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Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
 

Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail (Paperback)

By Druett, Joan

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Using diaries, journals and correspondence the author tells a fascinating story of remarkable men who shipped out as doctors on South Sea whalers in the early nineteenth century.

ISBN 9780415924528
Published 18 October 2001 by Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima and the Marshall Islands

Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima and the Marshall Islands (Hardback)

By Yamazaki, James N.; Fleming, Louis B.; Foreword by Dower, John W.

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Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view. In this uncommon memoir, Dr. James N. Yamazaki tells us in personal and moving terms of the h ...

ISBN 9780822316589
Published 1 June 1995 by Inbooks
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Series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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Global Health Challenge: Essays on Aids

Global Health Challenge: Essays on Aids (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

Edited by Morrison, Gordon

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This text examines blood vaccine research; governmental strategies to contain the epidemic; media influence over the public; ways in which infections use HIV as a gateway to create sub-epidemics in developing countries; and how the epidemic can undermine a society economically an ...

ISBN 9780850926514
Published 1 January 2001 by Commonwealth Secretariat
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Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach

Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach (Paperback)

By Secretariat, Commonwealth

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This manual offers a number of case studies from developing and developed countries, which illustrate how programmes that promote HIV prevention by addressing gender and the social and economic factors that increase people's risk of infection are more likely to succeed in changin ...

ISBN 9780850926552
Published 1 January 2002 by Commonwealth Secretariat
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Series New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
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Mainstreaming Gender in the Health Sector

Mainstreaming Gender in the Health Sector (Paperback)

By Secretariat, Commonwealth

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This is the consensus built up in a series of workshops in different regions of the Commonwealth on what is the most effective way of applying Gender Management System principles and methodology to the health sector. This manual should assist other countries in adapting mainstrea ...

ISBN 9780850927337
Published 1 January 2002 by Commonwealth Secretariat
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The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health

The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health (Hardback)

By McMullin, Juliet Marie

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Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they 'fail' to seek medical care, are 'non-compliant' patients, or 'lack immunity' enjoyed by the 'mainstream' population. This title shows how it masks fundament ...

ISBN 9781598744996
Published 1 October 2009 by Left Coast Press Inc
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Series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropolgy
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The Health of Cook Islands Men in Tokoroa, New Zealand
  

The Health of Cook Islands Men in Tokoroa, New Zealand (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Natua, John

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This study investigates the health of Cook Islands men in the township of Tokoroa, New Zealand. Cook Islands men first arrived in Tokoroa during the 1950s, with the opening of the local Kinleith Sawmill. A workforce was required for the growing timber industry thus waves of Cook ...

ISBN 9783639377101
Published 30 August 2011
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Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (Hardback, illustrated edition)

By Mohr, James C.

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This book examines the outbreak of plague in Honolulu in 1899/1900. One of the worst disasters in US public health history, the outbreak resulted in the accidental burning of Honolulu's Chinatown and many of the city's Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian citizens losing their homes a ...

ISBN 9780195162318
Published 28 October 2004 by Oxford University Press
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Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914

Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914 (Hardback)

By Coleborne, Catharine

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Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.

ISBN 9780230578074
Published 18 November 2009 by Macmillan Publishers New Zeala
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Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884-1984

Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884-1984 (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New edition)

By Denoon, Donald; With Dugan, Kathleen; Marshall, Leslie; Series edited by Rosenberg, Charles; Jones, Colin

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A study of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care in colonial Papua New Guinea.

ISBN 9780521523028
Published 1 October 2008 by Cambridge University Press
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Series Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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