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3. Medicine in the hospital  

William Bynum

in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction

3. Medicine in the hospital

6. Influenza  

Christian W. McMillen

in Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction

6. Influenza British Medical Journal wrote in April 1919 that in Bombay influenza “caused a havoc to which the Black Death … alone affords a parallel.” It is still not known where the virus originated. Asia has often been cited. In Italy, rumors spread that it was not flu at all; it was chemical warfare perpetrated by the Germans. A pamphlet by an Italian doctor asked the question in its title: “Are the Latest Serious Epidemics of Criminal Origin?” The first known outbreak was at Camp Funston, Kansas, on March 5, 1918. From there it traveled to other forts

1. Origins and legacies  

Charles Foster

in Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction

1. Origins and legacies

4. Confidentiality and privacy  

Charles Foster

in Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction

4. Confidentiality and privacy

10. A glance into the future  

Michael Dunn and Tony Hope

in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

10. A glance into the future

3. A toolbox of reasoning  

Michael Dunn and Tony Hope

in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

3. A toolbox of reasoning

8. How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality  

Michael Dunn and Tony Hope

in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

8. How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality

9. Culture, consent, and community  

Michael Dunn and Tony Hope

in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

9. Culture, consent, and community

2. Medicine in the library  

William Bynum

in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction

2. Medicine in the library

1. On why medical ethics is exciting  

Michael Dunn and Tony Hope

in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

1. On why medical ethics is exciting

5. Tuberculosis  

Christian W. McMillen

in Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction

5. Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis , might be the oldest human disease. It is part of a family of mycobacterial diseases, including M. africanum, M. bovis , and M. cannetti , that have been evolving for perhaps three hundred million years. The oldest fossil evidence for a tuberculosis-like disease comes from a five-hundred-thousand-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Turkey with TB-like lesions. M. tuberculosis —the type that affects humans—emerged in Africa about seventy thousand years ago. It accompanied modern humans on their migratory paths out of Africa, first across the Indian Ocean and then, some millennia

6. Medicine in the modern world  

William Bynum

in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction

6. Medicine in the modern world

7. Establishing fair procedure  

Michael Dunn and Tony Hope

in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

7. Establishing fair procedure

7. Out of the ghetto, into the whirlwind  

Norman Solomon

in Judaism: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

7. Out of the ghetto, into the whirlwind , when we enquired how Judaism and Christianity split apart, even in the 1st century several forms of Judaism existed side by side, all laying claim to being the authentic Torah.