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The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed [2013] by Debbie Bookchin
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Debbie Bookchin [Bookchin, Debbie]

16 The Perfect War Machine THE CARDINAL BERNARDIN Cancer Center at Loyola University, located in the outskirts of Chicago in Maywood, Illinois, is a multimillion-dollar monument to this nation’s preoccupation ...
( Category: Medicine July 9,2020 )
Precision Community Health by Bechara Choucair
epub |eng | | Author:Bechara Choucair [Choucair, Bechara]

Learning In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (renamed the National Academy of Medicine in 2015) began to develop an idea called the Learning Healthcare System. The first report from the ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (Series Q) by Paula A. Treichler
epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Paula A. Treichler [Treichler, Paula A.]

Education, Prevention, and Community: Who Are the “We”? These ambiguous reports and contradictory representations have made it difficult to conceptualize communities or cohorts of “women at risk” and have discouraged ...
( Category: LGBT July 5,2020 )
Pandemic by Sonia Shah
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-04-22 | Author:Sonia Shah

SEVEN THE CURE Finding out how cholera spread and how to stop it was a matter of great urgency for every part of nineteenth-century society affected by the disease, but ...
( Category: Infectious Disease July 4,2020 )
On Vanishing by Lynn Casteel Harper
epub |eng | 2019-01-24 | Author:Lynn Casteel Harper

• In 2010, four years before my grandfather’s death, I had a transformative experience with darkness, and its complementary relationship to light, atop Mount Sinai. I admit, a minister claiming ...
( Category: Neurology July 2,2020 )
Health and Medicine by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Ethical Approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration ...
( Category: Communicable Diseases July 1,2020 )
On Pandemics by David Waltner-Toews
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:David Waltner-Toews

( 11 ) RATS, BATS, AND MONKEYS: LASSA, EBOLA, AND MARBURG HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS: the name says it all, and it conjures up many of our darkest fears. These diseases all, ...
( Category: Epidemiology June 30,2020 )
Global Health Watch 4 by Global Health Watch
epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Global Health Watch

In contrast, Fiji has been able to intervene effectively by banning mutton and lamb flap sales (see Box C3.2). Conclusion While they cannot claim to be representative of the whole ...
( Category: Epidemiology June 19,2020 )
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Alondra Nelson [Nelson, Alondra]

5. AS AMERICAN AS CHERRY PIE Contesting the Biologization of Violence Black doctors, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, and concerned citizens, where are you? Please come forth to prevent this dangerous form of ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 12,2020 )
Resilient Cyborgs by Nelly Oudshoorn
epub |eng | | Author:Nelly Oudshoorn

Passing techniques may be used temporarily. Sometimes women get used to the visible traces of their implant and decide to stop hiding them:People so far only stare at my scar, ...
( Category: Disabled June 4,2020 )
How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger M.D. FACLM
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM

Though critics dismissed his comments as a bit fishy—comparing it to “duck and cover” during a nuclear attack3245—he was at least on the right track. Shortly afterward, the Department of ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 27,2020 )
The New Plagues by Stefan Kaufmann
epub |eng | | Author:Stefan Kaufmann

Protozoa on the march Many people have heard of sleeping sickness. The causative agent of the disease, a trypanosome, is transmitted to humans by the bite of the tsetse fly ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 5,2020 )
When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri MD
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Danielle Ofri, MD [Ofri, Danielle]

CHAPTER ELEVEN I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT The idea of a legal redress for medical errors dates back almost four thousand years to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi. It was ...
( Category: Doctor-Patient Relations May 2,2020 )
The End of Epidemics by Dr. Jonathan D. Quick
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dr. Jonathan D. Quick

* * * The Power of Broadcast Drama Let’s say you were living in Sierra Leone in 2014, right before Ebola struck. Back then, AIDS was the beastliest disease around, ...
( Category: Infectious Disease April 27,2020 )
The Opioid Fix by Barbara Andraka-Christou
epub |eng | 2020-04-23 | Author:Barbara Andraka-Christou

* Note that having a DATA-waivered physician in your county does not mean that buprenorphine is actually accessible, merely that at least one physician is legally able to prescribe it. ...
( Category: Drug Dependency April 24,2020 )

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