Desigualdades en un mundo postpandemia

Este libro titulado Desigualdades en un mundo postpandemia: exploraciones sobre migraciones, mercados de trabajo y género, presenta un conjunto de propuestas y debates necesarios para repensar las políticas públicas y laborales, con enfoques que favorezcan la equidad de género y el respeto a los derechos humanos de los migrantes desde una visión tanto local como global.

Public Health in European Capitals: Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen

Sir Thomas Morison Legge dedicated his life to public health, especially for the working person who might be exposed to toxins, especially anthrax and lead poisoning. He was born in Hong Kong in 1863, and went on to get his MD from Oxford in 1894. In 1898, Legge was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom, and he served in that role until 1926. The year prior, he was knighted in the 1925 New Year Honours.

Florida: Its Scenery, Climate, and History: with an Account of Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and Aiken and a Chapter For Consumptives

Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) wrote this account of Florida. Of it he stated, “The newspapers have abounded with communications from clever correspondents who have done the State in a week or two; the magazinists have chatted very pleasantly of St. Augustine and the Indian River country; and there are half a dozen guide-books giving more or less details of the routes, hotels, and principal stopping-points. But it is not in clever newspaper paragraphs, it is not in chatty magazine papers, it is not in guide-books written while the cars are running, that the enormous phenomenon of Florida is to be disposed of. There are at least claims here which reach into some of the deepest needs of modern life.”

Una brújula para la crisis: México: Lecciones derivadas del COVID-19

by GC Genera, Compiled by Daniel Tapia Quintana (Comprar color) Purchase full color  |   Comprar escala de gris (Purchase grayscale) La pandemia COVID-19 ha implicado grandes cambios para las sociedades y los países a nivel mundial. México no ha sido la excepción. Los desafíos que tendrá que enfrentar son múltiples y complejos. La pandemia ha… Continue reading Una brújula para la crisis: México: Lecciones derivadas del COVID-19

Managing Challenges for the Flint Water Crisis

Edited by Toyna E. Thornton, Andrew D. Williams, Katherine M. Simon, Jennifer F. Sklarew  Purchase The field of emergency and crisis management covers countless natural and human-induced hazards as well high threats. Focusing events occur at every level of governance; however, it is at the local level in which the ‘rubber’ response efforts meets the… Continue reading Managing Challenges for the Flint Water Crisis

The Mysteries of the Head and Heart Explained: A Look at Phrenology and Mesmerism

by J. Stanley Grimes Purchase through Amazon  James Stanley Grimes was born in Boston on May 10, 1807. Although he wrote a tremendous amount, little is known about him personally. He married Frances Warner in 1832, but never remarried after she passed away in 1848. He graduated from Union College in 1840, went on to… Continue reading The Mysteries of the Head and Heart Explained: A Look at Phrenology and Mesmerism

Epidemic Cholera: The Mission and Mystery, Haunts and Havocs, Pathology and Treatment

by A Former Surgeon in the Service of the Honorable East India Company Purchase through Amazon  Epidemic cholera is truly awful. Cholera causes violent cramps, vomiting and diarrhea that are so frequent and serious that the body will quickly dehydrate. A person infected with cholera can die within a few hours because the dehydration can… Continue reading Epidemic Cholera: The Mission and Mystery, Haunts and Havocs, Pathology and Treatment

Resilient Hospitals Handbook: Strengthening Healthcare and Public Health Resilience in Advance of a Prolonged and Widespread Power Outage

by Charles “Chuck” Manto, Earl Motzer PhD, James Terbush MD Purchase through Amazon  A number of high-impact threats to critical infrastructure can result in a regional or nationwide months-long power outage, making it unlikely for timely outside help to arrive. Hospitals are encouraged to gain the capacity to make and store enough power on-site to… Continue reading Resilient Hospitals Handbook: Strengthening Healthcare and Public Health Resilience in Advance of a Prolonged and Widespread Power Outage

Popular Guide to Homeopathy for Family and Private Use

by Smith & Worthington Purchase through Amazon  Many homeopathic guides have been created over time. This particular work is compiled from the standard works of Pulte, Laurie, Hempel, Ruddock, Burt, Verdi, and others, in order to offer twenty-eight homoeopathic remedies. Many quacks, charlatans and snake oil salesmen have roamed the world, claiming medical knowledge. This… Continue reading Popular Guide to Homeopathy for Family and Private Use

Drinking-Water and Ice Supplies and Their Relations to Health and Disease: Filtration in the 1900s

by T. Mitchell Prudden MD Purchase through Amazon  Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849-1924) wrote numerous medical books, focusing on rather mundane aspects of life and their connection to health, such as Story of the Bacteria (1889) and Dust and its Dangers (1891). Prudden was born in Connecticut and studied at Yale where he received his MD… Continue reading Drinking-Water and Ice Supplies and Their Relations to Health and Disease: Filtration in the 1900s

Growing Inequality: Bridging Complex Systems, Population Health, and Health Disparities

Editors: George A. Kaplan, Ana V. Diez Roux, Carl P. Simon, and Sandro Galea No single factor—but a system of intertwined causes — explains why America’s health is poorer than the health of other wealthy countries and why health inequities persist despite our efforts. Teasing apart the relationships between these many causes to find solutions… Continue reading Growing Inequality: Bridging Complex Systems, Population Health, and Health Disparities

The Early History of Surgery in Great Britain: Its Organization and Development

by G. Parker MA Purchase through Amazon  G. Parker writes with authority and grace as he examines the early history of surgery. He begins at roughly the year 1000 and ends in 1850, highlighting what was then modern practice. As do other medical historians, he finds that the gruesome aftermath of military interventions often push… Continue reading The Early History of Surgery in Great Britain: Its Organization and Development

Poverty in America: Urban and Rural Inequality and Deprivation in the 21st Century

Max J. Skidmore Purchase through Amazon Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America’s general level of prosperity along with a fairly widespread notion that conditions inevitably are better in the USA than elsewhere. Political rhetoric frequently enforces such an erroneous notion: “the poor live better in America than… Continue reading Poverty in America: Urban and Rural Inequality and Deprivation in the 21st Century

Stories from the Diary of a Doctor: Snippets of Early Medicine and Life in England

by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax MD Purchase through Amazon  Clifford Halifax was actually the pseudonym of Edgar Beaumont (1860-1921). Interestingly, he used this name only when writing with L. T. Meade. Beaumont was indeed a physician operating in the UK and wrote a variety of works related to being a physician, including This… Continue reading Stories from the Diary of a Doctor: Snippets of Early Medicine and Life in England

Florence Nightingale: The Wounded Soldier’s Friend

by Eliza F. Pollard Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. The Nightingale Museum in London includes such curiosities as the lantern she carried on her rounds to the wounded during the Crimean War, more than a thousand of her letters, and her pet owl,… Continue reading Florence Nightingale: The Wounded Soldier’s Friend

Bulwarks Against Poverty in America

by Max J. Skidmore Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace In Bulwarks Against Poverty in America, long-time Social Security scholar Max J. Skidmore presents seminal articles selected from the journal Poverty and Public Policy to clear away much of the confusion dominating pubic discussion relating to Social Security, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. Experts… Continue reading Bulwarks Against Poverty in America

Conflicts in Health Policy

Edited by Bonnie Stabile, Introduced by Randy S. Clemons & Mark K. McBeth When conflicts arise in health policy, the insights of policy scholars can contribute to crafting solutions to seemingly intractable problems.   Beyond their mere technical attributes, health and medical policy issues require political acumen and policy knowledge to diagnose problems, inform debate, and devise… Continue reading Conflicts in Health Policy

Homeopathy: B.F. Bittinger’s Historical Sketch of Washington’s Hahnemann Monument 

Purchase through Amazon One of the more imposing monuments in Washington is not to a general or to a congressman but to a leader in the homeopathic movement. One may wonder whether homeopathic remedies are effective; there is not an iota of proof that the promises the movement makes are ever kept, but homeopathic systems… Continue reading Homeopathy: B.F. Bittinger’s Historical Sketch of Washington’s Hahnemann Monument