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Where No Doctor Has Gone Before

By Robert Huish
Subjects: Medical, Social Science, Development Studies, Political Science, Globalization

Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, ...

Babies for the Nation

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Medical, History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among ...

Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution

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

Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale’s work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth ...

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 ...

Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Medical, History Of Medicine
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ...

Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the ...

The One Best Way?

By Aleck Ostry & Tasnim Nathoo
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Child Studies, Medical, Public Health, History Of Medicine
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

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 ...

Florence Nightingale on Wars and the War Office

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume’s recounting of Nightingale’s famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive ...

Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Medical, History Of Medicine, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental ...