In a feminist account, Showalter (1985) also portrayed psychiatry as a history of the colonization and subjugation of women. Homosexuals’ bodies have also been a favored site for experimental twentieth century medical and surgical interventions in which treatment, social control, and punishment goals...
In subject area: Medicine and Dentistry Naturopathy is a distinct school of healing, employing the beneficent agency of Nature's forces, or water, air, sunlight, earthpower, electricity, magnetism, exercise, rest, proper diet, various kinds of mechanical treatment, mental and moral science. ...
13] and changes in age- and sex-adjusted fracture rates have been observed in recent decades, with increases in hip fractures amongst men and vertebral fracture amongst women [14]. Furthermore, the ageing of the UK population will give rise to a doubling in the number of fragility...
The Health Consequences of Smoking — 50 Years of Progress: a Report of the Surgeon General (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Ward, E. et al. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1999–2015, featuring cancer in men and women ages 20–49. J. Natl ...
Sex Cells: Women's Paths to Institutionalization in the Hospital for the Insane, Cobourg, 1902 -1935 Theresa Lynn Raymond Jun 2017 Focussing on twelve womens experiences culled from patient files of the Hospital for the Insane, Cobourg, this thesis interrogates the use and abuse of the alterna...
In the U.S. national and state policies have affected the location and availability of low-income and subsidized housing. Public housing emerged in the late 1930s as a Depression-era public works program and evolved over time into public housing programs serving poorer and increasingly minority ...
Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a treatment first used in the 1980s, has recently re-emerged under the name sodium oxybate, as a treatment of all symptoms of narcolepsy. New approaches including symptomatic neurotransmit- ters and endocrine therapy, hypocretine-based therapies, immune-based therapies, and ...
Women are more commonly affected than men by about 2:1. The initial symptoms of MG can occur in childhood as well as in the elderly. While no age group is spared, the initial onset in females tends to peak in the 3rd decade compared with males in which the onset tends to be most ...
Review: Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America Most provocatively, she finds important continuities between the motivations for the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the mid-1930s and cultural ... CJ Acker - 《Journal of the History of Medicine & ...
Initially used by the indigenous Ojibway people in North America, Canadian nurse Rene Caisse gained notoriety for using the tea to treat cancer patients in the 1920s. She used locally grown herbs and administered it to patients within 48 hours of preparation....