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Scarification: Harmful cultural practice or vehicle to …

WEBYet scarification has its dangers: local wound infections, hepatitis B and C, HIV, and septicemia. 38 Despite its many risks, …

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Health, wellness, and their determinants

WEBJohn Snow is often referred to as the father of modern epidemiology. His work is certainly worthy of this 1 and present-day …

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White Australia: How white healthcare has affected …

WEBPhoto by author. Australian healthcare is among the best, and Australia boasts the eighth lowest mortality rates in the world. 1 For Indigenous Australians, however, health outcomes are 2.3 times worse …

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Teaching social determinants of health through art

WEBThe World Health Organization defines SDH as the “conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, along with the wider set of forces and …

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Quinine and global health

WEBQuinine was the mainstay of malaria treatment until the 1920s, when more effective synthetic antimalarials became available. Even at therapeutic doses, quinine is …

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Joseph Goldberger: epidemiology’s unsung hero

WEBJoseph Goldberger was born July 16, 1874 to sheep herders near Girált in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Abandoning their homeland after disease ravaged …

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Public health measures derived from the Jewish tradition: II.

WEBHand-washing as a current public health measure. Hand washing with soap is currently the single most effective and inexpensive way to prevent the spread of …

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Death, disease, and discrimination during the construction of the

WEBDespite public health regulations applied by health authorities such as sewage disposal, potable water, and wearing of shoes, intestinal parasites were …

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Mental health in Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic and the

WEBIn The Birth of the Clinic, Michel Foucault traces the history of our present-day understanding of disease.One of the most significant and more recent problems this …

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Medicine in Greek mythology

WEBJMS PearceHull, England, UK Some of the earliest ideas about health and disease lie in Greek mythology. The Greeks of prehistory told, retold, and often remoulded their tales of immortal gods and …

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Public health measures derived from the Jewish tradition

WEBThe very first public health measure in recorded human history could well be the description in the Torah of how to deal safely with lepers and other people with …

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The feast of health: the Christian legacy of Hygeia

WEBPeter Paul Rubens, Oil Painting, Hygeia-Goddess of Health, 1615. Figure 7. Gustav Klimt “Hygeia” (Detail from Medicine, University of Vienna), 1900-1907. WILSON …

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Robert Louis Stevenson and hereditary hemorrhagic …

WEBAs his health continued to decline, he developed strong relationships with local physicians, on whom he lavished praise, in particular for a naval surgeon who attended to the Samoan people of Apia, and to …

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Sir John Pringle, public health and military medicine pioneer

WEBSir John Pringle died in 1782 and was buried in the church of St. James, Westminster. In his memory a monument was erected in Westminster Abbey, and there …

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The beginnings of humane psychiatry: Pinel and the Tukes

WEBIn 1792 Pinel married Jeanne Vincent. They had two sons: Charles, a lawyer, and Scipion, who followed his father becoming a physician in mental health. Jeanne …

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Revisiting the “Trolley Problem” in the COVID-19 pandemic

WEBThis scenario prompts discussions that weave together different ethical frameworks such as utilitarianism, non-maleficence, and justice. 1 It has been applied to situations in public health, 2, 3 highlighting the inherent tensions in forced decisions that affect several lives. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique landscape in which to …

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Disciplinary architecture: prison design and prisoners’ health

WEBA health-promoting prison need not be more costly than prisons for which security is the prime consideration, and security and health considerations are not …

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s last illness

WEBOn March 27, 1944, Dr. Bruenn found FDR to be cyanotic, breathless, with rales in his lungs, left ventricular enlargement, a booming aortic sound, a blowing apical …

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Monet’s illnesses: Beyond cataracts

WEBOn the other hand, life for Monet was not one continuous blooming garden. At one time or another, he suffered financially, physically, and mentally. Most readers are …

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The medical journey of Charles Dickens

WEBThe medical journey of Charles Dickens. Lea Mendes. Lisboa, Portugal. Scrooge confronts Ignorance and Want in A Christmas Carol. Illustration by John Leech. …

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Philosophy of science and medicine series — II: Galen vs.

WEBHealth is enjoyed when the four humors are in perfect harmony, being perfectly mingled and duly proportioned to one another in respect to compounding, …

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The creation of Tennessee Williams’ Blanche Dubois: A …

WEBFIZZAH ALI, (NIHR), is a National Institute for Health Researcher, funded Academic Clinical Fellow in neurology based at the Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, …

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