La vuelta al mundo de la expedición de la vacuna (1803-1810) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook La vuelta al mundo de la expedición de la vacuna (1803-1810) write by Gonzalo Díaz de Yraola. This book was released on 2003. La vuelta al mundo de la expedición de la vacuna (1803-1810) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vietnamese Traditional Medicine write by C. Michele Thompson. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Vietnamese Traditional Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detailed historical and linguistic research restores agency and voice to practitioners of Vietnamese medicine, showing how the adoption of Chinese and then Western ideas of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries relied on indigenous Vietnamese concepts of health and the human body. She mines medical manuscripts in Chinese and in Nom (vernacular Vietnamese) to capture various aspects of the historical interaction between Chinese and Vietnamese thought. She presents a detailed analysis of the Vietnamese response to a Chinese medical technique for preventing smallpox, and to the medical concepts associated with it, looking at Vietnamese healers from a variety of social classes. Thompson's account brings together colorful historical vignettes, contemporary observations and interviews, and textual analysis. It stands out as a demonstration of the power of the history of medicine to illuminate adjacent fields of enquiry. It will be of interest to historians of medicine globally and in East Asia, as well as to students of Vietnam and its complex process of modernization.
Saving the World
Saving the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saving the World write by Julia Alvarez. This book was released on 2007-04-27. Saving the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later. The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked by a story she has stumbled across. It's the story of a much earlier medical do-gooder, Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook to vaccinate the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox. To do this, he required live "carriers" of the vaccine. Of greater interest to Alma is Isabel Sendales y Gómez, director of La Casa de Expósitos, who was asked to select twenty-two orphan boys to be the vaccine carriers. She agreed— with the stipulation that she would accompany the boys on the proposed two-year voyage. Her strength and courage inspire Alma, who finds herself becoming obsessed with the details of Isabel's adventures. This resplendent novel-within-a-novel spins the disparate tales of two remarkable women, both of whom are swept along by machismo. In depicting their confrontation of the great scourges of their respective eras, Alvarez exposes the conflict between altruism and ambition.
War Against Smallpox
War Against Smallpox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Against Smallpox write by Michael Bennett. This book was released on 2020-06-18. War Against Smallpox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by medical men and parents, the children put arm-to-arm across the world, and the early challenges, successes and disappointments. He presents vaccination as a quiet revolution, genuinely emancipatory, but also the sharp end of growing state power. By the end of the war in 1815, millions of children had been vaccinated. The early success of the war against smallpox paved the way to further advances towards eradication.
Understanding Cuba as a Nation
Understanding Cuba as a Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Cuba as a Nation write by Rafael E. Tarragó. This book was released on 2017-01-20. Understanding Cuba as a Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed yet accessibly written exploration of the history of Cuba since the Spanish conquest of 1512 that illustrates the development of the Cuban nation, and summarizes the accomplishments of Cubans since the 16th century in the arts, literature, and science.
