How the evolving concept of chronic disease has affected patients and politics in the United States and Europe.Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health activities until the later decades of the nineteenth century, when it bec...

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic teaching and research in the 19th century into the dominant mode of medical practice by the midd...

Mark Weber, the sole owner and chief executive of a worldwide multilayer conglomerate returned home after an exhausting week.Quickly retiring and falling into a deep sleep, he dreamed that he mysteriously appeared in Jerusalem during the time of the final days of Christ.He was given the gift of tongues, being able to read and speak all languages.He also had the ability to converse telepathically.During his brief visit, he became romantically involved with the daughter of a biblical...

Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.

This book discusses, develops and applies the theory of Vilenkin-Fourier series connected to modern harmonic analysis.The classical theory of Fourier series deals with decomposition of a function into sinusoidal waves. Unlike these continuous waves the Vilenkin (Walsh) functions are rectangular waves. Such waves have already been used frequently in the theory of signal transmission, multiplexing, filtering, image enhancement, code theory, digital signal processing and pattern recog...

Albert Einstein, then the recognized smartest man alive, just after World War II and the use of the atomic bomb, was asked the question, What weapons will be used in World War III?He replied, I dont know. But sticks and stones will certainly beused in World War IV!