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  • Lovie

    The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship

    par Lisa Yarger ...
    Collections series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was about giving life, was conspicuously marked by loss, including the untimely death of her husband ... En savoir plus

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  • The Black Death

    par Francis Gasquet ...
    The story of the Great Pestilence of 1348 - 9 has never been fully told. In fact, until comparatively recent times, little attention was paid to an event which, nevertheless, whether viewed in the magnitude of the catastrophe, or in regard to its far-reaching results, is certainly one of the most important in the history of our country... ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Not Your Ordinary Doctor

    par Jim Leavesley ...
    Throughout history, many doctors have worked outside the occupation for which they were originally trained. Not Your Ordinary Doctor reveals sixty such medical truants who found fame in fields other than medicine.Meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes; cringe as Stalin tortures each of his eight doctors; follow John Keats, who abandons medicine to pursue his literary career. ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Diagnosing Giants

    Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

    par Philip A. Mackowiak ...
    Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

  • Those Who Work, Those Who Don't

    Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America

    par Jennifer Sherman ...
    When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic understanding of poor rural Americans, persuasively arguing that the growing cultural ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    par Peter Piot ...
    Traduit par Laurence Garey ...
    Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Name of the Nearest River

    Stories

    par Alex Taylor ...
    Short stories set in Kentucky from a prize-winning author who “writes with generosity and understanding of rural and small town life” (Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark).Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, the atmosphere of these stories is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn, revealing the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Catching Breath

    The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis

    par Miss Kathryn Lougheed ...
    Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history. With more than a million victims every year – more than any other disease, including malaria – and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising considering how long it's had to hone its ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Hour of Eugenics"

    Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

    par Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.―American ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Between Flesh and Steel

    A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan

    par Richard A. Gabriel ...
    Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the historical development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to modern times.Military historian Richard A. Gabriel focuses on three key elements: the modifications in warfare and weapons ... En savoir plus

    $48.03 CAD

  • Authorized to Heal

    Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930

    par Sandra Lee Barney ...
    In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen, ladies' auxiliaries, and other female constituencies in bringing modern medicine to the mountains, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Black Death

    par Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker ...
    That Omnipotence which has called the world with all its living creatures into one animated being, especially reveals Himself in the desolation of great pestilences. The powers of creation come into violent collision; the sultry dryness of the atmosphere; the subterraneous thunders; the mist of overflowing waters, are the harbingers of destruction. Nature is not satisfied with the ordinary ... En savoir plus

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