Western Diseases

Western Diseases
Author: Norman J. Temple
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1468481363

Sir Richard Doll, FRS, FRCP ICRF Cancer Research Studies Unit Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK The twentieth century has seen few changes more remarkable than the improvement in health that has occurred nearly everywhere, most spectacularly in the economically developed countries. In these countries improved nutrition, better housing, the control ofinfection, smaller family sizes, and higher standards of education have brought about a situation in which more than 97% of all liveborn children can expect to survive the first half ofthe three score years and ten that formerly was regarded as the allotted span oflife. From then on, however, the position is less satisfactory. Some improvement has occurred; but the proportion of survivors who die prematurely, that is under 70 years of age, varies from 25% to over 50% in men and from 13% to 28% in women, the extremes in both sexes being recorded, respectively, in Japan and Hungary. Most of these deaths under 70 years of age must now be called premature, even in Japan. For most of them are not the result of any inevitable aging process, but instead are the consequences of diseases (or types of trauma) that have lower-often much lower-age-specific incidence rates in many of the least developed countries.

Circulation of the Blood

Circulation of the Blood
Author: Alfred P. Fishman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 871
Release: 2013-05-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461475465

Capturing the real spirit of creativity in physiology, this book explores the personal elements involved in scientific discovery. Circulation of the Blood is the story of the people and achievements that have changed the way we've come to view the human body. The authors, renowned for their extensive experience in the field, examine the heritage of creative genius involved in physiology and trace the historical development of ideas relating to various aspects of circulation of the blood. Their comprehensive coverage goes from the early discoveries of the Greeks and Romans up to modern times.

Two Great Scotsmen

Two Great Scotsmen
Author: George R. Mather
Publisher: Glasgow : J. Maclehoss
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1893
Genre: Physicians
ISBN:

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311069137X

This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.