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Lecture On The Writings And Genius Of Byron (1856) is a book written by John Clark Ferguson, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the works and literary prowess of the renowned poet, Lord Byron. The book is a compilation of a lecture delivered by...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Green of the Period: Or The Unsuspected Foe in the Englishman's Home is a book written by an anonymous author in 1869. The book is a cautionary tale about the dangers of using green pigments in household items, such as wallpaper, curtains, and...

""Old Anti-Slavery Days"" is a book that documents the proceedings of a commemorative meeting held by the Danvers Historical Society on April 26, 1893, at the Town Hall in Danvers. The meeting was held to honor the anti-slavery movement and the...

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important...

Report On The Stockbridge Indians, To The Legislature (1870) is a historical document written by Charles Allen. The book provides a comprehensive report on the Stockbridge Indians, a Native American tribe that was relocated to Wisconsin from...

A History Of Dickinson County, Iowa: Together With An Account Of The Spirit Lake Massacre, And The Indian Troubles On The Northwestern Frontier is a non-fiction book written by Roderick A. Smith and published in 1902. The book provides a comprehensive...

Lecture On Political Liberalism is a book written by Wilfrid Laurier, a Canadian politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. This book is a transcription of a lecture delivered by Laurier in 1877, when he was a young lawyer and member of the...

This short book brings together novel cross-interdisciplinary investigation from both natural and social science, representing a true hybrid across disciplines examining the 'politics' and 'science' of COVID-19. Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why...

Pelvic Organ Prolapse, or POP, is a little-talked-about female health issue that half of all childbearing women will experience late in life. There are more than 300,000 surgeries for POP annually.Due to various causes such as menopause, estrogen loss,...

The Last Of The Mus-Qua-Kies And The Indian Congress, 1898 (1900) is a historical book written by Horace M. Rebok. The book tells the story of the Mus-Qua-Kies, a Native American tribe, and their struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of...

Remarks Upon Slavery And The Slave Trade: Addressed To Henry Clay (1859) is a book written by an anonymous slave holder in the United States. The book is a response to Henry Clay, a prominent politician who had recently spoken out against the institution...

Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), there remains a need to "decolonize" the...

El libro ""El Monitor De La Salud V1, 1858: De Las Familias Y De La Salubridad De Los Pueblos (1858)"" escrito por Pedro Felipe Monlau, es una obra que se enfoca en la salud p������blica y la higiene en los pueblos y familias del siglo XIX. Fue publicado...

Das Buch ""Die Heil- und Pflegeanstalten f�����r psychisch Kranke des deutschen Sprachgebietes am 1. Januar 1898"" wurde von Heinrich Laehr im Jahr 1899 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Beschreibung der psychiatrischen...

The Book of American Indians is a historical account of the indigenous peoples of North America, written by John Dunn Hunter and originally published in 1853. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the various tribes that inhabited the continent...

This book takes up the challenge of examining women's understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women's distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain...

This book interrogates how the so-called "Feminine Care" industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies. The author focuses on...

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the...

Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the...

This book explores the relationship between macro-social structure, social construction and micro-healthcare behaviors. It constructs a two-layered and two-faceted sociological analytical framework to analyze the causes of depression in China and account...

Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This...

This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave's Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time. As a collection of readings drawn from...

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s. It closely examines the changes in the systems and the symbiotic relationship between Japan's status in international relations and...

This book harnesses the theory and practice of dramatic arts for the applied use in communication education. It introduces readers to educational role-play and how to use it, arguing that complete immersion is crucial to successful learning. Educational...

Tässä selkokirjassa kerrotaan pakkokeräilystä ja siitä,miten pakkokeräilyä voidaan hoitaa.Pakkokeräily on pakottava tarve kerätä turhia tavaroita.Voit myös lukea, miten pakkokeräily on vaikuttanut joidenkin ihmisten elämään.Pakkokeräilijä on ihminen,...

This book presents a health ethnology of health literacy among vulnerable groups. In addition to a comprehensive state of research and the development of a theory-oriented health literacy research, three case studies on vulnerable minorities from Germany...

This book presents the results of an international comparative study on the causes of rule deviation in business and medical organizations. Based on document and interview analyses as well as experiments, the discrepancy between (state) regulations and...

En France, des millions de personnes ont été injectées avec des produits expérimentaux dont on ne sait rien ou si peu. Environ 200 000 d'entre elles ont déclaré des effets indésirables, dont 25 % seraient graves (ANSM, 28 août 2023), chiffres...

Creative responses to Covid 19 - no longer consumed by notions of divine retribution as in past plagues - constituted a broad cultural flowering, often within the digital world. This volume combines anthropology's understanding of ritual and society with...

This book provides the first major volume describing and examining compassionate community experiments in end of life care from a highly practical perspective. Focusing on community development initiatives and practice challenges, it offers...

The title of this profound work conveys the bold, uncertain, and often dangerous adventure in which medical professionals and their organ transplant and dialysis patients are engaged

The "Manipal Interdisciplinary Health Science and Technical Reports-2023" is a comprehensive compilation of cutting-edge research and innovative findings across the fields of health sciences and technology.

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklores, tribal folktales, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and missionary writings from India and the West to explore the history of some of the major...

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual well-being and human survival.

This vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through stories from the front lines-from protecting patients and staff from protesters' attacks to the dangers to women of restricted access to...

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

First published in 1988, the book presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness­-from perspective of patients and their families. It looks at expectations, priorities and problems of those most affected by chronic illness and...

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective interventions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines the root determinants of pandemic risk on a...

First published in 1990, Delivering Motherhood (now with a new preface) is the first comprehensive study on the history of the complex development in Canada, where control over different stages of reproduction, from conception, to delivery, to childcare,...

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima,...

This edited collection focuses on the global growth of privatisation and private sector medicine in both developed and lesser developed countries, and the impact of this on patients, health workers, managers and policy-makers. Drawing upon sociological...