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Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine(1st Edition)
A Life of John Snow
by Peter Vinten-Johansen, Stephen Rachman, Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Michael Russell Rip, David Zuck
Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513544-2, ISBN: 0-19-513544-X

"The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anaesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesising fresh information about his early life from archival research and recent studies. It explores the intellectual roots of his commitments to vegetarianism, temper ..."






The Healer's Power(Updated)
by Howard A. Brody, Howard Brody M.D.
Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1993 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05783-6, ISBN: 0-300-05783-0

"In this provocative new book a philosopher-physician explores issues of medical ethics involved in a physician's use of power. Drawing from literary works dealing with medical power-from Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" to stories by Richard Selzer-Dr. Howard Brody argues that proposals to reduce or eliminate the power of the physician are misguided; instead, guidelines should be developed for the use of medical power so that the phy ..."






Medical Humanities(1st Edition)
An Introduction
by Professor Therese Jones, Professor Delese Wear, Professor Lester D. Friedman, Mark Vonnegut, Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, Michael Sappol, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Rebecca Hester, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Professor Bernice Hausman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani Dasgupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Lisa Keränen, Paul Root Wolpe, Professor Allison B. Kavey, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6246-9, ISBN: 0-8135-6246-5

"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."






Stories of Sickness(Updated)
by Howard Brody M.D., Howard A. Brody
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1990 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-04692-2, ISBN: 0-300-04692-8

"Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of lite ..."






The Placebo Response(1st Edition)
How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health
by Howard T. Brody, Daralyn Brody
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2000 by Harper
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-019493-2, ISBN: 0-06-019493-6






Ethical Decisions in Medicine(2nd Edition)
by Howard Brody, Baruch A. Brody
Paperback, 418 Pages, Published 1981 by Little Brown & Co (T)
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-10899-7, ISBN: 0-316-10899-5






Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel
by Howard Brody
Softcover, Published 2023 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-9505-7, ISBN: 1-5275-9505-6






Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel
by Howard Brody
375 Pages, Published 2021 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-6480-0, ISBN: 1-5275-6480-0

"Bruce F. Murphy described her best-known creation, Dr. Basil Willing, as follows: “Willing is a child of immigrants, a World ... Brett Halliday, McCloy's (by then) ex- husband, penned the introduction to the 1965 collection of her short stories, The  ..."






Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine
Clinical, Conceptual, and Ethical Issues
by Howard Brody
ISBN-13: 978-0-608-20611-0, ISBN: 0-608-20611-3






Health Humanities Reader
by Therese Jones, Delese Wear, Lester D. Friedman, Allen Peterkin, Mark Vonnegut, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Rebecca Hester, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Bernice Hausman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani Dasgupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Allison B. Kavey, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch
448 Pages, Published 2014 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6248-3, ISBN: 0-8135-6248-1

"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."






Dusty
Reflections of Wrestling's American Dream
by Dusty Rhodes, Howard Brody
264 Pages, Published 2012 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-244-8, ISBN: 1-61321-244-5

"Douthit; Janie Engle; Terry Funk; Sheldon Goldberg; “Superstar” Billy Graham; Mike Graham; Senator Richard Green; Jimmy Hart; “Playboy” Gary Hart; Monsignor Laurence Higgins; Sir Oliver Humperdink; Jerry Jarrett; Wanda Jenkins; Connie Jones; Paul Jones; Nikita Koloff; Captain Lewis; Dean Miller; Black Jack Mulligan; Michael O'Brien; Rikki Nelson; “Diamond” Dallas Page; Reggie Parks; David Qualls; Harley Race; Nickla Roberts; Randy ..."






The Placebo Response
How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health
by Howard Brody, Daralyn Brody
336 Pages, Published 2011 by Harper Collins
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-201355-2, ISBN: 0-06-201355-6

"How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health Howard Brody, Daralyn Brody ... Janice M. Kiecolt-Glaser and Robert Glaser, “ Psychoneuroimmunology and Health Consequences: Data and Shared Mechanisms,” ... I was assisted in preparing this section by teaching materials provided by my colleague at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, Dr. Kathryn Lovell."






Developing Clinicians' Career Pathways in Narrative and Relationship-Centered Care(1st Edition)
Footprints of Clinician Pioneers
by Lura L. Pethtel, John D. Engel, M.D. Zarconi Joseph, Lenore M. Buckley, Rita Charon, Julie Connelly, Jack Coulehan, Sayantani Dasgupta, Cortney Davis, Howard Brody
Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2011 by Crc Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84619-573-0, ISBN: 1-84619-573-X

"'Today, there exists a robust body of work connecting narrative theory and practice with medical theory, practice, teaching, and research. Taken together, what is particularly interesting about these works is that they portray narrative healthcare as both a philosophy of care and a set of skills - ' John D Engel, Lura L Pethtel and Joseph Zarconi, in the Preface This inspiring collection of narrative portraits details the career paths ..."






Tennis Science for Tennis Players
by Howard Brody
160 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-0146-8, ISBN: 0-8122-0146-9

"There is a famous advertisement in many tennis magazines that points out that the ball never touches that very expensive, hightech tennis racket. The ball only touches the strings. That is why this book will start by discussing the strings. 1.1 Strings and Stringing What tension should you string your racket at? Should it be 50 pounds? Or 55? Or 62? Or 73? How can you determine what tension is optimum for a racket, a style of play, ..."






Swimming with Piranhas
Surviving the Politics of Professional Wrestling
by Howard Brody
Published 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-55490-867-7, ISBN: 1-55490-867-1






The Future of Bioethics
by Howard Brody
272 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-045216-2, ISBN: 0-19-045216-1

"BMJ 318:253–6, 1999. Jones JW, McCullough LB, Richman BW. Ethics of boutique medical practice. J Vasc Surg 39:1354–5, 2004. Jonsen AR. Ethics, the law, and the treatment of seriously ill newborns. In: Doudera AE, Peters JD, eds. Legal and ethical aspects of treating critically and terminally ill patients. Ann Arbor, MI: AUPHA Press, 1982:236–41. Jonsen AR. Watching the doctor. N Engl J Med 308:15315, 1983. Jonsen AR Beating up bioe ..."






The Future of Bioethics
by Howard Brody
272 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-970328-9, ISBN: 0-19-970328-0

"whose chair, Ian McWhinney, is one of the most philosophically well-read leaders of academic family medicine. McWhinney had for a long time been interested in the initial, “real” reasons patients came to see the doctor, as distinct from the diagnoses made by the physician at the conclusion of the encounter. Among the younger faculty he recruited to his department were many whose major interest was in quantitative research and educa ..."






Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
A Life of John Snow: A Life of John Snow
by Nigel Paneth, Peter Vinten-Johansen, Howard Brody, Stephen Rachman, Michael Rip, David Zuck
456 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974788-7, ISBN: 0-19-974788-1

"For a while it looked as if the little girl was going to do better, but then she had a bout of diarrhea in June. Dr. William R. Rogers of Berners Street treated her, and she was better after about five days. This morning Mrs. Lewis had to send for Dr. Rogers again. The same diarrhea was back, he said—pale or green, slimy, watery, offensive-smelling stools. Now the baby was also vomiting, unable to keep down food or medicine.1 The L ..."






Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
A Life of John Snow
by Peter Vinten-Johansen, Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, Michael Rip, David Zuck
456 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-028563-0, ISBN: 0-19-028563-X

"BIHR, PR HUN 6, cited in Galbraith, JSEY, 18. A signature is a vague indicator of literacy, but “it is usually taken to show the ability to read fluently and to write laboriously”; Digby and Searby, Children, School and Society, 3. 10. Sims, “ Family history”; Leaman, “John Snow MD,” 803; S. Snow, JSEMP, 23. However, a search of the marriage register covering 1750 to 1812 for All Saints North Street by Ms. Davison of BIHR found no e ..."






Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
A Life of John Snow
by Howard Brody, Stephen Rachman, Nigel Paneth, Peter Vinten-Johansen, Michael Rip
Published 2003
ISBN-13: 978-1-280-53095-1, ISBN: 1-280-53095-2



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