Author: Alexander Morison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases
Author: Alexander Morison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Pidgin to Da Max
Author: Douglas Simonson
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573062503
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
An alphabetical guide to words and phrases in Hawaiian Pidgin English, with comic strips illustrating usage.
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573062503
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
An alphabetical guide to words and phrases in Hawaiian Pidgin English, with comic strips illustrating usage.
Women and Madness
Author: Phyllis Chesler
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 164160039X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 164160039X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Author: George Milbry Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The Emperor of All Maladies
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439170916
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439170916
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
A Diagnostic Analysis of the Casebooks of Ticehurst House Asylum, 1845-1890
Author: Trevor H. Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429863
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Detailed review of the clinical features of a complete cohort of patients admitted to the Ticehurst House asylum between 1845 and 1890.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429863
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Detailed review of the clinical features of a complete cohort of patients admitted to the Ticehurst House asylum between 1845 and 1890.
The Female Malady
Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This incisive study explores how cultural ideas about proper feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of madness in women as it traces trends in the psychiatric care of women in England from 1830-1980.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This incisive study explores how cultural ideas about proper feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of madness in women as it traces trends in the psychiatric care of women in England from 1830-1980.
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac Disraeli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Portuguese Columbus
Author: Maxcarenhas Barreto
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349219940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349219940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
‘The Cruel Madness of Love’
Author: Gayle Davis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206317
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Against a backdrop of contemporary social and sexual concerns, and potent fears surrounding the moral and physical ‘degeneration’ of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century society, ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’ explores a critical period in the developing relationship between syphilis and insanity. General paralysis of the insane (GPI), the most commonly diagnosed of the neurosyphilitic disorders, has been devastating both in terms of its severity and incidence. Using the rich laboratory and asylum records of lowland Scotland as a case study, Gayle Davis examines the evolution of GPI as a disease category from a variety of perspectives: social, medical, and pathological. Through exploring case notes and the impact of new diagnostic techniques and therapies, such as the Wassermann Test and Malarial Therapy, the reader gains a unique insight into both patients and practitioners. Significant insights are gained into the socio–sexual background and medical experience of patients, as well as the clinical ideas and judgmental behaviour of the practitioners confronting this disease. ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’ will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore the historical relationship between sexuality, morality and disease.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206317
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Against a backdrop of contemporary social and sexual concerns, and potent fears surrounding the moral and physical ‘degeneration’ of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century society, ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’ explores a critical period in the developing relationship between syphilis and insanity. General paralysis of the insane (GPI), the most commonly diagnosed of the neurosyphilitic disorders, has been devastating both in terms of its severity and incidence. Using the rich laboratory and asylum records of lowland Scotland as a case study, Gayle Davis examines the evolution of GPI as a disease category from a variety of perspectives: social, medical, and pathological. Through exploring case notes and the impact of new diagnostic techniques and therapies, such as the Wassermann Test and Malarial Therapy, the reader gains a unique insight into both patients and practitioners. Significant insights are gained into the socio–sexual background and medical experience of patients, as well as the clinical ideas and judgmental behaviour of the practitioners confronting this disease. ‘The Cruel Madness of Love’ will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore the historical relationship between sexuality, morality and disease.