The story of a world-renowned institution and "a broad investigation of early twentieth-century public health ideology in America" ( Journal of the American Medical Association).At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists—there was little agreement ab...

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, Women and Health explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women. Specific sections address the women's health movement, birth control and childbirth, women in the health labor force, and the influence of women's employment on their health. Already acclaimed by scholars and health policy-makers alike, Women and Health is sure to become a standard sourcebook on an importa...

According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how well has the WHO pursued this mission since 1946? This comprehensive and engaging new history explores these questions by looking at its origins and its institutional antecedents, while also con...

Gone, but not Forgotten refers to the author's maternal lineage: the Ankrom family. She traveled far and wide to courthouses, cemeteries, and libraries, gathering family information. This book goes through the tenth generation of the Ankrom family, going back into the 1700's, when Richard and Elizabeth Ankrom were living in Frederick County, Maryland.

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"ESTE LIVRO NASCEU DA CONVICÇÃO DE QUE TANTO O MUNDO QUANTO A IGREJA PRECISAM URGENTEMENTE OUVIR E LEVAR A SÉRIO A MENSAGEM DA IGUALDADE BÍBLICA."Ao longo da história da igreja, a visão de que homens e mulheres deveriam atuar de formas distintas com base em seu sexo foi predominante. Isso significou que homens detiveram prerrogativas exclusivas e perpétuas de liderança e de autoridade não compartilhadas pelas mulheres. Contudo, vozes dissidentes também surgiram, qu...

George Rosen's wide-ranging account of public health's long and fascinating history is an indispensable classic.Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such co...

Originally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist delivered at Cornell University in 1940. Now back in print, the book is a wide-ranging account of the importance of social factors on health and illness and the impact that disease has had on societies throughout human history. Despite considerable advances in both medicine and historiography, Civilization and Disease remains a landmark work...

En Angleterre, les légendes ont été mises sous clé depuis longtemps.La fée Rêvage complote pour détruire cette prison et retrouver son pouvoir sur l'humanité. Elle a même glissé un changeling dans le berceau de la reine...Mais Philomène, voleuse aux doigts de fée, croise sa route.Philomène fait main basse sur une terrible monture, des encres magiques, un chaudron d'or et même cette drôle de clé qui change de forme sans arrêt. Tant pis si les malédictions se collent ...

Amis à la vie à la mort, la fée Orégane et le magicien Marcus quitteront ensemble un jeune XXe siècle étriqué pour vivre leur quête sur les terres des fées. Mais le Sidh renaissant, libéré des ténèbres et de la tyrannie des dieux, les accueillera-t-il à bras ouverts ?Les deux exilés, embauchés comme précepteurs, découvriront une magie en berne, des créatures méfiantes et des spectres en colère et, surtout, le mystérieux roi-fée. Sauveur ou menteur ?Les héros du renouveau se ...

This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women's health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health Services", edited by Vicente Navarro. The essays in this volume were originally published in the 1980...

"La sagesse de la parole de Fée" convie à une immersion intime dans son univers intérieur, où chaque phrase agit comme un phare illuminant le chemin vers l’authenticité et l’épanouissement personnel. Bien au-delà d’un essai, cet ouvrage se révèle être un véritable guide spirituel pour les âmes en quête de sens, ravivant avec délicatesse des sagesses anciennes enfouies, et toutes profondément essentielles. C’est une ode lumineuse à la transformation intérieure ouvrant des perspectives inspi...