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A History of Prostate Cancer

Cancer, Men and Medicine

By: Helen Valier

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A History of Prostate Cancer

Cancer, Men and Medicine

By: Helen Valier

This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help could be offered for men afflicted with the devastating diseases of the genitourinary organs. This is despite complaints of painful urination from aging men being found in ancient medical manuscripts, despite the anatomical discoveries of the European Renaissance and despite the experimental surgical researches of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. As diseases of the prostate, including prostate cancer, came to be better understood in the early twentieth century, therapeutic nihilism continued as curative radical surgeries and radiotherapy failed. The therapeutic ‘turn’ came with hormonal therapies, itself a product of the explosive growth of U.S. biomedicine from the 1940s onwards. By the 1990s, prostate cancer screening had become a somewhat ubiquitous but controversial feature of the medical encounter for American men as they aged, which greatly influenced the treatment pathways and identity of the male patient: as victim, as hero, and ultimately, as consumer.

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Springer

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1137565950

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9781137565952

A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal

By: Nancy Dunton,Helen Malkin

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A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal

By: Nancy Dunton,Helen Malkin

A fresh look at contemporary architecture in Montreal, featuring 75 noteworthy buildings and public spaces. A resource for both locals and tourists alike, A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal presents seventy-five important projects that reflect architecture's resurgence in the city over the last twenty-five years. A two-page spread is dedicated to each project, with concise descriptive text alongside photos, drawings and floor plans. Projects are presented by quartier or neighbourhood so that the visitor can take a selfguided walking tour. The front and back flaps are folding maps to guide the visitor through the highlighted quartiers. At a time when cultural tourism is burgeoning, this guidebook gives the reader a unique understanding of Montreal. Put it in your pocket, take the metro and go see the city.

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244

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D & M Publishers

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1771621117

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9781771621113

Invisible City

The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth Century Neapolitan Convents

By: Helen Hills

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Invisible City

The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth Century Neapolitan Convents

By: Helen Hills

Invisible City analyzes conventual architecture in terms of the politics of sight, "the optics of power", the relationship between flesh and stone. It uncovers the connections between the bodies of the nuns and the walls that housed them, presenting the architecture of female convents as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic female virgin nun.

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281

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Oxford University Press

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ISBN 10

0195117743

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9780195117745

Caravaggio

By: Helen Langdon

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Caravaggio

By: Helen Langdon

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, Caravaggio was constantly embroiled in fights and entangled with the law; the prototype anti-social artist, he moved between the worlds of powerful patrons and the street life of boys and prostitutes. Helen Langdon uncovers his progress from childhood in plague-ridden Milan to wild success in Rome, and eventual exile and persecution in the South, and sets his work against the political, intellectual and spiritual movements of the day. Fully illustrated, her dramatic portrait shows Carravigio's life to be as sensational and enigmatic as his powerful and enduring art.

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474

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Random House

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1448105714

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9781448105717

Spitting Blood

The History of Tuberculosis

By: Helen Bynum

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Spitting Blood

The History of Tuberculosis

By: Helen Bynum

Few diseases have been more inextricably linked with our past than tuberculosis. The ancient Greeks called it phthisis or consumption, names still familiar in the early twentieth century. They knew that coughing up or spitting of blood were bad signs. Through the Medieval Period to the modern day, Helen Bynum explores the history and development of TB throughout the world, touching on the various discoveries that have emerged about the disease, and focusing on the clinical and experimental approaches of Rene Laennec (1781-1826) and Robert Koch (1842-1910). Therapies included miraculous touching, bleeding, travel, vaccines, sanatoria, open-air therapy, and surgery, although none proved successful. A real cure finally arrived after World War II, with anti-tuberculosis drugs, characterizing a new optimism about science, health, and society. Although concerns about TB faded away in the mid-twentieth century, the disease has now returned with a vengeance. Bynum describes the emerging picture from the World Health Organization of the difficulties in managing new drug-resistant forms of the disease that have established themselves in the developing world, and in poorer parts of large cities worldwide. The story of tuberculosis, it seems, is far from over."--

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349

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Oxford University Press

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0198727518

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The matter of miracles

Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity

By: Helen Hills

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The matter of miracles

Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity

By: Helen Hills

This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.

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742

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Manchester University Press

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1526100398

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9781526100399

A History of Prostate Cancer

Cancer, Men and Medicine

By: Helen Valier

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A History of Prostate Cancer

Cancer, Men and Medicine

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Book's by Helen Valier

A History of Prostate Cancer

A History of Prostate Cancer

A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal

A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal

Invisible City

Invisible City

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Spitting Blood

Spitting Blood

The matter of miracles

The matter of miracles

A History of Prostate Cancer

A History of Prostate Cancer

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