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21. | | Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Sociology | Ethics | Medicine | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Healing the masses: Cuban health politics at home and abroadAuthor: Feinsilver, Julie Margot Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Medicine | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperat . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in BoliviaAuthor: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Medical Anthropology | MedicinePublisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: The blood of strangers: stories from emergency medicineAuthor: Huyler, Frank 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Medicine | American Literature | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments - the intricacy of suturin . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | MedicinePublisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Public health law: power, duty, restraintAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Should I be tested for cancer?: maybe not and here's whyAuthor: Welch, H. Gilbert Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | DiseasePublisher's Description: Getting tested to detect cancer early is one of the best ways to stay healthy - or is it? In this lively, carefully researched book, a nationally recognized expert on early cancer detection challenges one of medicine's most widely accepted beliefs: that the best defense against cancer is to always t . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: What price better health?: hazards of the research imperativeAuthor: Callahan, Daniel 1930- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Philosophy | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice. Medical . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: a disease, a cause, and a cureAuthor: Carpenter, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John) 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | MedicinePublisher's Description: In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific conceptsAuthor: Clarke, Edwin Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | EthicsPublisher's Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery. Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Promoting human wellness: new frontiers for research, practice, and policy Author: Jamner, Margaret Schneider Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Medicine | Public Policy | Anthropology | Aging | EducationPublisher's Description: This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and disease prevention. Based on award-winning lectures by University of California faculty on nine campuses as part of the Wellness Lectures Program jointly . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Big doctoring in America: profiles in primary care Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | SociologyPublisher's Description: The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Intensive care: a doctor's journalAuthor: Murray, John F. (John Frederic) 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Medicine | AgingPublisher's Description: Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the h . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Biology | MedicinePublisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Mental ills and bodily cures: psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth centuryAuthor: Braslow, Joel T 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Psychiatry | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | PsychologyPublisher's Description: Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, J . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: The culture of painAuthor: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Literature | HistorySimilar Items | 38. | | Title: When walking fails: mobility problems of adults with chronic conditionsAuthor: Iezzoni, Lisa I Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Sociology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults who . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | | 40. | | Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Law | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more]Similar Items |
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