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This book contains essential information required for clinical
practice and professional ENT examinations, as well as interviews
in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. The contents of this book
span the breadth of ENT training syllabi including Paediatric ENT
Surgery, Otology, Neuro-Otology, Clinical Audiology, Rhinology,
Facial Plastic Surgery, Clinical Radiology and Basic Sciences
relevant to Otolaryngology. This book is suitable for both junior
and senior higher-surgical trainees in Otolaryngology. Included are
800 true/false multiple choice questions (Chapters 1-4) and 325
true/false quizzes (Chapters 5-10). Collectively, the questions and
quizzes assess factual material as well as clinical information.
Questions are arranged randomly within each sub-specialty to
reflect real life situations. Answers, along with succinct notes,
are provided at the end of each chapter. This book will enhance
your ENT knowledge in the shortest possible time because it
separates the 'wheat' from the 'chaff'. Eight other ENT Tzar books
are also available for ENT career development. From medical student
to consultant level (www.enttzar.co.uk)
During the nineteenth century, European scientists and physicians
considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens. Hot and
miasmic, the tropical world was the locus of disease, for Euopeans
the great enemy of civilization. In the late nineteenth century
when bacteriological laboratories and institutions were introduced
to British India, they were therefore as much an imperial mission
to cleanse and civilize a tropical colony as a medical one to
eradicate disease. Bacteriology offered a panacea in colonial
India, a way by which the multifarious political, social,
environmental, and medical problems and anxieties, intrinsically
linked to its diseases, could have a single resolution.
Bacteriology in British India is the first book to provide a social
and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating
it within the confluence of advances in germ theory, Pastuerian
vaccines, colonial medicine, laboratory science, and British
imperialism. It recounts the genesis of bacteriology and laboratory
medicine in India through a complex history of conflict and
alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. By
investigating an array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and
literary sources, the volume links colonial medical research with
issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and imperial attitudes toward
tropical climate and wildlife, contributing to a wide field of
scholarship like the history of science and medicine, sociology of
science, and cultural history. Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in
History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester.
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