Science & medicine [[electronic resource] /] / James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editors

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 975.003
• Soggetto topico: Science - Southern States; Medicine - Southern States
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Social conditions Encyclopedias
• Altri autori: ThomasJames G (James George) WilsonCharles Reagan
• Note generali: "Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."; "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; SCIENCE AND MEDICINE; Abortion; Aerospace; Agriculture, Scientific; Alcohol and Alcoholism; American Indian Health and Medicine; Childbirth, Antebellum; Civil War Medicine; Climate and Weather; Drug Use; Education, Medical; Environmental Health; Eugenics; Folk Medicine; Gender and Health; Healers, Women; Health, African American; Health, Mental; Health, Public; Health, Rural; Health, Worker; Maternal and Child Health, Urban; Medical Care, Public Health, and Race; Medical Centers ; Medical Science, Racial Ideology, and Practice, to ReconstructionMedicine, States' Rights; Obesity; Physicians, African American; Poverty, Effects of; Professionalization of Science; Racialized Medicine; Racism, Scientific; Science and Religion (Evolution vs. Creationism); Slavery and Medicine; Slaves in Medical Education and Medical Experiments; Surgeons General; Technological Education; Technology; Urban Health Conditions; Barnard, Frederick A. P.; Cancer Alley (Louisiana); Carver, George Washington; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Country Doctor; Creation Science; DDT ; DeBakey, MichaelFaith Healing; Frontier Nursing Service; Garden, Alexander; Geophagia and Pica; Guyton, Arthur C.; Hardy, James D.; Herty, Charles Holmes; HIV/AIDS; Hookworm; Hoxsey Therapy; Influenza Epidemic of 1918; LeConte, John and Joseph; Leprosy; Lewis, Henry Clay; Long, Crawford W.; Malaria; Maury, Matthew Fontaine; McDowell, Ephraim; Medical Committee for Human Rights; Medical Museums; Medicine Shows and Patent Medicines; Meharry Medical College; Moore, Samuel Preston; Pellagra; Poteat, William Louis; Reed, Walter; Research Triangle Park; Ruffin, Edmund ; St. Jude Children's Research HospitalSavannah River Site; Scopes Trial; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sims, J. Marion; Slave Hospitals; Tuskegee Syphilis Study (United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study); Whitfield (Mississippi State Hospital); Yellow Fever.
• Titolo autorizzato: Science & medicine
• ISBN: 1-4696-0143-5; 0-8078-3743-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786445003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; ; v. 22.