Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease ...

Long Night’s Journey into Day

By Charles G. Roland
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Military History

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity.
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The Perils of Patient Government

By J. McKay, J.R. Bayne, J.Z. Csank, and Joseph W. Lella
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Medical

In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that “once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration,” a phenomenon that has not escapted ...

Biomedical Ethics and Fetal Therapy

Edited by Carl Nimrod & Glenn Griener
Subjects: Philosophy, Medical

“Over the last two decades, medical researchers have become more comfortable with the idea that serious attention must be given to ethical issues when the tests of new technologies are being designed. ...

Doctors, Patients, and Society

Edited by Donald E. Larsen & Martin S. Staum
Subjects: Medical, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Science

What moral and legal issues are involved in the physician-patient relationship? What is bioethics? What social and environmental factors are involved in health and disease? An interdisciplinary workshop ...