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 Medieval Europe From Another Angle, Volume I: The People by Florin Curta English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032454695 | 300 Pages | True ePUB | 4 MB  Verena Krebs, "Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe" English | ISBN: 3030649334 | 2021 | 325 pages | MOBI | 2 MB This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings' motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries - and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers' claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called 'Age of Exploration'.  Ofer Hadass, "Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier's Medical Practice " English | ISBN: 0271080191 | 2019 | 232 pages | MOBI | 11 MB The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man whose burning desire for certain, true knowledge contributed to the contemporary venture of putting existing knowledge to useful ends.  Medicine, Malpractice and Misapprehensions (Biomedical Law and Ethics Library) By V. H. Harpwood 2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0415428076 | PDF | 3 MB Analyzing the level of claims for clinical negligence in the light of the most recent trends and discovering whether there is indeed a litigation crisis in healthcare, this book is a topical and compelling exploration of healthcare and doctor-patient relationships. The author: identifies and analyzes the growing pressures on doctors in modern society, placing their role in context explores some of the myths surrounding media claims about malpractice considers the practice of 'defensive medicine' and the difference between defensive practices and sensible risk management examines external pressures, such as political interference with clinical practice in the form of target-setting and what might be described as a culture of creeping privatization of healthcare. Covering the topics of medicine and the media and the causes of occupational stress among doctors, this volume is a must read for all students of medical law and medical ethics.  Pablo Chong Aguirre, "Medicinal Plants of Ecuador " English | ISBN: 1032003987 | 2022 | 228 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB This unique volume draws on the rich culture, folklore and environment of medicinal plants in Ecuador, which includes the important rain forest region. This country has rich plant resources and a large diversity of plants. In particular, the Biotechnological Research Center of Ecuador, CIBE, is an important center of plant research and biodiversity. For more than 16 years, CIBE has been performing scientific research on plants and microorganisms with extensive focus on biodiversity, biotechnology, bioproducts, hytopathology, molecular biology, tissue culture and technology transfer. The Center has state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology and a great strength in human resources.  Medical Law (Briefcase Series) By Alasdai Maclean, Alasdair Maclean 2001 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 1859416098 | PDF | 1 MB This book presents important and relevant cases in medical law in an accessible format. The cases, and other relevant material, are linked by short comments which explain their legal relevance and ethical significance. Although law and ethics are divorced in principle, a consideration of ethical issues adds context to legal decisions, and is particularly relevant to medical law. A brief introduction to the ethical principles that govern the provision of health care, constitutes the framework for considering the issues that arise in the cases. Interspersed with the cases and materials think points are used to test the students understanding and guide him/her towards the important and contentious issues. The primary aim of this book is to provide rapid and easy access to the important cases within the area of health care law. It will provide a valuable adjunct to more substantial texts as well as being an essential revision tool. It will also provide a useful springboard from which a student could dive into deeper research. A secondary aim of the book is to provide a summary of health care law to students and practitioners of other disciplines. Doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and bioethicists will all find the book a ready source of relevant case law and material written in clear English without recourse to legalese.  Medical Examinations: Dissecting the Doctor in French Narrative Prose, 1857-1894 By Mary Donaldson-Evans 2000 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0803266286 | PDF | 3 MB From the crude battlefield surgery of Revolutionary times to the birth of modern clinical medicine, the nineteenth century witnessed impressive developments in the medical sciences and a concomitant growth in the prestige of the medical practitioner. In France this phenomenon had important implications for literature as writers scrambled to give legitimacy to their enterprise by allying themselves with science. Overflowing its traditional banks, medical discourse inundated the field of French literature, particularly in the realist and naturalist movements. The literati's enthrallment with medicine and their subservient adoption of a medical model in the creation of their Descriptions and characters have not previously been seriously questioned. In Medical Examinations, Mary Donaldson-Evans corrects this oversight. Exploring six novels and two short stories published during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, she argues that there was a growing resistance to medicine's linguistic and professional hegemony, a resistance fraught with ideological implications. Tainted by a subtle-and sometimes not so subtle-anti-Semitism, some of the fiction of this period adopts counterdiscursive strategies to tar the physician with his own brush. Featured authors include Gustave Flaubert, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Emile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse and L?on Daudet.  Medicaid - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References By ICON Health Publications 2004 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 059784593X | PDF | 5 MB This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to medicaid. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to medicaid. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.  Media in Hong Knong: Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005 (Routledge Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series) By Carol Lai 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0415401216 | PDF | 2 MB This book examines the Hong Kong media over aforty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule. Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews and specific case-studies, it provides an illuminating analysis of the dynamics of political power and its relationship with media censorship. Overall, this book is an impressive discussion of the evolving face of the Hong Kong media, and is an important contribution to theoretical debates on the relationship between political power, economics, identity and journalism.  Media Regulation, Public Interest and the Law (Second Edition) By Mike Feintuck, Mike Varney 2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0748621660 | PDF | 1 MB This substantially revised edition shows how the increased commercialization and privatization of British broadcast media poses a fundamental threat to "the public interest" as pressures of the marketplace transform traditional concepts of public service. |
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