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| Author | : Edward Hicks Hume |
| Publisher | : New York : W.W. Norton, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 1946 |
| Genre | : Changsha (Hunan Sheng, China) |
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"To have lived in China at a time when Westerners were beginning to try to understand Chinese medical thought, and when China was beginning to recognize the need of the Western approach to scientific medicine, has been a unique experience. This book is the personal record of how one American doctor discovered that medicine was a builder of bridges between nations and cultures." -Prologue.
| Author | : E. H. Hume |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1946 |
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| Author | : Tamara Venit Shelton |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2019-11-26 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0300249403 |
An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia medica crossing between China and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues, has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both facilitating and undermining the consolidation of medical authority among formally trained biomedical scientists in the United States. Practitioners of Chinese medicine, as racial embodiments of “irregular” medicine, became useful foils for Western physicians struggling to assert their superiority of practice. At the same time, Chinese doctors often embraced and successfully employed Orientalist stereotypes to sell their services to non-Chinese patients skeptical of modern biomedicine. What results is a story of racial constructions, immigration politics, cross-cultural medical history, and the lived experiences of Asian Americans in American history.
| Author | : Sheri Fink |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2016-01-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0307718972 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
| Author | : Timothy B. McCall |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2019-05-02 |
| Genre | : Alternative medicine |
| ISBN | : 9781733652100 |
"IN 1997, Timothy McCall, MD left a successful medical career to become a yoga therapist. Twenty years later, diagnosed with metastatic cancer, he returned his focus to the practice of medicine, this time as a patient. He would need all he had learned in both healing worlds.... Dr. McCall leads us on a surprise-filled journey from South India to the US and back, from banana, jackfruit and coconut groves: "Wearing only a muslin loincloth, I lie on a hardwood table. Its legs are still the original color, but the surface is stained dark from years of oil massages. A warm breeze stirs the sun-bleached crimson sari that separates the treatment room from the garden and the coconut palms outside." ... to sterile hospital wards: "Conventional medicine handles disease the way conventional agriculture handles crop pests: excise and poison the invaders until they’ve been killed off. Holistic medicine, on the other hand, resembles organic gardening: nurture the soil in which your plants grow, and your plants will be healthy. I’m using both of these approaches: the cancer is being dosed with toxic chemicals and radiation, while the soil of my body is cared for with healthy whole foods, deep relaxation, and herbs.""--Amazon.
| Author | : Tak Ming Ho |
| Publisher | : Pelanduk Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Medicine |
| ISBN | : 9789679787702 |
In the first millennium BCE, systematic medical education had already begun in China. A Chinese doctor performed surgery using Indian hemp as anaesthesia in the second century AD. After Western medicine was introduced in China, however, Western-trained doctors began to dominate the medical scene, and Chinese medicine went into decline. In the last half-century, however, Chinese medicine has made a reappearance. Will a bold new partnership, a synthesis of West and East, modern and traditional, transform global medicine in the new millenium?
| Author | : Chris Enss |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 147 |
| Release | : 2006-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762751878 |
"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped write the history of the West. In this new book, author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into the fascinating lives of ten of these amazing women.
| Author | : Robert F. Karolevitz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Medical |
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Traces the development of the healing art with such related factors and facets as hospitals, apothecaries, medicines, equipment, nursing and midwifery.
| Author | : Alexander V. Pantsov |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 760 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1451654472 |
This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and leadership in China. This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China. Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of the poor and brutal tyrant, poet and despot. Pantsov and Levine show Mao’s relentless drive to succeed, vividly describing his growing role in the nascent Communist Party of China. They disclose startling facts about his personal life, particularly regarding his health and his lifelong serial affairs with young women. They portray him as the loyal Stalinist that he was, who never broke with the Soviet Union until after Stalin’s death. Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was also responsible for an unprecedented loss of life. The disastrous Great Leap Forward with its accompanying famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution were Mao’s creations. Internationally Mao began to distance China from the USSR under Khrushchev and shrewdly renewed relations with the U.S. as a counter to the Soviets. He lived and behaved as China’s last emperor.
| Author | : Thomas Abraham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2020-04-25 |
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*** East to West *** ** The riveting memoirs of a popular, Hull-based GP who has dedicated over three-and-a-half-decades to the NHS. ** * An exhilarating, clear and eloquent account which simply must be heard. * __________________________________________________________________________________ A contribution from the proceeds of this book will be donated to The Homeless & Rootless Project, Hull; Kerala Forest Development, India; Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Pacha, India. __________________________________________________________________________________ East to West is a powerful and emotive narration of struggles, tragedy, treachery (during the darkest time of the author's life) and a fight for justice. Born in India, the author's childhood was moulded among the mist and midst of British plantations. After qualifying as a doctor, he worked in India for a few years, left for Africa and settled in the UK where he has devoted more than 35 years to his East Riding of Yorkshire community and the NHS. Working tirelessly throughout his medical career, he has listened to fellow human beings in their role as patients; not only to their stories of distress, unpleasant experiences and ailments, but also the pleasantries. Amongst these articulate and fascinating anecdotes relating to his memories as a GP, Dr Abraham also touches on some of his own personal tragedies. Having lost his young daughter unexpectedly, he was faced - shortly after his daughter's funeral - with another life-changing bombshell. Two 'colleagues' tried to discredit his reputation. This led to a hearing in front of the General Medical Council. From his early years in India, his medical school memories, and a lifelong love of cricket (and Shakespeare) to settling in the UK, plunging into General Practice, winning national accolades and being cited as a 'Role Model' by the globally renowned British Medical Journal, there is so much to read in this thought-provoking book that everyone from the lay reader to medical professionals and memoir fanatics will find plenty to resonate with. * Use the 'Look Inside' feature now to sample the opening pages - this is a story which has to be heard. *
