Punishing Disease
Автор: Trevor Hoppe
Год издания: 0000
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. <I>Punishing Disease </I>looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Now that the door to criminalizing sickness is open, what other ailments will follow? With moves in state legislatures to extend HIV-specific criminal laws to include diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis, the question is more than academic.
An account of a successful method of treating diseases of the spine
Автор: Thomas Baynton
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Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of a successful method of treating diseases of the spine : With observations, and cases in illustration / By Thomas Baynton».
The Disease of Chopin. A comprehensive study of a lifelong suffering
Автор: Victoria Wapf
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The life of the Polish-French pianist and composer Frederic Chopin (1810—1849) was, to a great extent, influenced by his disease. Nevertheless, the diagnosis and differential diagnoses of his suffering remain a matter of debates in numerous biographical studies on the composer’s life. This study shall conduct a systematization and overview of Chopin’s medical history, in an effort to outline pathways to his most probable diagnosis.