Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 1036
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: R.B. Baker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-08-26
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0585274444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette and honor broke down under the pressure of the eighteenth-century "sick trade," to the Enlightenment ethics of John Gregory and Thomas Percival, to the American appropriation process that culminated in the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics, and to the British turn to medical jurisprudence in the 1858 Medical Act. Roy Porter formally presented our idea as a plan for two back-to-back c- ferences to the Wellcome Trust, and I presented it to the editors of the PHI- LOSOPHY AND MEDICINE series, H. Tristram Engeihardt, Jr. and Stuart Spicker. The reception from both parties was enthusiastic and so, with the financial backing of the former and a commitment to publication from the latter, Roy Porter, ably assisted by Frieda Hauser and Steven Emberton, - ganized two conferences. The first was held at the Wellcome Institute in - cember 1989; the second was sponsored by the Wellcome, but was actually held in the National Hospital, in December 1990.
Author: Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521102384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680-1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists as ideal colonies, the physical and medical realities were very different. The study is based on wide research in archival materials in Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States. By steeping himself in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, Professor Sheridan is able to recreate the milieu of a past era: he tells us what the slave doctors wrote and how they functioned, and he presents a storehouse of information on how and why the slaves sickened and died. By bringing together these diverse medical demographic and economic sources, Professor Sheridan casts new light on the history of slavery in the Americas.
Author: Edward Tyas Cook
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3734037972
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: The Life of Florence Nightingale by Edward Tyas Cook