establishing a clear distinction between transmission by infection and genetic transmission, this shift was instrumental in separating hygiene from eugenism. The authors argue that the popular perception of such a sharp divide stabilized only after 1945 when the use of antibiotics to end epidemics became commonplace. For health professionals the separation has never become an absolute one, and the book examines the various blends of heredity and infection that have preoccupied biology, medicine and the social sciences. Heredity and Infection recontructs the changing epidemiology of such historically important pathologies as tuberculosis , cancer and AIDS. In doing so, it demonstrates the role of experimental models, medical practices and cultural images in the making of contemporary biochemical knowledge.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Author: Robert KanigelPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476763496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
Bulletin of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Author: Pharmacracy
Author: Thomas SzaszPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815607632
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into "treatments," replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls "pharmacracy." He warns that the creeping substitution of democracy for pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.
Marxism in the United States
Author: Paul BuhlePublisher: Vereso
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description