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41. | | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | MedicinePublisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. | | 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 | 43. | | Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Economics and Business | History and Philosophy of Science | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more]Similar Items | 44. | | Title: Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark: reconstructing life after brain injuryAuthor: Johansen, Ruthann Knechel 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Autobiographies and Biographies | Medical Anthropology | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, . . . [more]Similar Items | 45. | | Title: Lost lullabyAuthor: Alecson, Deborah Golden 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Medicine | Ethics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Lost Lullaby makes one think the unthinkable: how a loving parent can pray for the death of her child. It is Deborah Alecson's story of her daughter, Andrea, who was born after a full-term, uneventful pregnancy, weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces, perfectly formed and exquisitely featured. But an inexplica . . . [more]Similar Items | 46. | | Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. | | Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more]Similar Items | 48. | | 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 | 49. | | 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 | 50. | | Title: No safe place: toxic waste, leukemia, and community actionAuthor: Brown, Phil Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Ecology | Medicine | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters - these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place , sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists w . . . [more]Similar Items | 51. | | Title: Old, alone, and neglected: care of the aged in the United States and Scotland Author: Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Aging | Medical Anthropology | MedicinePublisher's Description: As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland.Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the inst . . . [more]Similar Items | 52. | | Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Medicine | History | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more]Similar Items | 53. | | Title: Prescription for profit: how doctors defraud MedicaidAuthor: Jesilow, Paul 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Sociology | Medicine | Social Problems | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: In this explosive exposé of our health care system, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis uncover the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state, and private officials and extensive investigation of case files, they tell the stories of doctors who pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 54. | | 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 | 55. | | 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 | 56. | | Title: Public health law and ethics: a readerAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Health CarePublisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more]Similar Items | 57. | | Title: Reproducing empire: race, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto RicoAuthor: Briggs, Laura 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | Medicine | United States History | Women's Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, fe . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. | | Title: Second sight Author: Hine, Robert V 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | MedicinePublisher's Description: He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. | | Title: Sentinel for health: a history of the Centers for Disease ControlAuthor: Etheridge, Elizabeth W Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | MedicinePublisher's Description: In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit during World War II through the mid-1980s . The eradication of smallpox, the struggle to identify an effective polio vaccine, the unraveling of the secret . . . [more]Similar Items | 60. | | 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 |
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