British Medical Journal Publishing GroupBMJdoi:10.1136/bmj.326.7389.606ReviewbyBoleslavL.LichtermanGrob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Gerald Grob's history of disease in the United States echoes this assumption. He writes, “In our modern Western culture we have grown accustomed to the belief that all things are possible and that humans can completely control their destiny.” But such faith “is at best harmless and at ...
The second provides an overview of venereal disease in America before the twentieth century. Both chapters explain the historiography, detail changing medical treatments, and show how policies and beliefs shifted over the course of long sweeps of time. The next three chapters examine the ways that ...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
The Deadly Truth: a History of Disease in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article) The series gives a history of women's achievement in America examines the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories. G Kay - 《History Review of New Books》 被引量: 0发表: ...
In America, and especially in the nineteenth century, the idea that God speaketh rather than spake, and that he might be dissenting from the reputable clergy, would inspire a host of enthusiastic prophets and religious movements, notably including the young Joseph Smith and his Latter-Day Saints...
History of Pandemics in Latin America 本文重新审视了围绕该地区三大流行病的学术成果:(a) 第三次鼠疫大流行;(b) 20 世纪 80 年代的艾滋病毒/艾滋病;(c) COVID-19。这篇文章旨在以四种语言(葡萄牙语、西班牙语、英语和法语)提供一套全面的资源(包括印刷版和数字版),以研究学者们是如何对待这些现象的,以及...
Edited volume that takes a non-traditional approach to the history of medicine in Latin America, and emphasizes the cultural and social construction of disease.
Shock, disease, and suicide were responsible for the deaths of at least one-sixth during the crossing. In the West Indies the survivors were “seasoned”—taught the rudiments of English and drilled in the routines and discipline of plantation life....
America(present-dayMexicoandCentral America; sometimes called Mesoamerica), andSouth America. This article is a survey of the culture areas, prehistories, histories, and recent developments of the Indigenous peoples andculturesof the United States and Canada. Some of the terminology used in reference...