A Bibliography of Medical Publications Relating to Sri Lanka, 1811-1976

A Bibliography of Medical Publications Relating to Sri Lanka, 1811-1976
Author: Kamalika Pieris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1980
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

4421 entries to "publications on human health and disease in Sri Lanka, as viewed from the perspective of Western Medicine." Includes serial and monographic literature published between 1811-1976, and in English, French, German, Italian, and Sinhala. Alphabetical subject arrangement according to MeSH headings (1977). Each entry gives bibliographical information. Contains a list of Sri Lanka periodicals consulted.

From Hippocrates to COVID-19

From Hippocrates to COVID-19
Author: Dale A. Stirling
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2023-05-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1000574830

The COVID-19 pandemic provides stark evidence of the importance of medicine on a global scale. However, revisiting the influenza pandemic of 1918 provided a perspective as we searched for a viable vaccine and instituted public health measures. This shows that medical knowledge is an accumulative process extending to the past and it is in the spirit of that legacy that this bibliography has been compiled. The book is a one-stop resource that cites literature related to the historical aspects of medicine. It also acknowledges medicine’s global reach and devotes significant effort in that respect. Although the online world seems to dominate on both a social and educational level, there is still a need for thoughtfully curated and focused reference works and this bibliography accomplishes that goal. The book has 9,000+ citations. It utilizes the WHO's International classification of Diseases for the section on diseases and disorders and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Product Code Classification Database for the section on medical devices, equipment, and instruments. It includes detailed subject, geographuc, and people indexes for an easy reference.

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Author: Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911307843

The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.