Tag: Disease

Free Download The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America by Elizabeth L. Lee
2022 | ISBN: 1501346873 | English | 240 pages | True EPUB | 13 MB
In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, "Health-is the thing!" Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer "there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio." The Medicine of Art puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed.

Free Download The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History By J. N. Hays
2009 | 374 Pages | ISBN: 0813546133 | PDF | 2 MB
In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, the author, a historian chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of Western history. He frames disease as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. He shows how diseases affect social and political change, reveal social tensions, and are mediated both within and outside the realm of scientific medicine.

Free Download Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease
by Csefalvay, Chris Von;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0323953891 | 478 pages | True PDF EPUB | 45.87 MB