
By John C. Burnham
ISBN-10: 1421416077
ISBN-13: 9781421416076
ISBN-10: 1421416085
ISBN-13: 9781421416083
In Health Care in the US, historian John C. Burnham describes alterations over 4 centuries of medication and public health and wellbeing in the US. starting with seventeenth-century matters over own and local health problems, Burnham concludes with the coming of a brand new epoch in American medication and wellbeing and fitness care on the flip of the twenty-first century.
From the 1600s throughout the Nineteen Nineties, americans grew to become to a number of healers, practices, and associations of their efforts to avoid and live on epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. well-being care employees in all classes attended births and deaths and cared for those that had accidents, disabilities, and protracted diseases.
Drawing on basic assets, vintage scholarship, and an unlimited physique of modern literature within the background of medication and public healthiness, Burnham unearths that conventional therapeutic, care, and medication ruled the us until eventually the past due 19th century, whilst antiseptic/aseptic surgical procedure and germ thought initiated an highbrow, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of recent medication into a number of eras: physiological medication (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), know-how (1950s–1960s), environmental medication (1970s–1980s), and, starting round 1990, genetic medication. The cumulating advancements in each one period ended in today’s extensively altered doctor-patient dating and the insistent questions that swirl round the monetary fee of overall healthiness care.
Burnham’s sweeping narrative is smart of clinical perform, scientific examine, and human frailties and foibles, beginning the door to a brand new realizing of our present concerns.

By Ernst Haeckel
ISBN-10: 0260914150
ISBN-13: 9780260914156
ISBN-10: 0266696872
ISBN-13: 9780266696872
This e-book is a replica of the unique publication released in 1874 and will have a few imperfections resembling marks or hand-written notes.

By Jim Ottaviani,Janine Johnston,Steve Lieber,Vince Locke,Bernie Mireault,Jeff Parker,Jeffrey Jones
ISBN-10: 0966010639
ISBN-13: 9780966010633
Like its spouse volumes, the point of interest of Fallout is at the scientists themselves -- particularly J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard, whose lives provide a cautionary story concerning the uneasy alliance among the army, the govt, and the beginnings of "big science."

By Martin Curd,Stathis Psillos
ISBN-10: 0415518741
ISBN-13: 9780415518741
ISBN-10: 041551875X
ISBN-13: 9780415518758
The Routledge spouse to Philosophy of Science is an integral reference resource and consultant to the key topics, debates, difficulties and issues in philosophy of technological know-how. It comprises sixty-two specifically commissioned entries by means of a number one staff of overseas members. equipped into 4 elements it covers:
- historical and philosophical context
- debates
- concepts
- the person sciences.
The Routledge spouse to Philosophy of Science addresses the entire crucial issues that scholars of philosophy of technology want to know - from empiricism, clarification and scan to causation, commentary, prediction and extra - and includes many useful beneficial properties together with chapters on person sciences (such as biology, chemistry, physics and psychology), extra interpreting and cross-referencing on the finish of every chapter.
Expanded and revised all through, this moment version contains new chapters on Conventionalism, Social Epistemology, computing device Simulation, idea Experiments, Pseudoscience, Species and Taxonomy, and Cosmology.

By Maria Semi,translated by Timothy Keates
ISBN-10: 1138278912
ISBN-13: 9781138278912
ISBN-10: 1409428680
ISBN-13: 9781409428688

By Tracy Teslow
ISBN-10: 1107011736
ISBN-13: 9781107011731
ISBN-10: 1316603385
ISBN-13: 9781316603383

By Agustín Udías
ISBN-10: 3319083643
ISBN-13: 9783319083643
ISBN-10: 3319384120
ISBN-13: 9783319384122

By Robert Fox
ISBN-10: 0754669602
ISBN-13: 9780754669609
ISBN-10: 1138110140
ISBN-13: 9781138110144

By Michael Hoskin
ISBN-10: 1107018382
ISBN-13: 9781107018389

By Angus McLaren
ISBN-10: 0226560694
ISBN-13: 9780226560694