Product Description: A text which describes the ways that European powers used science and scientific inquiry to enforce their supposed cultural superiority on societies of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Product Description: Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the last century. Two scientific revolutions - the bacteriological revolution of the 1890s and the genetic revolution at the start of the twentieth century - acted as the catalysts of major change in our understanding of the causes of illness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A look at the history of the medical field chronicles its evolution while examining the culture that fueled it, including a look at the effects religion, science and politics have had on medicine. Reprint. NYT.

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Product Description: The overall purpose of the series is to provide scholarly yet argumentative treatments of key problems in sociology. They present an original viewpoint upon subjectd where an orthodoxy does not exist, whether because of undue neglect or because recent research has overturned previous orthodoxies...read more