Colds and Flu
Despite all the advances in modern medicine there is still no cure for the common cold. As the days get cooler many people will suffer from a cold or the flu this winter. There are lots of remedies that people rely on to combat the common cold ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
David Macey
When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods ... [... more]
Random House |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
If you fall into the gray zone between health and disease but your physician can't find anything wrong ... if you have an illness for which modern medicine can offer no cure ... if your medical treatments are "working," but you still don't feel [... more]
Random House |
Wayne Biddle
From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious ... [... more]
Random House |
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Regarded today as the father of modern medicine, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was in fact much more besides. Natural scientist, philosopher, alchemist, with a deep distrust of orthodoxy and rational thought, he intermixed Christian theology with the ... [... more]
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