Published January, 2024
By Jennifer Horne
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
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Published January, 2024
By Jennifer Horne
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Published November, 2021
By Theodore G Obenchain
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Traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling mortality rates that plagued new mothers of the day.

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Published September, 2021
By Gregory D Chapman
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
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Provides an insider's perspective on the field of cardiovascular medicine told through vignettes and insights drawn from Gregory Chapman's three decades of experience. In twenty-six bite-sized chapters, Chapman provides an overview of cardiovascular diseases and treatments, illuminating the art and science of medical practice.

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Published July, 2018
By Dana R. Chandler, Edith Powell and Linda Kenney Miller
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
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An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide. In To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down, Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell document Tuskegee University's medical and public health history with rich archival data and never-before-published photographs.

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Published April, 2018
By Alan I Marcus
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
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Published September, 2016
By Theodore G Obenchain
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Published March, 2016
By Aimee Medeiros
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A groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography, film, music, prose, and other examples from popular culture, Aimee Medeiros tracks how the stigmatization of short stature in boys and growth hormone technology came together in the twentieth century.

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Published November, 2015
By Gregory J. Higby
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
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The position of the pharmacist in the structure of health care in the US evolved during the middle half of the 19th century. Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the "Father of American Pharmacy", and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter's professional commitment to the field.

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Published October, 2015
By Deanne Stephens Nuwer
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Explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late.

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