The Seven Ages of a Medical Scientist

The Seven Ages of a Medical Scientist
Author: George W. Corner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1512815330

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Tissue Culture in Science and Society

Tissue Culture in Science and Society
Author: D. Wilson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230307515

This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue.

Clinical Research in Occupational Therapy, Sixth Edition

Clinical Research in Occupational Therapy, Sixth Edition
Author: Martin Rice
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2024-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1040143490

In this new edition, Dr. George Tomlin joins Dr. Martin S. Rice and Dr. Franklin Stein to add expertise and knowledge of the occupational therapy field. With the combined knowledge and skills of the authors Clinical Research in Occupational Therapy, Sixth Edition includes many valuable updates and enables the graduate student and clinical researcher to carry out a research study from the formulation of a research hypothesis to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data in user-friendly, step-by-step procedures. This Sixth Edition brings noteworthy changes, improvements, and enhancements, including the following: A thorough update of the published research in occupational therapy and health care Major revisions in all the chapters The addition of a new chapter on single-case experimental research Updated research boxes and contemporary examples of both quantitative and qualitative research Updated compilation of tests and evaluations used by occupation therapists in research studies as outcome instruments and for clinical assessments Revision and additions to the glossary of terms and statistics Updated examples of the institutional review board application forms Updated landmarks in the history of occupational therapy Updated interfacing example with a popular statistical software, including data organization analysis and interpretation Updated statistical tables Clinical Research in Occupational Therapy, Sixth Edition is a valuable resource for students, clinicians and researchers. The text can be used as a complete self-tutorial that provides the reader with the knowledge and skills to design and carry out a research project, from hypothesis through data collection and analysis. The text is written to help the reader evaluate the quality and rigor of research studies. The Sixth Edition incorporates recent research in occupational therapy to help the reader design a feasible research project and understand and appreciate the literature of the field.

Time to Heal

Time to Heal
Author: Kenneth M. Ludmerer M.D.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1999-11-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190283637

Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests. Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a muck-raking report on medical diploma mills spurred the reform and expansion of medical schools, to the current era of managed care, when commercial interests once more have come to the fore, compromising the training of the nation's future doctors. Ludmerer portrays the experience of learning medicine from the perspective of students, house officers, faculty, administrators, and patients, and he traces the immense impact on academic medical centers of outside factors such as World War II, the National Institutes of Health, private medical insurance, and Medicare and Medicaid. Most notably, the book explores the very real threats to medical education in the current environment of managed care, viewing these developments not as a catastrophe but as a challenge to make many long overdue changes in medical education and medical practice. Panoramic in scope, meticulously researched, brilliantly argued, and engagingly written, Time to Heal is both a stunning work of scholarship and a courageous critique of modern medical education. The definitive book on the subject, it provides an indispensable framework for making informed choices about the future of medical education and health care in America.

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century
Author: Christian Bonah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 131732319X

This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array of contradictory attitudes towards meat and human health. They show how meat came to be regarded as a central part of a modern healthy diet and trace critiques of meat-eating and the meat industry.

Crossing Frontiers

Crossing Frontiers
Author: W. Andrew Achenbaum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1995-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521481945

This is the first book-length study of the history of gerontology. It shows how old age became a 'problem' worth investigating and how a mulitidisciplinary orientation took shape.

Ourselves Unborn

Ourselves Unborn
Author: Sara Dubow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190610719

INTRODUCTION: FETAL STORIES; 1. Discovering Fetal Life, 1870s-1920s; 2. Interpreting Fetal Bodies, 1930s-1970s; 3. Defining Fetal Personhood, 1973-1976; 4. Defending Fetal Rights: 1970s-1990s; 5. Debating Fetal Pain, 1984-2007; EPILOGUE: FETAL MEANINGS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY.