Chapter 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early mod…

"Very little is known about early modern approaches to convalescence and the author investigates the measures were taken by physicians and laypeople to restore health after illness. Drawing on medical texts, regimens, letters, and diaries, this chapter shows that the treatment of the convalescent differed both from the care of the sick and the healthy. It shows the vital place of the non-natura…

Pioneer work for women

A Co-operative Proposal {1875) ; Rescue Work in Relation to Prostitution and Disease (1881) ; Christian Socialism (1882) ; Wrong and Right Methods (1883) ; Criticism of Gronlund's Co-operative Commonwealth of Women (1887) ; Neo-Malthusianism (1888) ; Prevention of Rabies (1891) ; Medical Responsibility (1897) ; The Present Position of the State Regulation of Vice in British India. See also Medi…

Cornell's lives of clergymen, physicians and eminent business men of the nine…

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Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise

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Cognitive Science in Medicine: Biomedical Modeling

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Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy

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Tornado of life :constraints and creativity in the ER

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Howard Hiatt :an extraordinary mentor who transformed health with science and…

Includes index.The seven-decade career of Howard Hiatt, a pioneer in public health, advocate for global health and health equity, a mentor to generations of healthcare leaders. Howard Hiatt--physician, scientist, advocate for global health, and mentor to generations of healthcare leaders--has spent much of his seven-decade career being ahead of his time. His innovative ideas as head of Harvard'…

Voices in the Band : A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care…

"I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and how to avoid getting it, but we didn't know how to treat it or how to prevent our patients' seemingly inevitable progression toward death. The stigma that surrounded AIDS patients from the very beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s continued to be harsh and isolating. People looked askance …