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A warrior of the people : how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become America's first Indian doctor / by Starita, Joe,author.(CARDINAL)387398;

"On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 850 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bi-cultural identity to improve the lot of her people--physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.

Subjects: Biographies.; Picotte, Susan LaFlesche, 1865-1915.; Indian women physicians; Omaha women;

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Physicians for the people : Black doctors and the struggle for health-care equality in Alabama, 1870-1970 / by Ellis, Jack D.,author.(CARDINAL)144997;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index."African Americans have always fared worse than whites in enjoying the benefits of material progress and medical discovery. Black sociologist and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois argued that high mortality rates among Black people were rooted not in racial inferiority but in "the conditions of life," a fact illustrated by tuberculosis, which was three times higher among Blacks than whites, as well as the infant mortality rate for nonwhite children, which was 149.7 deaths per 1,000 births as opposed to 92.8 per 1,000 for white children. In "Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970," Jack D. Ellis argues that the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives hold special significance in this regard, illuminating both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in the medical professions. At the center of Ellis's study are African American doctors who practiced in Alabama between the late 1870s and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. During those years, a total of 241 Black medical graduates passed their licensing examinations and opened offices in the state. Ellis poses these questions: What were their geographical and family origins, and why had they been attracted to the study of medicine? Where had they trained, and how did they manage to function as professionals in a climate of racial oppression? What was their relationship to white doctors practicing in their communities, and how did they compensate for their systematic exclusion from local medical societies and hospitals? To identify Alabama's Black doctors of the past, Ellis first turns to the annual membership lists of each medical society in the state's sixty-seven counties, where the names of licensed practitioners who were not members also appeared, followed by the abbreviation "col." (for "colored"), a routine practice of the era that only ceased in 1965. Ellis then compiles oral histories from various interviews with physicians, dentists, and family members who were able to provide information on conditions affecting African-American medical practice in Alabama between the 1930s and 1970s. Portions of these oral histories include doctors' recollections of childhood, family life, and early education, and their evolving interest in the sciences, which occurred despite the weakness of libraries and laboratories in Black schools. Also included are the doctors' memories of medical training and the problems they encountered once in practice, from the wholesale poverty of their patients to the parallel worlds in which Black and white practitioners pursued their calling, as well as their accounts of the years spent trying to gain admission to Alabama's county medical societies, where membership was required to be admitted to hospital staffs and to pursue specialty training. As Ellis shows, this proved to be the hardest battle of all, even though Black doctors had passed the same licensing examinations as white doctors. From their first appearance in Alabama, Black physicians hoped to cooperate with their white peers, but their efforts went largely ignored; white doctors tended not only to share the racist norms of their time but often exceeded them. Black doctors being denied hospital training came at an enormous price to their careers and to the health of the state's Black citizens, the effects of which can still be seen today in statistical data, which shows that Black doctors face a disproportionate number of sanctions when compared to white physicians, and that the maternal and infant mortality rates for Black women and children are still much higher than their white counterparts"--

Subjects: African American physicians; Physicians; African Americans; Discrimination in medical care; Medical care; Racism against Black people;

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Defeating the ministers of death : the compelling history of vaccination / by Isaacs, David,1950-author.;

Includes bilbiographical references and index.Introduction -- 1. Our deadliest foes -- 2. Smallpox, the speckled monster -- 3. The flawed genius of Louis Pasteur -- 4. The end of polio -- 5. Tuberculosis, the great equaliser -- 6. Diphtheria, the scourge of childhood -- 7. The golden age of immunisation -- 8. Vaccines and cancer -- 9. Vaccines and pregnancy -- 10. Vaccines for the elderly -- 11.The tragedies and the frauds -- 12. The modern anti-immunisation movement -- 13. Immunisation and ethics -- 14. Overcoming the iniquity of poverty -- 15. Immunisation into the future -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Glossary of terms and abbreviations -- Suggested reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.In 1919, Spanish flu killed over 50 million people, more than died in both world wars combined. In 1950, an estimated 50 million people caught smallpox worldwide, of whom 10 million died. In 1980, before measles vaccine was widely used, an estimated 2.6 million children died of measles every year. Less than 100 years ago, losing a child to an infection like diphtheria or polio was a dreaded but almost inevitable sorrow faced by all parents, from the richest to the poorest. Today, these killer diseases are almost never seen in industrialised countries, thanks to the development of vaccines. Immunisation has given modern parents peace of mind their ancestors could not imagine. The history of vaccination is rich with trial, error, sabotage and success. It encompasses the tragedy of lives lost, the drama of competition and discovery, the culpability of botched testing, and the triumph of effective, lifelong immunity.

Subjects: Communicable diseases; Immunization; Vaccination; Vaccines;

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Plagues and pandemics / by Messner, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)335074; Koch, Falynn,1985-illustrator.(CARDINAL)630911; Messner, Ella,contributor.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.Ancient ailments -- The Black Death -- The scourge of smallpox -- Fever and mosquitoes -- King cholera -- Tuberculosis ... and new ideas about germs -- A deadly flu -- The battle against polio -- The new germs in town -- Preventing the next pandemic."With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--Ages 8-12Grades: 3-7.1110LAccelerated Reader ARNCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books, 2022.NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2022.

Subjects: Informational works.; Illustrated works.; Epidemics; Plague; Diseases and history; Communicable diseases; Black Death; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-;

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Chinese medicine and healing : an illustrated history / by Hinrichs, TJ.(CARDINAL)469387; Barnes, Linda L.(CARDINAL)368156;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-433) and index.

Subjects: Medicine, Chinese.; Medicine, Chinese; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Spiritual healing;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The parents' concise guide to childhood vaccinations : practical medical and natural ways to protect your child / by Feder, Lauren.(CARDINAL)475320;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-126) and index.

Subjects: Immunization of children; Vaccination of children; Vaccination of children; Vaccines;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Call the midwife : farewell to the East End / by Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011,author.(CARDINAL)423104; Coates, Terri,editor.(CARDINAL)425418|Biographies.lcgft(CARDINAL)326681|ChildbirthHistoryLow-income mothersServices forMidwivesPoor;

Includes bibliographical references (page 321).The three books of this trilogy chronicle Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly support to help the inhabitants through the harsh economic climate.

Subjects: Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011.;

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The little locksmith : a memoir / by Hathaway, Katharine Butler,1890-1942.(CARDINAL)151365; Shulman, Alix Kates.(CARDINAL)711540; Mairs, Nancy,1943-2016.(CARDINAL)717134;

Includes bibliographical references (page 258).This is the memoir of Katharine Butler Hathaway. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1890, she attended Radcliffe college and later went on to write of her experiences in Maine, New York City, and Paris during the artists' culture of the 1920s. She writes of her life from her childhood with spinal tuberculosis at the age of five. She spent the next 5 years strapped to a board ... her body eventually became deformed as she never grew any large than that of a ten-year-old child. As she grows up, Katharine, begins to discover the value of her life, her self, and her independence.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Hathaway, Katharine Butler, 1890-1942.; Authors, American; Pott's disease; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

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Our own : adopting and parenting the older child / by Maskew, Trish.(CARDINAL)537916;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Adopted children; Older child adoption;

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The Penguin book of the prose poem : from Baudelaire to Anne Carson / by Noel-Tod, Jeremy,editor,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)541391;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The expansion of the prose poem / Jeremy Noel-Tod -- The end of days / Golan Haji -- Merry Christmas from Hegel / Anne Carson -- Going nowhere, getting somewhere / Vahni Capildeo -- Children are the orgasm of the world / Hera Lindsay Bird -- Antico Adagio / Peter Gizzi -- Knife / Rod Mengham -- A woman shopping / Anne Boyer -- Notes towards a race riot scene / Bhanu Kapil -- "There were barnacles ..." / Sarah Howe -- from Letter against the firmament / Sean Bonney -- from Citizen: an American lyric / Claudia Rankine -- My funeral / Peter Manson -- Flower, quarter, mask / John Fuller -- Reclaiming a beloved city / Clifton Gachague -- Imagined sons 9 : Greek salad / Carrie Etter -- Place name : flog man / Kei Miller -- Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood -- from Fairies / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- from Mystériuses / Éric Suchère -- Some fears / Emily Berry -- from Odes to TL61P / Keston Sutherland -- The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter / Mark Strand -- Chicken / Cathy Wagner -- Birthweights / Chris McCabe -- Other things / Alvin Pang -- from Adventures in Shangdu / Cathy Park Hong -- Cry break / Paige Ackerson-Kiely -- Short prayer to sound / Vivek Narayana -- Homeless heart / John Ashbery -- Black sunlight / D.S. Marriott -- Nightmare pink / Elena Penga -- Conversations about home (at the deportation centre) / Warsan Shire -- O elegant giant / Laura Kasischke -- Via negativa / Jane Monson -- The experience / Simon Armitage -- Folkways / Anthony Joseph -- from Virtual airport / Matthew Welton -- Photographs, undeveloped / Ágnes Lehóczky -- from Folklore / Tim Atkins -- Edith / Sophie Robinson -- The wren / Jen Hadfield -- from Bird bird / Jeff Hilson -- The hornsman / Bill Griffiths -- from The idylls / Maurice Riordan -- Blue dog / Luke Kennard -- If / Sina Queyras -- Fiddleheads / Seamus HeaneyCaptain of the lighthouse / Togara Muzanenhamo -- from Angle of yaw / Ben Lerner -- The phases of the moon in London / Amjad Nasser -- Corruption / Srikanth Reddy -- from echolocatin / Mani Rao -- from Chapter E / Christian Bök -- Denigration / Harryette Mullen -- A hardworking peasant from the idyllic countryside / Linh Dinh -- Ted's head / Rod Smith -- Hosea: a commentary / Charles Boyle -- The skull ring / Chelsey Minnis -- from The weather / Lisa Robertson -- Ode / Lisa Jarnot -- from Letters to Wendy's / Joe Wenderoth -- The most sensual room / Masayo Koike -- The cough / Barbara Guest -- Cinema-going / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- from Joan of Arc / Nathalie Quintane -- Neglected knives / Kritín Ómarsdóttir -- Little corona / Don Paterson -- Seoul's dinner / Kim Hyesoon -- Christopher Robin / Czesław Miłosz -- Returns to harmony 3 / Agha Shahid Ali -- Thought (I) / Esther Jansma -- The poet / Eileen Myles -- Prose poem / Ron Padgett -- from Kuchh Vakya / Udayan Vajpeyi -- from Lawn of excluded middle / Rosmarie Waldrop -- The word-gulag / Abdellatif Laâbi -- Dustie-fute / David Kinloch -- dropped on the ground · the small coin / Zhou Yaping -- from Short talks / Anne Carson -- In love with Raymond Chandler / Margaret Atwood -- Letters / Clark Coolidge -- What no one could have told them / C.D. Wright -- An anointing / Thylias Moss -- Man with a mower / Jenny Bornholdt -- Deer dancer / Joy Harjo -- from The stumbling block its index / Brian Catling -- Chekhov: a sestina / Mark Strand -- Inflation / Carol Rumens -- Quaker oats / Rita Dove -- from The world doesn't end / Charles Simic -- Human wishes / Robert Hass -- Burnt hair / Meena Alexander -- The Hanoi market / Yusef Komunyakaa -- reading / joanne burnsThe first week of mourning / Shang Qin -- The dogs / Yves Bonnefoy -- from My life / Lyn Hejinian -- The souvenir / Dan Pagis -- A walk through the museum / Ánges Nemes Nagy -- Hearts / Laurie Duggan -- The land of counterpane / Lee Harwwod -- from C / Peter Reading -- Many musicians practice their mysteries while I am cooking / Bink Noll -- Or else / Christopher Middleton -- abglanz / reflected gleam / Wulf Kirsten -- Honey / James Wright -- A vernacular tale / Peter Didsbury -- The colonel / Carolyn Forché -- Meeting Ezra Pound / Miroslav Holub -- Goodtime Jesus / James Tate -- Vanity, Wisconsin / Maxine Chernoff -- Gay full story / Bernadette Mayer -- from Logbook / Tom Raworth -- The colors of night / N. Scott Momaday -- Portrait of A.E. (an artful fairy tale) / Elke Erb -- Chile / Ottó Orbán -- Scissors / Shuntarö Tanikawa -- A caterpillar / Robert Bly -- Cloistered / Seamus Heaney -- Ape / Russel Edson -- from The wild rose / Ken Smith -- Chimes of silence / Wole Soyinka -- from Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill -- from Shooting script / Adrienne Rich -- The bookcase / Tomas Tranströmer -- For John Clare / John Ashberty -- Milk / James Schuyler -- from it / Inger Christensen -- A case / Gael Turnbull -- An old-fashioned traveller on the trade routes / Rosemary Tonks -- Strayed crab / Elizabeth Bishop -- The flag / Pablo Neruda -- Vocabulary / Wisława Szymborska -- Catherine of Siena / Elizabeth Jennings -- from City / Roy Fisher -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- from Letters to James Alexander / Jack Spicer -- Hermes, dog and star / Zbigniew Herbert -- Where the tennis court was ... / Eugenio Montale -- A supermarket in California / Alan Ginsberg -- Clock / Pierre Reverdy -- Meditations in an emergency / Frank O'Hara -- Love letter to King Tutankhamun / Dulce María LoynazThe clerk's vision / Octavio Paz -- Around the star's throne / Hans Arp -- The god of war / Bertolt Brecht -- The swift / René Char -- Phrase / Aimé Césaire -- Street cries / Luis Cernuda -- Rain / Francis Ponge -- The pleasures of the door / Francis Ponge -- Crate / Francis Ponge -- from Vigils / John Lehmann -- Nijinksi / George Seferis -- The right meaning / César Vallejo -- Blue notebook, no. 10 / Daniil Kharms -- Bourgeois news / Charles Madge -- Lozanne / David Gasgoyne -- In praise of glass / Gabriela Mistral -- from The orators / W.H. Auden -- My occupations / Henri Michaux -- Force of habit / André Breton and Paul Eluard -- Sunflowers are already black gunpowder / Anzai Fuye -- The dog's retort / Lu Xun -- Snow / Lu Xun -- Son / Saint-John Perse -- Hell is graduated / Max Jacob -- A day / Rabindranath Tagore -- from Kora in hell: improvisations / William Carlos Williams -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- Pulmonary tuberculosis / Katherine Mansfield -- Hysteria / T.S. Eliot -- Spring day / Amy Lowell -- The moon / Juan Ramón Jiménez -- London notes / Jessie Dismoor -- Street circus / Pierre Reverdy -- from Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein -- Winter night / Georg Trakl -- from Scented leaves- from a Chinese jar / Allen Upward -- Painting / Paul Claudel -- Absinthia taetra / Ernest Dowson -- The pipe / Stéphane Mallarmé -- The disciple / Oscar Wilde -- The master / Oscar Wilde -- from By the waters of Babylon / Emma Lazarus -- After the flood / Arthur Rimbaud -- Sideshow / Arthur Rimbaud -- Genie / Arthur Rimbaud -- The end of the world / Ivan Turgenev -- On the sea / Ivan Turgenev -- The stranger / Charles Beaudelaire -- Windows / Charles Beaudelaire -- The bad glazier / Charles Beaudelaire -- The madman / Aloysius Bertrand -- The mason / Aloysius Bertrand -- Haarlem / Aloysius Bertrand.The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.

Subjects: Prose poems.; Prose poems.; Prose poems;

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