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Daughters of Haritiby Geoffrey Samuel; Santi Rozario
Routledge 2002; US$ 143.00Is Western medical technology necessarily a good thing, or can it be dangerous? This book investigates its impact on midwives, healers and mothers giving birth in India today. more...
Demography and Nutritionby Susan Scott; Christopher J. Duncan
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 239.99This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famines, fertility and pregnancy, infancy and infant mortality, ageing, infectious diseases, and population dynamics. The authors, both well known internationally... more...
The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Bacterial Waterborne Diseasesby James N. Parker; Philip M. Parker
ICON Group International Inc. 2002; US$ 28.95This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to bacterial waterborne diseases (also Bacterial diarrhea; Food poisoning - Campylobacter enteritis; Infectious diarrhea - Campylobacter enteritis; Salmonellosis; Shigella gastroenteritis; Shigellosis), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected... more...
Human Frontiers, Environments and Diseaseby Tony McMichael
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 51.00This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, and its changing survival patterns, from several million years ago when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world. more...
Neurology Of The Artsby F. Clifford Rose
World Scientific 2004; US$ 114.40This book is the first attempt to provide a basis for the interaction of the brain and nervous system with painting, music and literature. The introduction deals with the problems of creativity and which parts of the brain are involved. Then an overview of art presents the multiple facets, such as anatomy, and the myths appearing in ancient descriptions of conditions such as polio and migraine. The neurological basis of painters like Goya and van Gogh is analysed. Other chapters in the section on art cover da Vinci's mechanics and the portrayal of epilepsy. The section on music concerns the parts of the brain linked to perception and memory, as well as people who cannot appreciate music, and the effect of music on intelligence and learning... more...
Pilgrims in Medicine - Conscience, Legalism and Human Rightsby Thomas Alured Faunce
BRILL 2004; US$ 257.00This arrestingly novel work develops a normative synthesis of medical humanities, virtue ethics, medical ethics, health law and human rights. It presents an ambitious, complex and coherent argument for the reconceptualisation of the doctor-patient relationship and its regulation utilising approaches often thought of as being separate, if not opposed (virtue-based ethics and universal human rights). The case is argued gracefully, with moderation, but also with respect for opposing positions. more...
The Medical Science of House, M.D.by Andrew Holtz
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99The facts behind the addictive medical drama starring Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie. Week after week, House, M.D. has held viewers' attention with brilliant cast performances and intriguing diagnostic mysteries often solved with daring treatments. But how much of the medical detail is real and how much is fabricated? In The Medical Science of House, M.D ., Andrew Holtz, a well-known medical journalist, reveals how medical detectives work-how they follow symptoms to their source. He examines each case in detail and provides answers to such questions as: - How can a teenager adopted at birth nearly die because his biological mother didn't get a vaccine? - How can a husband's faith in his wife's fidelity determine whether radical treatment... more...
Spuren der Avantgardeby Helmar Schramm; Ludger Schwarte; Jan Lazardzig
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 211.00The book series Theatrum Scientiarum compiles original studies at the interface of philosophy, the history of science, cultural studies and theatre studies. Now the 4th volume is published, Traces of the Avant-garde: Theatrum machinarum, focusing on the origins of the machine paradigm and its cultural establishment in the 17th century from the perspective of the avant-garde obsession with machinery. The aesthetic, epistemological and political factors established with this paradigm are analysed from the perspective of the artistic and artful questioning of the mechanical in the 20th and 21st centuries. more...
Medizinische Schreibweisenby Nicolas Pethes; Sandra Richter
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 101.00The volume examines the interrelationships between the history of medicine and literature from the 17th until the 19th centuries. The papers in the volume analyse these interrelationships using the styles of medical and literary texts, which show how the dimensions of knowledge and of representation determine each other for example in the case of narrative structures in medical case histories or a diagnostic narrative stance in a novel. more...
Funktionen des Erlebensby Matthias Jung; Jan-Christoph Heilinger
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 108.00Humans are being that not only lead their lives but also experience them. Why? This volume examines this question from the perspective of multiple disciplines in the natural and social sciences. The contributions investigate the ways in which personal feeling and individual experience are central components in our dealings with our social and physical environment. more...









