Author: William Richard Ohler
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Category : Bright's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Framing Disease
Author: Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813517575
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Many diseases discussed here--endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis--came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. As these essays show, the concept of disease has also been used to frame culturally resonant behaviors: suicide, homosexuality, anorexia nervosa, chronic fatigue syndrome. Disease is also framed by public policy, as the cases of industrial disability and of forensic psychiatry demonstrate. Medical institutions, as managers of people with disease, come to have vested interests in diagnoses, as the histories of facilities to treat tuberculosis or epilepsy reveal. Ultimately, the existence and conquest of disease serves to frame a society's sense of its own "healthiness" and to give direction to social reforms.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813517575
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Many diseases discussed here--endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis--came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. As these essays show, the concept of disease has also been used to frame culturally resonant behaviors: suicide, homosexuality, anorexia nervosa, chronic fatigue syndrome. Disease is also framed by public policy, as the cases of industrial disability and of forensic psychiatry demonstrate. Medical institutions, as managers of people with disease, come to have vested interests in diagnoses, as the histories of facilities to treat tuberculosis or epilepsy reveal. Ultimately, the existence and conquest of disease serves to frame a society's sense of its own "healthiness" and to give direction to social reforms.
The Skim-milk Treatment of Diabetes and Bright's Diseases with Clinical Observations on the Symptoms and Pathology of the Affections
Author: Arthur Scott Donkin
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Category : Bright's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Bright's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Science and Practice of Medicine
Author: William Aitken
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Category : Medical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Medical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant
Author: Steven J. Peitzman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887348
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The kidneys are sophisticated organs that filter waste from the blood. A number of diseases and disorders--including diabetes and hypertension--can harm the kidneys and cause them to fail. Historian and nephrologist Steven J. Peitzman traces the medical history of kidney disease alongside the personal experience of illness. Drawing on diaries, letters, and literary narratives, as well as on scientific writings, Peitzman charts the triumphs of medical innovators like Richard Bright, Thomas Addis, and Belding Scribner as well as the stories of persons, famous and not, who have struggled with the disease. Treatments have evolved from abdominal tapping and dietetics to hemodialysis and transplantation. Medical advances have improved the well-being and prognosis of persons with failing kidneys. Yet such persons remain on an arduous journey of chronic illness. Peitzman travels with them, from diagnosis to treatment, and witnesses their remarkable ability to cope.--From publisher description.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887348
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The kidneys are sophisticated organs that filter waste from the blood. A number of diseases and disorders--including diabetes and hypertension--can harm the kidneys and cause them to fail. Historian and nephrologist Steven J. Peitzman traces the medical history of kidney disease alongside the personal experience of illness. Drawing on diaries, letters, and literary narratives, as well as on scientific writings, Peitzman charts the triumphs of medical innovators like Richard Bright, Thomas Addis, and Belding Scribner as well as the stories of persons, famous and not, who have struggled with the disease. Treatments have evolved from abdominal tapping and dietetics to hemodialysis and transplantation. Medical advances have improved the well-being and prognosis of persons with failing kidneys. Yet such persons remain on an arduous journey of chronic illness. Peitzman travels with them, from diagnosis to treatment, and witnesses their remarkable ability to cope.--From publisher description.
Mortality Statistics
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Category : Mortality
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : Mortality
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Oxford Medicine: Diseases of the digestive system, kidneys, and ductless glands
Author: Henry Asbury Christian
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Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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The Science and practice of medicine v. 2
Author: William Aitken
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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The Science and Practice of Medicine. Second Edition, Revised and Re-written
Author: Sir William AITKEN
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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