Duke Univ Pr Paperback Books
Books pubblicati nella collana Duke Univ Pr Paperback con argomento Medical History
Attachments to War
Terry Jennifer
edizioni Duke Univ Pr collana Duke Univ Pr (Paperback) , 2017
The Cultivation of Whiteness
Anderson Warwick
edizioni Duke Univ Pr collana Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II. Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and “protection” of whiteness, Warwick Anderson describes...
Afterlife of Images
Heinrich Larissa N.
edizioni Duke Univ Pr collana Duke Univ Pr (Paperback) , 2008
In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the...
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Briggs Charles L.
Mantini-Briggs Clara
edizioni Duke Univ Pr collana Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008. In this path-breaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult...
Afterlife of Images
Heinrich Larissa N.
edizioni Duke Univ Pr collana Duke Univ Pr (Paperback) , 2008
In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the...