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Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns about the state of civilization versus that of nature, about the effects of consumption upon the identities of individuals and nations, and about the proper form and practice of scholarship. En route, Spary devotes extensive attention to the manufacture, trade, and eating of foods, focusing upon coffee and liqueurs in particular, and also considers controversies over specific issues such as the chemistry of digestion and the nature of alcohol. Familiar figures such as Fontenelle, Diderot, and Rousseau appear alongside little-known individuals from the margins of the world of letters: the draughts-playing café owner Charles Manoury, the “Turkish envoy” Soliman Aga, and the natural philosopher Jacques Gautier d’Agoty. Equally entertaining and enlightening, Eating the Enlightenment will be an original contribution to discussions of the dissemination of knowledge and the nature of scientific authority.

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Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898 PDF

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"[I]t is surprising to learn in this ethnographic account by a US medical anthropologist that the Castro government has apparently been cooking the books... Her [Hirschfeld's] idealistic preconceptions dashed by discrepancies between rhetoric and reality,' she observes a repressive, bureaucratized and secretive system, long on militarization' and short on patients' rights, with state-employed family doctors' responsible not only for health but also for exposing political dissent... [T]he author, resorting to historical documents, concludes that the regime did foster public health gains after 1959, but concomitantly manipulated both health statistics and the impact of earlier US involvement in Cuba to highlight the 1959 revolution's alleged successes. A revealing and persuasive glimpse into public health under socialism. Highly recommended."

—Choice

"An exceptionally informative and original study of public health in Cuba that encompasses both its historical dimensions and the developments under Castro...This volume also provides a revealing grass roots portrait of Cuban society that benefits from the author's extensive personal contacts and experiences during her stay there."

—Paul Hollander, author of Political Pilgrims, Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society

"Health, Politics and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898 is a reflection of a new generation of courageous, fact-based researchers who validate that eclectic qualitative/quantitative comparative anthropological techniques can be mighty effective--when objectively implemented--for deconstructing a closed society's crafty propaganda. In sum, this tome is exemplary science making in the best Millian-Popperian tradition with implications transcending ever-growing Cubanology."

—Cuban Affairs

"When Hirschfeld (anthropology, U. of Oklahoma) began the project that was to become this book, it was intended to be simply an ethnographic account on the socialization of health and medicine in socialist Cuba. After being hospitalized in Cuba following coming down with dengue fever during an epidemic that the government initially denied, however, her newfound skepticism regarding the reliability of official figures and accounts of Cuba's health system led her towards a more historically-oriented investigation of the politics of health in pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba (although the experiences of her fieldwork and hospitalization are also discussed in some detail) This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 2006."

—SciTech Book News

“Part ethnography (conducted in 1997), part historical analysis. Highly critical of common academic assessments of Cuban health system; questions the veracity of Cuban health statistics.”

—Family Medicine

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"[Health, Politics and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898] is a reflection of a new generation of courageous, fact-based researchers who validate that eclectic qualitative/quantitative comparative anthropological techniques can be mighty effective--when objectively implemented--for deconstructing a closed society's crafty propaganda. In sum, this tome is exemplary science making in the best Millian-Popperian tradition with implications transcending ever-growing Cubanology.

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Thankfully this book holds no dry academic wringing of statistics (what there are in Cuba are suspect), nor is this a puff-piece written by a naive visitor shepherded to inauthentic clinics-for-show or to hospitals for foreigners or the ruling elite. The fascinating heart of this book is the year Dr. Hirschfeld spent in Cuba under the radar as a simple visitor. She arrived in Cuba anticipating confirmation of the prevailing academic view that life and health care under the Marxist system was a model of excellence. She soon experienced an epiphany as she witnessed the reality of living under the Castro regime: widespread shortages, petty humiliations, harassments, official doublespeak, and, contrary to expectations, woefully poor health care for common citizens. This was not merely an impression: she became ill (only later did she learn she had contracted dengue fever) and was whisked away to an isolation ward in which she and other women suffering from the painful disease (also called break-bone fever) were kept as virtual prisoners. They received no diagnosis, no medication, and lived under conditions unimaginable in first-world nations. Despite her suffering, the author will no doubt long remember the tribulations, camaraderie, good humor, and indomitable spirit of the workaday Cuban patients suffering alongside her. She, and the world, later learned there had been a widespread epidemic of dengue though it had been denied by the regime. The reality was leaked by a courageous Cuban physician who was jailed for revealing the truth.

The second half of the book is a revisionist history of twentieth century health care in Cuba "intended to critique the conventional portrayal . . . by the Castro regime and by Marxist scholars in the United States.

Statistics for Research: With a Guide to SPSS PDF

Rating: (5 reviews) Author: George Argyrous ISBN : 9781849205955 New from $21.94 Format: PDF

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This fully updated edition of Statistics for Research explains statistical concepts in a straight-forward and accessible way using practical examples from a variety of disciplines. If you’re looking for an easy-to-read, comprehensive introduction to statistics with a guide to SPSS, this is the book for you!

 

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this review is about the book and not the seller. i found this book easy to understand and would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn the concepts and the application of statistics. the examples are great and the author introduces the topics in a logical and lucid manner. the flow of thought is easy to grasp and complex statistical tools are explained in a way that appeals to your common sense while retaining a strong foundation on the 'basics'. in real life business situations i have found this book to be a helpful guide.
i am surprised this book has not received more reviews and has a less than 5 star rating. this possibly has to do with the experience people have had with this particular seller.

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This guide is excellent in providing a step by step process in understanding complex statistical functions and tests for research. It is easy to read and understand, and makes research fun! Even though its directed towards SPSS, I always refer to the guide to clarify my statistical doubts and to guide me further in research planning/process/methodology. Must buy for students, researchers and teachers/lecturers.

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The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany PDF

Rating: Author: Barbara Duden ISBN : 9780674954045 New from $15.68 Format: PDF

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In this study the author asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms we use to describe our own bodies - male and female, healthy or sick - are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Barbara Duden delves into the records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words. This record of complaints, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments reveals an alien understanding of the female body and its functions.

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Times and Tides of Tuberculosis: Perceptions Revealed in Literature, Keats to Sontag PDF

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Thomas M. Daniel, M. D. is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and International Health at Case Western Reserve University and Honorary Physician at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Daniel's clinical activities have focused on respiratory infections, and he is a widely recognized expert in tuberculosis. He has devoted the years of his retirement to medical history, publishing five academic books in this area. Dr. Daniel is a fellow or member of major professional societies in the fields of respiratory medicine and infectious diseases. He lives in Hudson, Ohio with his wife, Janet.

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Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America PDF

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America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the complex relations among the producers, providers, and consumers of medicine in modern America.

The tale of the prescription is one of constant struggles over and changes in medical and therapeutic authority. Stakeholders across the biomedical enterprise have alternately upheld and resisted, supported and critiqued, and subverted and transformed the power of the prescription. Who prescribes? What do they prescribe? How do they decide what to prescribe? These questions set a society-wide agenda that changes with the times and profoundly shifts the medical landscape. Examining drugs individually, as classes, and as part of the social geography of health care, contributors to this volume explore the history of prescribing, including over-the-counter contraceptives, the patient’s experience of filling opioid prescriptions, restraints on physician autonomy in prescribing antibiotics, the patient package insert, and other regulatory issues in medicine during postwar America.

The first authoritative look at the history of the prescription itself, Prescribed is a groundbreaking book that subtly explores the politics of therapeutic authority and the relations between knowledge and practice in modern medicine.

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