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UNINA9910451846003321 |
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Finger Simon <1977-> |
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The contagious city [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / / Simon Finger |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
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0-8014-6447-1 |
0-8014-6400-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Public health - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
Communicable diseases - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
Social medicine - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
Philadelphia (Pa.) Politics and government 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemic Constitutions -- 1. "A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man": William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania -- 2. "An Infancy of Government": Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship -- 3. "A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security": Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers -- 4. "A Body Corporate and Politick": Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City -- 5. "Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art": Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement -- 6. "A Fine Field for Professional Improvement": Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War -- 7. "In a Yielding State": Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic -- 8. "Those Friendly Reciprocities": Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever -- 9. "A Matter of Police": Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union -- Conclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia -- Notes -- Index |
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By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to |
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be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine.Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America. |
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UNINA9910253952503321 |
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Healthcare and Big Data Management / / edited by Bairong Shen |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (V, 164 p. 30 illus., 23 illus. in color.) |
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Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, , 0065-2598 ; ; 1028 |
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Bioinformatics |
Molecular biology |
Molecular Medicine |
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Chapter 1 How to become a smart patient in the era of precision medicine? -- Chapter 2 Physiological Informatics: Collection and Analyses of Data from Wearable Sensors and Smartphone for Healthcare -- Chapter 3 Entropy for the Complexity of Physiological Signal Dynamics -- Chapter 4 Data Platform for the Research and Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease -- Chapter 5 Data analysis for gut microbiota and health -- Chapter 6 Ontology-based Vaccine Adverse Event Representation and Analysis -- Chapter 7 LEMRG – decision rule generation algorithm for mining microRNA expression data -- Chapter 8 Privacy Challenges of Genomic Big Data -- Chapter 9 Systems health, a transition from disease management towards health promotion. |
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The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management. Thanks to major advances in big data technologies and precision medicine, healthcare is now becoming the new frontier for both scientific research and economic development. This volume covers a range of aspects, including: big data management for healthcare; physiological and gut microbiota – data collection and analysis; big data standardization and ontology; and personal data privacy and systems level modeling in the healthcare context. The book offers a valuable resource for biomedical informaticians, clinicians, health practitioners and researchers alike. |
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