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The Art of Asylum-Keeping - Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Hardcover): Nancy Tomes The Art of Asylum-Keeping - Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Hardcover)
Nancy Tomes
R2,100 Discovery Miles 21 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. It recreates everyday life in the asylum and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.

Medicine's Moving Pictures - Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (Paperback): Leslie J. Reagan,... Medicine's Moving Pictures - Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (Paperback)
Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, Paula Treichler; Contributions by John Parascandola, Joseph Turrow, …
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films. This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseaseshave thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medicalmedia are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, andhistorical contexts. Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow Leslie J. Reagan is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a Professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a Professor atthe University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Remaking the American Patient - How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (Hardcover): Nancy Tomes Remaking the American Patient - How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (Hardcover)
Nancy Tomes
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as ""health care,"" Tomes considers what it means to be a ""good"" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today.

Patients as Policy Actors (Hardcover, New): Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger Patients as Policy Actors (Hardcover, New)
Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger; Introduction by Beatrix Hoffman, …
R4,401 Discovery Miles 44 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored. The volume concludes with a unique epilogue outlining principles for more effectively integrating patient perspectives into a pluralistic conception of policy-making. With the recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, patients' and consumers' roles in American health care require more than ever the careful analysis and attention exemplified by this innovative volume.

The Gospel of Germs - Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Paperback, New edition): Nancy Tomes The Gospel of Germs - Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Paperback, New edition)
Nancy Tomes
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, The Gospel of Germs takes us back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness. Little more than a hundred years ago, ordinary Americans had no idea that many deadly ailments were the work of microorganisms, let alone that their own behavior spread such diseases. The Gospel of Germs shows how the revolutionary findings of late nineteenth-century bacteriology made their way from the laboratory to the lavatory and kitchen, with public health reformers spreading the word and women taking up the battle on the domestic front. Drawing on a wealth of advice books, patent applications, advertisements, and oral histories, Tomes traces the new awareness of the microbe as it radiated outward from middle-class homes into the world of American business and crossed the lines of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Just as we take some of the weapons in this germ war for granted--fixtures as familiar as the white porcelain toilet, the window screen, the refrigerator, and the vacuum cleaner--so we rarely think of the drastic measures deployed against disease in the dangerous old days before antibiotics. But, as Tomes notes, many of the hygiene rules first popularized in those days remain the foundation of infectious disease control today. Her work offers a timely look into the history of our long-standing obsession with germs, its impact on twentieth-century culture and society, and its troubling new relevance to our own lives.

Patients as Policy Actors (Paperback, New): Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger Patients as Policy Actors (Paperback, New)
Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger; Introduction by Beatrix Hoffman, …
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centred care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored. The volume concludes with a unique epilogue outlining principles for more effectively integrating patient perspectives into a pluralistic conception of policy-making. With the recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, patients' and consumers' roles in American health care require more than ever the careful analysis and attention exemplified by this innovative volume.

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