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Record Nr.

UNISA996211209503316

Titolo

The encyclopedia of ecology & environmental management [[electronic resource] /] / editor-in-chief, Peter Calow ; editorial board, D.A. Falk ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 1998

ISBN

0-86542-838-7

9780632063416

0-632-06341-6

9780865428387

1-282-37159-2

9786612371592

1-4443-1325-8

1-4443-1324-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (833 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CalowPeter

FalkDonald A

Disciplina

363.7

363.7003

577

Soggetti

Environmental management

Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; How to Use the Encyclopedia; The Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management; color plates

Sommario/riassunto

The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management addresses the core definitions and issues in pure and applied ecology. It is neither a short entry dictionary nor a long entry encyclopedia, but lies somewhere in between. The mixture of short entry definitions and long entry essays gives a comprehensive and up-to-date alphabetical guide to over 3000 topics, and allows any subject to be accessed to varying levels of detail; while the longer entries provide general reviews of



subjects, the short definitions provide specific details on more specialised areas. An important feature of

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783273403321

Autore

Bloom Samuel William <1921-2006, >

Titolo

The word as scalpel : a history of medical sociology / / Samuel W. Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-19-774350-1

0-19-802364-2

1-4175-8757-1

1-280-48198-6

9786610481989

1-4237-3533-1

0-19-534886-9

1-60256-467-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

306.461

306.4610973

Soggetti

Social medicine - United States - History

Sociology - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: PART I. Medical Sociology before 1940 --1. The Origins: Medicine as Social Science, Public Health, -- and Social Medicine 11 -- 2. American Sociology before 1920: From Social Advocacy to -- Academic Legitimacy 23 -- 3. Between the World Wars 39 -- 4. The University of Chicago 63 -- 5. Regional and Intellectual Influences 83 --PART II. Medical Sociology, 1940-1980 --6. First Steps toward Social Identity: Effects of the War and -- Its Aftermath on Medical Sociology 111 -- 7. Postwar Medical Sociology:



The Founders at Major -- Universities, 1945-1960 131 -- 8. The Role of NIMH, 1946-1975 155 -- 9. Becoming a Profession: The Role of the Private -- Foundations 181 -- 10. From Ad Hoc Committee to Professional Association: The -- Section on Medical Sociology, 1955-1980 215 --PART III. The Current Status of Medical Sociology --11. An Era of Change, 1980-2000 247 --Notes 285 --Index 335.

Sommario/riassunto

A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel. In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human relations, are so potent for harm, how equally powerful they can be to help if used with disciplined knowledge and understanding. Nowhere does this simple truth apply more certainly than in the behavior of a physician. Medical Sociology studies the full social context of health and disease, the int