Author: Allan Ingram
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526166836
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.
Myth and (mis)information
Author: Allan Ingram
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526166836
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526166836
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.
Punch
Author: Henry Mayhew
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
Author: Arthur Allen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324036354
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
"A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book Review Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have often accompanied vaccination—from the divisive introduction of smallpox inoculation in colonial Boston to the 9,000 lawsuits recently filed by parents convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism. With narrative grace and investigative journalism, Arthur Allen reveals a history illuminated by hope and shrouded by controversy, and he sheds new light on changing notions of health, risk, and the common good.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324036354
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
"A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book Review Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have often accompanied vaccination—from the divisive introduction of smallpox inoculation in colonial Boston to the 9,000 lawsuits recently filed by parents convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism. With narrative grace and investigative journalism, Arthur Allen reveals a history illuminated by hope and shrouded by controversy, and he sheds new light on changing notions of health, risk, and the common good.
The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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... Finding List of English Prose Fiction
Author: Seattle Public Library
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Index Catalogue of the Pollokshields District Library
Author: Pollokshields District Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Maryland Medical Journal
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Catalogue of Books in the Astley Bridge Branch Lending Library
Author: Bolton (England). Public Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Dublin Journal of Medical Science
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The Philadelphia Medical Journal
Author: George Milbry Gould
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
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