Published September, 2021
By Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other Wars reconstructs the nation's struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.

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Published February, 2019
By Thomas Szasz
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For more than a half century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a thorough and provocative critique of the practice of psychiatry. In many ways his latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.

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Published December, 2016
By James Paget Carleton and Michael J. Thate
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a man of perennial fascination, and this volume brings his achievements across a variety of areas - philosophy, theology, and medicine - into sharper focus.

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Published December, 2016
By James Paget Carleton and Michael J. Thate
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a man of perennial fascination, and this volume brings his achievements across a variety of areas - philosophy, theology, and medicine - into sharper focus.

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Published March, 2013
By Dan Way
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Published October, 2011
By Thomas Szasz
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Published September, 2009
By Thomas Szasz
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More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness - a disease of the mind - is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. In this book, he argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatry nor antipsychiatry. They stem from conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense.

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Published September, 2008
By Thomas Szasz
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Published December, 2007
By Louise M. Bishop
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Inspired by the literary history of healing, this book explores the cognitive and physical effects of words in relation to the healing process. It presents an original and theoretically challenging examination of the intersection between medical manuscript and literary texts, such as the ""Canterbury Tales"" and ""Piers Plowman"".

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Published November, 2007
By Marina De Regt
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Using the Hodeida Urban Primary Health Care Project as a case study, this book offers an analysis of how development policies of the state interconnect with agendas of global donor organizations and the employment of women in the face of social disapproval and barriers to advancement.

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