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Perspectives on Twentieth-century Pharmaceuticals
One of the most striking features of the twentieth century has been the rapid growth of the pharmaceutical industry and the large increases in the use and consumption of its products. This trend began in the first half of the century, but accelerated most sharply after the Second World War, when the creation of national systems of healthcare created mass markets for drugs. The industry then assumed a major economic, social and political significance, and became one of the most highly regulated sectors of the economy, attracting the attention of industry analysts as well as academics. This volume brings together a collection of papers exploring and reflecting upon some of the significant strands in the current studies of pharmaceuticals in the twentieth century. They touch upon many of the issues that are matters of concern and debate today, and their international and multidisciplinary approaches enrich our understanding of an object, of an industry, and of a process that are at the heart of our highly medicalized contemporary societies.
History of Human Genetics
Written by 30 authors from all over the world, this book provides a unique overview of exciting discoveries and surprising developments in human genetics over the last 50 years. The individual contributions, based on seven international workshops on the history of human genetics, cover a diverse range of topics, including the early years of the discipline, gene mapping and diagnostics. Further, they discuss the status quo of human genetics in different countries and highlight the value of genetic counseling as an important subfield of medical genetics.
Understanding Healthcare Information
In an age of internet resource guides, which suffer from the malaise of being outdated before they are published, this much-needed publication addresses the information chain in its entirety, offering a timeless method of understanding healthcare information resources. The author takes a holistic approach in her consideration of healthcare information, with the aim of building an overall understanding of it within the information society. The text analyses the domain of healthcare information, its organizational structures and history, and the nature of its resources and the drivers for change affecting them. It looks at examples of healthcare information resources from the perspective of di...
Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach
The field of health is an increasingly complex and technical one; and an area in which a more multidisciplinary approach would undoubtedly be beneficial in many ways. This book presents papers from the conference ‘Health – Exploring Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach’, held in Munich, Germany, from August 28th to September 2nd 2016. This joint conference unites the conferences of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), the International Epidemiological Association - European Region, and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). These societies already have long-standing e...
Consumption Challenged
In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to help solve a broad array of societal problems. This tendency is particularly clear in the field of food consumption, owing to the fact that food is both materially and symbolically central for consumers in everyday life as well as for large scale institutionalized dynamics. In order to shed light on the challenges facing food consumption, this volume takes an innovative theoretical approach, presenting four empirical Danish case studies which are compared with other analyses drawn from the wider international context. Consumption Challenged will appeal not only to sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, but also to policy makers and researchers in the fields of geography, communication, media, governance and social psychology.
Ergonomics in Asia: Development, Opportunities and Challenges
For the past decade, the rapid development of the ergonomics disciplines as well as the fast growing economy in the Asian region have been attracting the attention of the international ergonomics community. Although East Asia has been changing from a traditional agriculture-oriented society into a modern industry-oriented society and its economy covers a great deal of shared interests across the continents, yet the ergonomics related knowledge and practice are still in its infancy. Because of the geographic proximity and a strong historical, cultural and technology affinity, it is vitally important to maintain good communication and cooperation among the individuals as well as among the ergo...
Public Understanding of Science
A forum for the emerging interdisciplinary field of public understanding of science, this journal encourages open debate of contrasting and even conflicting viewpoints on all aspects of the interrelationships between science and the public.
De machinemens
"Door de eeuwen heen gebruiken mensen beelden of metaforen om het menselijk lichaam te begrijpen. Vanaf de late middeleeuwen raakte het beeld van de mens als machine in zwang. De metafoor diende om de werking van het lichaam te kunnen begrijpen. De vermeende overeenkomsten hielpen de medische kennis vooruit: de mens was een machine, de hersenen een complex van biologische mechanismen, de psyche een motor die stoom af kon blazen. De machinemetafoor bepaalde ook de richting waarin het medische onderzoek zich ontwikkelde. Tot ver in de moderne tijd beïnvloedt de metafoor het denken over de verhouding tussen lichaam en geest, natuur en cultuur. In 'De machinemens' schildert filosoof Nel van den Haak de rijkdom en kracht van de machinemetafoor voor het denken over mens, ziekte en gezondheid. Gebaseerd op veel historische bronnen."--Cover.
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إن الذكريات في بعض الأحيان لا تكتسب معناها إلا خلال سنوات لاحقة من العمر. فحينما كنت طالباً جامعياً، اعتدت أن أعمل في عطلات نهاية الأسبوع في دارٍ للمسنين. وكانت إحدى مسؤولياتي هي نقل عربة الخبز: بحلول نهاية فترة ما بعد الظهرظن كنت قد انتهيت من جولتي على الغرف، أنا ومساعد الأشخاص المسنين، حيث كنا نقوم بتوصيل الوجبة اليومية الباردة. فإذا ما كان هناك شخص معاق إعاقةً بصريةً أو كان يعاني م...
