From Tb to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900 (Afro-American Studies Series)

There are three things which stand out about this book: first is its breadth -- this book is noteworthy as the first major attempt to write a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century American medicine and public health as they relate to the African American community. Second is the author's extensive use of previously untapped documents and archives. Finally, the book is rich in detail."Without doubt this book will be one of the most talked-about books of the 1990s. The author's dual thesis is a direct challenge to traditional interpretations of American medicine, public health, and the African American health experience. It demonstrates convincingly that the current AIDS crisis in the African American community is symptomatic of much broader and more serious systemic problems in American medical science, medicine, and the nation's health care delivery system. And although the author may not realize it, his book serves as a case study of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, as it applies to the medical science community." -- Monroe H. Little, Indiana University, Indianapolis

From Tb to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900 (Suny Series in Afro-american Studies)

McBride, David

Health, Fitness & Dieting

State Univ of New York Pr

State University of New York Press

Missions for Science traces the development and transfer of technology in four Atlantic regions with populations of predominantly African ancestry: the southern United States, the Panama Canal Zone, Haiti, and Liberia. David McBride explores how the pursuit of the scientific ideal, and the technical and medical outgrowths of this pursuit, have shaped African diaspora populations in these areas, asking: --What specific technologies and medical resources were transferred by U.S. institutions to black populations centers and why? --How did the professed aims of U.S. technical projects, public health, and military activities differ from their actual effects and consequences? --Did the U.S. technical transfer amount to a form of political hegemony? --What lessons can we learn from the history of technology and medicine in these key geographic regions? Missions for Science is the first book to explain how modern industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population centers. McBride is the first to provide a historical analysis of how shifting environmental factors and disease-control aid from the United States affected the collective development of these populations. He also discusses how independent black Atlantic republics with close historical links to the United States independently envisioned and attempted to use science and technology to build their nations.

Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World

Business & Money

Economics

Rutgers University Press

Traces the structural development and social and political experiences of one urban community of black medical providers during a period of unprecedented change in health care, race relations, and politics. This work also reveals the origins and influence of black medical professionals and allied health workers in Philadelphia.

Integrating City Medicine

History

Americas

Temple University Press

Little Kazumi doesn't like things that are different. He is afraid of anything other than what he is used to in his pig culture. When some new animals come to town these fears keep Kazumi from playing with these would be friends. One day, Kazumi finds himself in a world of different, literally, when he gets stranded on an alien planet. He will have to face these new things if he wants to get back home. Kazumi may even find out that different can be great and make a friend or two along the way.

Kazumi Racecar Pig: And the NOT So Different Space Aliens... from Space!

Children's Books

Animals

David McBride Animation

Kazumi, the Racecar Pig, returns and this time his greatest challenge is not the meteors hurling towards his town, but trying to find out if he is good enough to talk to the new girl he likes. Kazumi will have to learn the important lesson of self worth to make it through this adventure.

Kazumi Racecar Pig 2: And It Is So Good to Be You

Kazumi meets a forest spirit who has shut himself out from society because he is overwhelmed by all the negativity in the world. It is up to Kazumi to show him that beauty can be found everywhere and that there is still plenty of good out there.

Kazumi 3: And the Hideaway Tree (Kazumi Racecar Pig)

African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care—caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination—since the arrival of African slaves in America. Black American health progress resulted from the steady influence of what David McBride calls the health equality ideal: the principle that health of black Americans could and should be equal to that of whites and other Americans. Including a timeline, selected primary sources, and an extensive bibliographic essay, McBride’s book provides a superb starting point for students and readers who want to explore in greater depth this important and understudied topic in African American history.

Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare (The African American Experience Series)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

What is our place in nature? Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have has exercised unprecedented dominance over nature, with consequences that are now catching up with us. Many have pointed to Christianity as a culprit. Yet Christianity actually teaches that our relationship to nature should not be one of contempt or disassociation. Rather, according to ancient church tradition, nature is a book to be read, revealing truths about its creator and ours. At a time when many moderns are unsure of what difference, if any, marks us out from other living beings on our planet, and of what our place in the natural world ought to be, what might nature itself tell us about how to live within it? On this theme: Peter Mommsen asks if humans should live by nature's laws. Colin Boller interviews farmers successfully shifting to regenerative agriculture. Caroline Moore introduces some of Britain's amazing moths. Daniel Stulac wonders what the Promised Land means in Saskatchewan. Clare Coffey defends dandelions in lawns. Rhys Laverty reports on man's battle with the sea at the Alderney breakwater. William Thomas Okie explores the old idea that plants reveal their uses. Greta Gaffin looks at our relationship to wolves, and Saint Francis's. Norann Voll remembers lambing with her father. Tim Maendel finds peace by hunting. Erik Varden asks if the Christian teaching on chastity is unnatural. David McBride translates "The Leper of Abercuawg," an old Welsh poem. Maureen Swinger watches meteor showers. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.

Plough Quarterly No. 39 – The Riddle of Nature (Plough Quarterly, 39)

Science & Math

Wilbert, Lore Ferguson

Varden, Erik

Clarkson, Joy Marie

Okie, William Thomas

Voll, Norann

Stulac, Daniel J. D.

Crawford, Robert W.

Moore, Caroline

Laverty, Rhys

Coffey, Clare

Parham, Angel Adams

Gaffin, Greta

Kleczek, Casey

Keiderling, Timothy J.

Biological Sciences

Plough Publishing House

Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsifying research results in a bid to challenge the safety of another drug. David chose to study Law, firstly at Sydney University and then at Oxford. There he met some British army officers and decided that soldiering was his calling, going on to train at Sandhurst. He commanded a platoon in Northern Ireland while bomb and sniper attacks on British soldiers were still happening. In civilian life he worked in security protecting diplomats, journalists and businesspeople in Rwanda in the immediate aftermath of the 1994 genocide and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After growing tired of the travel and the action, David returned to England, where he worked in reality TV. On moving back to Sydney, he briefly joined a major law firm and then joined the Australian Army as a lawyer, going on to serve two tours of duty in Afghanistan, on the frontline confirming or denying decisions made by soldiers under international laws. He was medically discharged with PTSD in 2017. In 2018, he was charged with offences relating to national security and is awaiting trial. David was reregistered to practise law in NSW in 2022 and spends a bit of time defending those facing charges. Crammed with colour, adventure, achievements and some diversions, too David McBride leads a big life.

The Nature of Honour: Son, Duty-Bound Soldier, Military Lawyer, Truth-Teller, Father

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Viking Australia

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