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Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum I commentariorum I-III versio Arabica / Galen. Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book I
(2014)
The present volume offers the first critical edition of Book 1 of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics, produced by the celebrated translator Hunayn ibn Ishāq (d. ca. 870). The ...
Field Trials of Health Interventions, 3rd edition
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
The making of British bioethics
(2014)
Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social scientists, now discuss and help regulate ...
Health For All
(2015)
Universal Health Coverage as defined by the World Health Organization encompasses equal access for all to good quality health services and with no financial risk for those in need of them. As such it is a modern term ...
Chapter 4 AVATAR Therapy for Refractory Auditory Hallucinations
(2016)
AVATAR therapy is part of a new and exciting wave of therapies which adopt an explicitly
relational and dialogic approach to working with the distressing voices. To understand
the AVATAR approach, it is important to ...
Chapter 6 Contextualizing bioethics
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics
(2020)
Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in ...
Chapter 6 Disability and Human Rights
(2019)
This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in ...
Balancing the self
(2020)
Concepts of ‘balance’ have been central to modern politics, medicine and society. Yet, while many health, environmental and social challenges are discussed globally in terms of imbalances in biological, social and ecological ...
Chapter Agentive Phenomenology
(2020)
This chapter reflects on questions about the nature and sources of agentive phenomenology—that is, the set of those experience-types associated with exercises of agency, and paradigmatically with intentional actions. The ...
Chapter Consciousness and Morality
(2020)
This chapter considers three connections between consciousness and issues in ethics: first, the relevance of consciousness for questions surrounding an entity’s moral status; second, the relevance of consciousness for ...
Chapter 13 The Role of Neuroscience in Precise, Precautionary, and Probabilistic Accounts of Sentience
(2020)
Given that there is currently no consensus as to exactly which animals are
sentient, how should we make moral decisions when we are uncertain as to
which of the animals influenced by that decision are sentient? And how ...
Chapter 6 Ageing and Gender Preferences in Rural Indonesia
(2015)
This chapter draws on the longitudinal ethnographic and demographic
field study of three communities representing major Indonesian ethnicities
(Javanese, Sundanese, and Minangkabau), located in three of the five
provinces ...
Chapter 2 ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’
(2018)
This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the ...
Chapter 10 Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State
(2016)
In the next section, I sketch a view in which the possession of phenomenal consciousness (henceforth: “consciousness”) is necessary for possession of (positive or negative degrees of) subjective well-being. It would seem ...
Chapter 10 Animal, Mechanical, and Me
(2019)
Organ donation and transplantation is a largely successful treatment used to replace failing organs. However, donation rates have never met the demand for transplantable organs. Biomedical researchers are exploring alternative ...
Chapter 15 The Politics of Tackling Inequalities
(2015)
This chapter is concerned with the growing influence of non-material explanations for inequalities and a corresponding emphasis on psychological interventions, which aim to modify cognitive function or emotional ...
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
Chapter 5 Respiratory Syncytial Virus
(2016)
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has an estimated global incidence of 33 million cases in children younger than 5 years, with 10% requiring hospital admission and up to 199,000 dying of the disease. There is ...
Chapter 7 Finding the global in the local
(2020)
Numerous studies describe the genetic make-up of populations living outside Europe and North America. Many of these tackle human genetic variation with the explicit aim of identifying gene variants of medical significance ...
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and ...
Chapter 1 Patterns of Death, 1800-2020
(2021)
This chapter provides a brief introduction to mortality patterns over the last two centuries, from a global perspective. The period witnessed enormous and ubiquitous rises in life expectancy at birth, from a global average ...
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London
(2020)
This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, ...
Chapter 4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature
(2019)
This chapter explores the various ways in which Galen was revived in the works of Byzantine medical authors by concentrating on literary output from the seventh/eighth century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman ...
Chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks
(2019)
This chapter explores the use and adaptation of the
Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers. It is divided
into two main sections dealing with Greek and Latin authors respectively.
Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia
(2019)
Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread
prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually
regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or ...
Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation
(2019)
This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, ...
Vaccinating Britain
(2019)
Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five ...
Chapter 11 Understanding the Social Care Crisis in England Through Older People’s Lived Experiences
(2020)
The chapter’s focus is social care in England where responsibility for
the organisation and funding of care has shifted from the state to the individual.
It draws on a qualitative research project about the experiences ...
Chapter 9 Which Patient Takes Centre Stage?
(2020)
The growth of personalised medicine and patient partnerships in biomedical
research are reshaping both the emotional and material intersections
between human patients and animal research. Through tracing the creative ...
Striving for Equity
(2020)
Focusing on the period from independence in 1948 to the millennium this book is an historical analysis of the process by which Sri Lanka became a model of how a nation with limited resources could nevertheless achieve ...
Chapter 4 Welfarist Psychiatry Goes Global
(2020)
We begin by describing welfarist psychiatry before outlining the relevant challenges to improving global mental health and explaining how welfarist psychiatry meets those challenges.
Drugs Politics
(2019)
Iran has one of the world’s highest rates of drug addiction, estimated to be between two and seven per cent of the entire population. This makes the questions this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal ...
Migraine
(2019)
For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In ...
Medieval Welsh Medical Texts
(2020)
This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday ...
Chapter 9 The essence of rage
(2017)
In the present paper I aim to explore the related area of how, for Galen, emotional states - the soul's affections, or pathē - are connected with bodily states. I shall be doing this largely on the basis of texts which are ...
Chapter 15 La medicina predittiva e il dibattito etico sui test genetici
(2019)
The "genetic revolution" that characterized the beginning of the third millennium
and the most recent “genomic revolution” have made me wait more and more
of human existence have become the object of scientific and ...
Chapter 19 ‘A Tragedy as Old as History’
(2017)
This chapter will explore how the infertile patient was characterized, perceived, and treated by the medical profession in 1950s England and Scotland. Such was the concern that this subject engendered in postwar Britain ...