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Le docteur François Marquis, intensiviste bien connu du public, raconte son expérience de la pandémie. Écrit au « je », son livre nous plonge au coeur du quotidien dans l’unité des soins intensifs d’un hôpital universitaire, avec ses victoires, ses défaites, ses erreurs et ses bons coups. Ce récit d’une grande humilité, à la fois franc et nuancé, nous permet de mieux mesurer les enjeux de société soulevés par l’épreuve que nous traversons collectivement depuis plus d’un an.

Lindsey Fitzharris' Buch "Der Horror der frühen Medizin" war ein internationaler Erfolg, wurde in 15 Sprachen übersetzt und stand 19 Wochen lang auf der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerliste. Mit ihrem neuen Hörbuch entführt uns die Autorin zu den grausigen Anfänge der Schönheitschirurgie: Als Harold Gillies die Verheerungen des Ersten Weltkriegs mit eigenen Augen sieht, ist er schockiert. Zu viele junge Männer werden nach nur einem falschen Augenblick ihrem Schicksal überlassen: für immer entstellt, für immer Monster in den Augen der Gesellschaft.

In this narrative history of the US through major outbreaks of contagious disease, from yellow fever to the Spanish flu, from HIV/AIDS to Ebola, Polly J. Price examines how law and government affected the outcome of epidemics—and how those outbreaks in turn shaped our government. Price presents a fascinating history that has never been fully explored and draws larger conclusions about the gaps in our governmental and legal response. 

In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This collection presents the raw moments where his expertise in medical ethics and pediatrics are put to the test.

In The Helpers, journalist Kathy Gilsinan profiles eight individuals on the frontlines of the coronavirus battle: a devoted son caring for his family in the San Francisco Bay Area; a not-quite-retired paramedic from Colorado; an ICU nurse in the Bronx; the CEO of a Seattle-based ventilator company; a vaccine researcher at Moderna in Boston; a young chef and culinary teacher in Louisville, Kentucky; a physician in Chicago; and a funeral home director in Seattle and Los Angeles. These inspiring individual accounts create an unforgettable tapestry of people across the country.

No Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Barbacena, conhecido apenas por Colônia, ocorreu uma das maiores barbáries da história do Brasil. O centro recebia diariamente, além de pacientes com diagnóstico de doença mental, homossexuais, prostitutas, epiléticos, mães solteiras, meninas problemáticas, mulheres engravidadas pelos patrões, moças que haviam perdido a virgindade antes do casamento, mendigos, alcoólatras, melancólicos, tímidos e todo tipo de gente considerada fora dos padrões sociais.

The Fourth History of Man continues with virus infections where The Third History of Man left off: hashing out those specks of genetic schmutz, covering the R-naught of those naughty infectious scoundrels. Some big hitters will be considered, from polio and the famous celebrities that had it, through 50 shades of hepatitis, rabies and the hair of the dog, and the monkey business of HIV and AIDS. Leaving viruses, we’ll delve into a study of parasites, including the parasite of all parasites, Sigourney Weaver’s alien.

The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to protect themselves against smallpox. In The Contagion of Liberty, Andrew M. Wehrman describes a revolution within a revolution, where the violent insistence for freedom from disease ultimately helped American colonists achieve independence from Great Britain.

Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. With a clear-eyed approach to their science and history, How Vaccines Work demystifies the strange and intricate world of vaccines: it explains what a vaccine is, how they are developed and what happens when they meet our bodies.

Pubblicato sotto forma di libello, nel 1727, "The Friendly Daemon, Or, the Generous Apparition" riporta lo scambio epistolare fra Duncan Campbell - guarito dall'epilessia per il fortuito intervento di un angelo custode - e il suo medico, a cui viene chiesto un parere professionale su quanto avvenuto. L'uomo, esortato a dire la propria, finirà col raccontare altri eventi simili, esibendosi poi in un’erudita disamina di tutte le tecniche più strane utilizzate per guarire dai mali peggiori.

African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.

Las cartas literarias han sido un medio privilegiado para que los sabios de diversas disciplinas transmitan sus conocimientos a los jóvenes, ansiosos o inseguros por iniciarse en su profesión. A través de 28 cartas, el doctor Ortiz Quezada se manifiesta por una medicina con vocación humanista, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre el sentido último de esta profesión, sobre la naturaleza del sufrimiento y sobre la condición pluridimensional del ser humano. Asimismo, hace una severa crítica de los principales vicios de la medicina moderna.

Quando Jennifer Doudna ainda cursava a sexta série, encontrou em sua cama um exemplar de A dupla hélice, de James Watson, deixado por seu pai. Avançando pelas páginas, Doudna ficou fascinada com os bastidores da competição científica pela descoberta dos tijolinhos que constroem a vida. Motivada pela paixão de entender o funcionamento da natureza e por transformar descobertas em invenções práticas, Doudna ajudaria a realizar aquilo que o próprio James Watson, um dos descobridores da estrutura do DNA, classificara como o próximo avanço científico mais importante da biologia.

Em 1918, um novo vírus de influenza, até então restrito às aves, passou a se manifestar também em humanos. Um ano mais tarde, o saldo era de pelo menos 100 mil mortos daquela que ficaria conhecida na história como gripe espanhola, marcando o primeiro grande embate entre a ciência e uma pandemia. Em apenas dois anos o vírus matou mais pessoas do que a Aids em todo o mundo ao longo dos 24 anos desde a sua descoberta, e mais pessoas em um ano do que a peste negra ao longo de um século.

If you want to make a living by transitioning into the medical writing field as a freelancer or by working a job, then this book is for you. It doesn’t matter if you have previous experience working in the medical field or not, as this field has a vast array of opportunities.

Auf der ganzen Welt lernen Ärzte und Ärztinnen von echten Krankheiten und Patienten. Sie lernen, wie sich Symptome äußern und wie man sie lindern oder sogar heilen kann. Manche dieser Fälle und Menschen sind so besonders, dass sie in die Geschichte eingehen. Im zweiten Band Rätselhafte Fälle der Medizingeschichte lädt Autor und Arzt Roy Benaroch wieder ein, mit ihm zusammen auf Spurensuche zu gehen. Anhand historischer Quellen zeichnet er das Leben bekannter historischer Persönlichkeiten nach und fahndet nach Hinweisen zu ihren Krankheiten und Symptomen.

Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were the ten biblical plagues that famously smote the Egyptians—from the rain of frogs to the deaths of the firstborn—but that is just the start of the story. In The Eleventh Plague, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the ages, from premodern and early-modern plagues, to rabbinic responses to smallpox and cholera, and to the curious practice of "Black Weddings" in which two orphans are married in a cemetery.

Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich's incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians' courage and resilience in the face of evil.

Videnskaben har altid eksperimenteret på mennesker, og resultaterne har haft stor betydning for meget af det, vi i dag ved om menneskekroppen og sindet. De fleste steder i verden er der strenge etiske regler for, hvordan videnskabelige forsøg bliver udført. Men sådan har det ikke altid været. I serien EKSPERIMENTER MED MENNESKER dykker vi ned i nogle af historiens mest grusomme menneskeforsøg. Forsøgene revolutionerede videnskaben, men havde frygtelige konsekvenser for de involverede.

Jede Krankheit und jeder Mensch haben das Potential, Medizingeschichte zu schreiben. Seit Hunderten von Jahren ergründen Ärzte und Ärztinnen auf der ganzen Welt die Geheimnisse der Medizin, indem sie sich echte Fälle ansehen. Autor und Arzt Roy Benaroch hat für uns spannende Fälle der Medizingeschichte gesammelt, in denen bekannte Persönlichkeiten der Weltgeschichte als mysteriöser Patient oder Patientin vor uns stehen.