...G. S. Rousseau Medicine and Literature . Edited by Peschel Enid Rhodes , Introduction by Pellegrino Edmund D. M.D. New York : Neale Watson Publications , 1980 . Pp. xix , 204 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 481 guage...

...James Harvey Young Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Self-Dosage Medicine in America, 1906 and 1981 James Harvey Young My choice of theme for this lecture derives chiefly from two circum­ stances. In the first place, it seems appropriate for me, speaking at Duke University...

...Archibald Rutledge Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 THE DUKE AND THE MEDICINE MAN ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE ON NOVEMBER i, 1877, George, English Duke of Lancaster, dispatched the following letter to a friend in Lancaster County, South Carolina: Birmingham, Eng., Nov. i, 1877. My Dear...

...I. B. Holley, Jr. William H. Welsh and the Rise of Modern Medicine . By Fleming Donald . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. 216 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 413 advantage combined, insufficient to prevent this scourge from...

...Charles O. Jackson Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The Amphetamine Democracy: Medicinal Abuse in the Popular Culture Charles O. Jackson In the third week of October 1967 the bodies of 18-year-old Linda Fitzpatrick and 21-year-old James Hutchinson were found in a slum cellar...

...William E. DeTurk Drugs, Medicines, and Man . By Bum Harold . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1962 . Pp. viii , 248 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Book Reviews 153 soundness of judgment, in the case of the chapter headed The American Scene...

...James Harvey Young Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 PATENT MEDICINES IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY JAMES HARVEY YOUNG PERFUMED snuff does not rank high as a medicine in a peni­ cillin age. It could pass for a cure-all a century ago. Quackery, not yet vanquished, enjoyed...

..., at the very least, by interrelations between multinational corporate interests, the local generic drug industry, neoliberal patient consumers, marginalized experimental subjects of clinical trials, and global civil society advocates for access to essential medicines. My argument is that the constitutive state...

... such as personalized medicine, hinges upon locating individual idiosyncrasies within large populations. The essay's first two sections draw on Michel Foucault's account of the historical emergence of biopolitics to illuminate the metaphysical assumptions that underwrite the modern concept of population. The third...

... of medicalization and of discourses of security in a time of crisis, and racial gesture. After an introduction to the scope and contingencies of the various forms of “agitation” considered, it considers the uses of agitation for contemporary medicine and asks for an expansion beyond narrow readings of intention...

... racism, in and across the spaces and performances of the law, academia, and medicine. I explore the condition of being rhetorically disabled in different institutional situations and show how certain practices—of relation, pedagogy, and care— can interfere with this condition, creating passageways...

... and excessive attempts at overregulation, and has been subject to more restrictions than most fields of medicine. The June 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , essentially overturning the federal constitutional protections of the legal right to access abortion afforded...

... of the Institute for Human Values in Medicine, Philadelphia, he has done clinical work at the James Whitcomb Riley Childrens Hospital and the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital and UNC College of Medicine at Chapel Hill. The South Atlantic Quarterly 83:3, Summer, 1984...

... to his resourceful­ ness in meeting any emergency that confronted him in his line of duty. His training was meager, judged by present standards. It usually consisted of a year of reading medicine in a doctor s office followed by two courses of lectures of about sixteen weeks each in a medical school...

... right wrist. This volume brings the publication of Jefferson s papers to approximate­ ly the midpoint of his five-year residence in France as American commis­ sioner and minister. noble e. cunningham, jr. William H. Welsh and the Rise of Modern Medicine. By Donald Fleming. Boston: Little, Brown...

... and more. I thought. . . that if 1 sold enough copies of this little book, Voyage au bout de la nuit, I could go back to my medicine. Louis-Ferdinand Celine As we know, Celine was a public health physician and a hygienist, heir to the hygiene movement of the nineteenth century, who became involved after...

... it be that that un-American, un­ christian, unjust, unethical, ungodly, unrepublican, undemocratic, unrighteous monster called socialized medicine is not as bad as cer­ tain interested groups paint it? A hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago the newspaper editorials and legislative debates on the subject...

..., medicine was in its heroic phase. This meant that patients were subjected to massive bleeding, massive doses of mercury, and, somewhat later, massive purgation. Moreover, in this country many practitioners were ignorant graduates of diploma mills. It might be argued that during this period the proprietors...

...-century American botanists by these authors. Garden s interests and contributions extended beyond medicine and botany. Like most able scientists of his day, he let his curiosity range widely. He was impelled to seek out undescribed plants and animals and new medical treatments and to make accurate obser­...

... that focus on diagnosing and treating specific dis- eases, injuries, or disabilities. Health care also includes the treatment of conditions that could lead to disease (high blood pressure or cholesterol, lack of immunity to infection), usually through the delivery of medicines for each specific...