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The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture

The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture


Paperback, 400 pages, release 1989-10-01
James T. Patterson
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674216261

Cancer is that loathsome beast, which seized upon the breast, drove its long claws into the surrounding tissues, derived its sustenance by sucking out the juices of its victims and never even relaxed…

Terminology of medicine: basic atlas of sectional anatomy

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American


Paperback, 347 pages, release 2005-04-01
Carolyn de la Pena
NYU Press
ISBN: 081471983X

History Culture
View the Table of Contents Read the Preface Covers its subject well, provides useful context and makes lively reading for anyone interested in the history of technology, the social context of electric…

Review: They will never look at your StairMaster in the completely same manner
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena has written a masterly book. In investigating in the manners Americans have used her bodies to understand new technologies, she throws light on the origins of ours…

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The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American


Hardcover, 347 pages, release 2003-05-01
Carolyn de la Pena
NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719538

History Culture Series
Critique of the continuing obsession with achieving physical perfection. David E. Nye, author of Electrifying America and America as Second Creation The Body Electric is the so far missing puzzle piec…

Review: They will never look at your StairMaster in the completely same manner
…While they connected her results with social and cultural movements which take place at the same time, people drank radium water or experimented with electric straps, she strengthens them…

Keyterms list: modern methodologies

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870


Paperback, 288 pages, release 1999-05-15
Katherine Ott
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674299116

Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow an…

Review: Historical perspectives on tuberculosis and health service
Ott interweaves the changing understanding and the treatment of the tuberculosis with his natural companion, health service. There is a variety of stories here this of researchers like…

Associated words: hippocratic times to modern

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870


Hardcover, 288 pages, release 1996-11-01
Katherine Ott
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674299108

…Consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality and gentility on the sufferer, to the post industrial world of today, in which tuberculo…

Review: Historical perspectives on tuberculosis and health service
…At the middle of the 19th century to the present. The book concentrates upon the medical or scientific aspects of the illness, however, not (although they are mentioned), but rather the point of Ott seems…


Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology and Medicine...

Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s


Paperback, 280 pages, release 1996-04-30
Hamilton Cravens
University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817307931

History

Review: The bonds of the science and society
This pioneer's collection of articles everybody speak in a remarkably uniform manner with the question of that what is the relations between science and society, that the technical one showing…

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Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture

Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture


Hardcover, 245 pages, release 1996-06
Rima D. Apple
Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813522773

Health Medicine Society

Keywords: vitamins in human nutrition, springhouse nurses drug guide, pharmaceutical industries, human anatomy, film, criticism, video

The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children

The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children


Hardcover, 272 pages, release 2003-09-23
Robert Shaw
Harper
ISBN: 0060011831

Take a good look around you: You can't go into stores or restaurants without seeing joyless children screaming, sulking, resisting their parents, or pulling things off shelves. Parents, in turn, nag,…

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I read recently this book and thought that it eased and authorised. I could fill a library with the books which I have bought about babies and educating from children, but this is of that…

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The Physician's Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing

The Physician's Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing


Paperback, 240 pages, release 1982-12
Barbara Melosh
Temple University Press
ISBN: 0877222908

This book recasts nursing history and places it in the context of women's history, labor history, medical history and sociology. Removed from the limited framework of professionalization, nursing hist…

Alternative word list: american nurses association

AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic

AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic


Paperback, 242 pages, release 2005-06-30
Thomas L. Long
State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791461688

Suny Series in Sociology Culture

The most popular terms: apocalyptic literature, nurses med deck, lesbian, acquired immunodeficiency synd, history, disease, social science, sociology, social aspects, psychology


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