The Sickness of Civilization
Author | : Radhakamal Mukerjee |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Civilization |
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Author | : Radhakamal Mukerjee |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Civilization |
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Author | : Adrienne Rose Bitar |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2018-01-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813589665 |
Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it’s not calories—but concepts—that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the “Fall of Man” as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. Bitar reads each diet—the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet—as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. Diet and the Disease of Civilization unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world.
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Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Brian Inglis |
Publisher | : Academy Chicago Publishers |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Environmentally induced diseases |
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Author | : Stanton Coit |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Civilization |
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Author | : Stanton Coit |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : David J. Rothman |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780813521909 |
This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.
Author | : Henry Ernest Sigerist |
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Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : Samuel Milham MD MPH |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1938908198 |
When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandoras Box of unimaginable illness and death. Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and human disease. Milham takes readers through his early years and education, following the twisting path that led to his discovery that most of the twentieth century diseases of civilization, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and suicide, are caused by electromagnetic field exposure. In the second edition, he explains how electrical exposure does its damage, and how electricity is causing our current epidemics of asthma, diabetes and obesity. Dr. Milham warns that because of the recent proliferation of radio frequency radiation from cell phones and towers, terrestrial antennas, Wi-Fi and Wi-max systems, broadband internet over power lines, and personal electronic equipment, we may be facing a looming epidemic of morbidity and mortality. In Dirty Electricity, he reveals the steps we must take, personally and as a society, to coexist with this marvelous but dangerous technology.
Author | : Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0486282538 |
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