Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome

Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome
Author: Frances Gage
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780271071039

Through a study of the writings of the papal physician and art critic Giulio Mancini, explores early modern art collecting in Italy. Argues that art within domestic contexts was understood to create healthy bodies, minds, and societies through the mechanism of the imagination.

ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Author: David Snashall
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-11-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118485505

This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like “RSI” and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links to public health, health promotion, the value of work, disabled people at work, the aging workforce, vocational rehabilitation, evidence based practice, and further chapters on the health effects of climate change and of occupational health and safety in relation to migration and terrorism.