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Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

By: Bruno Halioua,Bernard Ziskind

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Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

By: Bruno Halioua,Bernard Ziskind

Evidence of the medical practice of ancient Egypt has come down to us not only in pictorial art but also in papyrus scrolls, in funerary inscriptions, and in the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptians themselves. Halioua and Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of people from all walks of life.

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Harvard University Press

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0674017021

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9780674017023

Beans, Roots and Leaves

A History of the Chemical Therapy of Parkinsonism

By: Paul Bernard Foley

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A History of the Chemical Therapy of Parkinsonism

By: Paul Bernard Foley

Parkinsonism of various types has long been a debilitating and cruel affliction for significant numbers of people, and even today the cure remains elusive. The present volume explores the colorful and sometimes alarming history of the attempts to provide at least some relief from the symptoms of this disorder, commencing with interesting reports from ancient India and medieval Europe and continuing until the present time. Especial attention is devoted to L-DOPA therapy, still the leading pharmacological approach to the disorder more than forty years after its first application, and its place in the development of neurochemistry. But the employment of solanaceous plant alkaloid-based therapies, which dominated antiparkinsonian therapy until the mid-20th century, and the broad range of other approaches which found varying degrees of popularity, including those stimulated by the encephalitis epidemic which appeared in Europe during the First World War, are also discussed. The author concludes that antiparkinsonian therapy was never 'irrational', but was rather always determined by prevailing medical, pharmacological and scientific paradigms, so that its history is inextricably linked with experimental and clinical developments in these fields.

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934

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Tectum Verlag DE

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3828884962

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9783828884960

The Jewish Law Annual

By: Bernard S. Jackson

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The Jewish Law Annual

By: Bernard S. Jackson

Published under the auspices of The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston U. School of Law. Part One, Parent and Child, contains an introduction followed by ten papers on topics including the law and the relationship between parents and children, the welfare of the child and religious considerations, and physical violence by parents against their children in Jewish history and Jewish law. Part Two, Chronicle, addresses Jewish law in the State of Israel and constricting religious freedom in the US. Part Three comprises a survey of recent literature. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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320

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Taylor & Francis

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3718605465

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9783718605460

On the Eve

The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

By: Bernard Wasserstein

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On the Eve

The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

By: Bernard Wasserstein

On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the brink of annihilation. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.

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578

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Simon and Schuster

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1416594272

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9781416594277

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

By: Bruno Halioua,Bernard Ziskind

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Harvard University Press

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The Jewish Unions in America

Pages of History and Memories

By: Bernard Weinstein

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The Jewish Unions in America

Pages of History and Memories

By: Bernard Weinstein

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.

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154

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Open Book Publishers

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1783743565

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9781783743568

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Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

Beans, Roots and Leaves

Beans, Roots and Leaves

The Jewish Law Annual

The Jewish Law Annual

On the Eve

On the Eve

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

The Jewish Unions in America

The Jewish Unions in America

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