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"This study of the transformation of the relationship between doctors and patients from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies has acquired the status of a minor classic. In this paperback edition the author has added an afterword on patient autonomy that encompasses some more recent changes in the practice of medicine and the evolving field loosely, but inexactly, characterized as bioethics. He has left intact his portrayal of the earlier, epochal...
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This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert advice with a shaker of salt. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English ably show that many experts gleefully hammer recalcitrant souls into a shape acceptable to society, rather than encouraging people to find their own way. The book plunges into 150 years of misbegotten advice to women and questionable insights into feminine nature that have many modern parallels. In the service of...
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Somaliland, a region of Somalia that lay in ruin from years of war, suffers some of the world's highest rates of infant and maternal mortality. But 15 years ago, Edna Adan fulfilled a lifelong dream by building a nonprofit hospital and nursing school to address the health needs of women. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
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The Industrial Revolution brought about some important advancements. These included the understanding of human physiology, diseases and their treatment, medicine, and medical procedures. This program, targeted at GCSE history students, covers a range of important developments, including Pasteur's Germ Theory, improvements in hospital care and the work of Florence Nightingale, the use of anesthetics and vaccinations, and the Public Health Act of 1875....
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Between 1500 and 1700, people's understanding of disease and medicine progressed. New approaches, particularly the scientific method, led to significant changes, including identifying how blood flows around the body and the classification of diseases. However, elements of superstition and religious beliefs still prevailed in diagnoses and treatments. This program explores this period in Britain's medical history and is an excellent resource for GCSE...
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1798 was an important year for Edward Jenner, a country doctor from Berkley in Gloucestershire. Already a fellow of the Royal Society after discovering the anti-social nesting behavior of cuckoos, Jenner published a paper documenting his success using the mild cowpox virus to immunize his patients against smallpox. This program examines his life and achievements. Follow in Jenner's footsteps around the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside, the places...
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This documentary tells the story of Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the vaccine that conquered polio, the most feared disease of the 20th century. A horror movie could not be more dramatic; polio is a mysterious disease that preys on children, killing them or leaving them crippled. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a victim of polio, inspires the public to send in their dimes to fund research, some of the money goes to an ambitious young scientist,...
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Taking two tablets with a glass of water is one thing, but diluting two drops of a drug in a bath full of water hardly sounds like potent medicine. Yet homeopathic doctors prescribe medicines diluted in more than a million, million, million parts of water. Doctors and vets claim spectacular achievements with such remedies, and scientific trials are producing results that are not easy to explain.
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This program examines health, medicine, and surgery in Britain between 1250 and 1500, when knowledge and practices were largely based on superstition and untested theories such as the human body's four humors. It also looks at the various causes wrongly attributed to the Black Death, which killed 1.5 million people. This is an interesting and informative history resource--ideal for GCSE history students.
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This is the story of the renowned institution that has been called the "place for hope when there is no hope." By combining the history of the institution with stories about present-day patients, the film makes an important contribution to discussions about our commitment to taking care of each other, about the role of money and profit in medicine, and about the very nature of healing itself.
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This program explores developments in health and medicine during the 20th and 21st centuries. These include diagnostics and X-rays, CT and MRI scans, the understanding of genetics and how it impacts individuals' health, antibiotics, blood transfusions, insulin, and antihistamines. It also looks at examples of legislation aimed at improving public health and the development of the NHS. This is a valuable resource for GSCE history students.
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Raymond argues that high-tech reproductive technologies violate the integrety of women's bodies, perpetuate an international trafficking in children and prostitution, and are a threat to women's basic human rights.
In Women and Wombs, leading feminist ethicist Janice Raymond's scathing analysis of high-tech biomedical reproductive techniques contributes groundbreaking insights into the raging debate over reproductive technology and its ethical, legal,...
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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