| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Series |
Studies for the Society for the Social HIST of Medicine |
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Studies for the Society for the Social HIST of Medicine
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements and Preface; Introduction: Healthscapes: Health and Place among and between Disciplines; 1 Placing Maternal Health in India; 2 Putting Medicine in its Place: The Importance of Historical Geography to the History of Health Care; 3 Finding Place in The Big-Little World of Doc Pritham: Telling Medical Tales about Northwoods Maine, 1920s-70s |
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4 Putting Hyperactivity in its Place: Cold War Politics, the Brain Race and the Origins of Hyperactivity in the United States, 1957-685 Why Canada Has a Universal Medical Insurance Programme and the United States Does Not: Accounting for Historical Differences in American and Canadian Social Policies; 6 Alberta Advantage: A Canadian Proving Ground for American Medical Research on Mustard Gas and Polio in the 1940s and 50s; 7 Placing Illness in its Cultural Territory in Veracruz, Nicaragua; 8 Chronic Disease in the Yukon River Basin, 1890-1960 |
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9 An Ideal Home for the Consumptive: Place, Race and Tuberculosis in the Canadian West10 Serbian Landscapes of Dreamtime and Healing: Clear Streams, Stones of Prophesy, St Sava's Ribs, and the Wooden City of Oz; Notes; Index |
| Note |
Access restricted to University of Saskatchewan students, faculty, and staff |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented - each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields |
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Print version record |
| Other Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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ProQuest, vendor.
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| ISBN |
1317322789 |
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9781317322788 |
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