The Retreat of Tuberculosis, 1850-1950
Title | The Retreat of Tuberculosis, 1850-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Barrymore Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
The first study of the personal, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis. A brilliant, wittily scarifying contribution to the history of ill-health.
Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient
Title | Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient PDF eBook |
Author | Sander Gilman |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2023-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134715617 |
This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings.
A History of Public Health
Title | A History of Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | George Rosen |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2015-04 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1421416018 |
For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.
Contagious Communities
Title | Contagious Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Roberta Bivins |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2015-09-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191038415 |
It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5 July, the Appointed Day when the nation's new National Health Service would first open its doors. The relationship between immigration and the NHS rapidly attained - and has enduringly retained - notable political and cultural significance. Both the Appointed Day and the post-war arrival of colonial and Commonwealth immigrants heralded transformative change. Together, they reshaped daily life in Britain and notions of 'Britishness' alike. Yet the reciprocal impacts of post-war immigration and medicine in post-war Britain have yet to be explored. Contagious Communities casts new light on a period which is beginning to attract significant historical interest. Roberta Bivins draws attention to the importance - but also the limitations - of medical knowledge, approaches, and professionals in mediating post-war British responses to race, ethnicity, and the emergence of new and distinctive ethnic communities. By presenting a wealth of newly available or previously ignored archival evidence, she interrogates and re-balances the political history of Britain's response to New Commonwealth immigration. Contagious Communities uses a set of linked case-studies to map the persistence of 'race' in British culture and medicine alike; the limits of belonging in a multi-ethnic welfare state; and the emergence of new and resolutely 'unimagined' communities of patients, researchers, clinicians, policy-makers, and citizens within the medical state and its global contact zones.
'Captain of all these men of death'
Title | 'Captain of all these men of death' PDF eBook |
Author | Greta Jones |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-08-22 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 900433341X |
Tuberculosis mortality in the United States and in Britain was declining in the late nineteenth century but rising in Ireland. Why Ireland’s pattern of tuberculosis mortality was different is the subject of this book.
Health Psychology
Title | Health Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth D. Whitaker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1237 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1317347897 |
This reader looks at both the biological and cultural aspects of health and healing within a comparative framework. Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective provides both fascinating comparative ethnographic detail and a theoretical framework for organizing and interpreting information about health. While there are many health-related fields represented in this book, its core discipline is medical anthropology and its main focus is the comparative approach. Cross-cultural comparison gives anthropological analysis breadth while the evolutionary time scale gives it depth. These two features have always been fundamental to anthropology and continue to distinguish it among the social sciences. A third feature is the in-depth knowledge of culture produced by anthropological methods such as participant-observation, involving long-term presence in and research among a study population. For medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, nursing courses.
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making
Title | Public Health and Municipal Policy Making PDF eBook |
Author | Marjaana Niemi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131707369X |
Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an active interest in the formulation of these policies. In this book Marjaana Niemi examines the impact of different political aims and pressures on 'scientific' health policies through the analysis of public health programmes in two case studies, one in Birmingham and the other in Gothenburg. By examining early twentieth-century campaigns concerned with infant welfare and the prevention of tuberculosis, the book provides illuminating insights into the relationship between public health and the regulation of urban life. Not only does the book analyse the processes whereby different political aims became embedded in these 'apolitical' health campaigns, but it also highlights the important part that the campaigns played in urban politics and governance. The political aims which public health campaigns advanced are explored by comparing health policies in Britain and Sweden, where officials were part of one public health community, enjoying close links, attending the same conferences and contributing to the same journals. The problems they dealt with were often similar and in both countries health authorities claimed scientific grounds for their programmes. Yet the policies they pursued were often strikingly different. Through examination of two different national approaches, the book does justice to the full complexity of the policy-making process and illuminates the wide range of factors that affected municipal policies.