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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Modern medicine"”.
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Professional medicine and race: Medical missionaries in Qing China and global history of modern medicine, 1807-1912
The student, Yun Young Hur, accepted the attached license on 2019-11-27 at 15:29.
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Cultural Encounters in Medicine: (Re)Constituting Traditional Medicine in Taiwan under Colonization, Modernity, and Exchange
Today we have many alternative medicines, not a few of which connect back to aboriginal cultures. Some of these alternative medicines were born under the influence of European imperialism, as they were not "alternative" until modern empires and modern medicine came to these distant regions. The …
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中国现代医事形成中的地方性——以上海为个案（1927-1937年）= THE LOCALITY IN THE MAKING OF MODERN MEDICINE IN CHINA, A CASE STUDY OF SHANGHAI, 1927-1937
… the conflicts between practitioners of Western medicine and Chinese medicine，which is the core of modern transformation of medicine in China in the “Nanjing Decade（1927-1937）”from the angle of the province, but not the State. By taking Shanghai as a case, this dissertation reveals the existing …
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Factors leading mental health care users to use modern and traditional medicine in rural areas of Makhado Municipality in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa
Traditional medicine still plays a bigger role in people dealing with health and disease. Research shows that in some Asian and African countries, traditional medicine forms the primary mode of health care for 80% of the population. This is actively promoted in South Africa and is used by at least …
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Investigation of the phytochemistry and biological activity of isoquinoline alkaloids isolated from the South African medicinal plants, cyrtanthus sanguineus (Lindl.) walp. and cyrtanthus obliquus (L.f.)ait
The term "traditional medicine" refers to the ways of protecting and restoring health that existed before the arrival of modern medicine. These approaches to health belong to the traditions of each country and have been handed down from generatio to generation.
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The determinants of perinatal mortality in a teaching group of hospitals in Southern Africa
… towards the prevention of the latter that modern medicine is aimed.
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HOW WOMEN IN THE ANDEAN HIGHLANDS OF PERU USE RELIGION TO MAKE HEALTHCARE DECISIONS
… exerted on women's choice of medical care, i.e. modern medicine vs. traditional medicine. The data were collected during a summer study abroad program in the Callejon de Huaylas of Peru. The overall goal of the project has been to understand the influence that Spanish colonization and …
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Probing Steady-state and Post-transplant Blood System Dynamics with Computational Analysis and Lineage-tracing
Bone marrow transplants are an important tool in modern medicine due to their ability to treat a wide range of diseases, spanning both cancerous and non-cancerous conditions. We aim to study the blood system dynamics using sequencing data from paired pre-transplant and post-transplant samples and …
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Toward Cell-Specific Nanoparticle Delivery Systems
… nanoparticles remains a significant challenge in modern medicine, particularly due to the complexity, time, and expense involved in experimental design and optimization for cell-specific applications. To address this, NOCAP (Nanoparticle Optimization and Cell Affinity Prediction) was developed, a …
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Location-targeted measurement of perceived stress
Modern medicine has made significant advancements in the treatment of acute diseases, disorders, and injury. However, the acute care system rising from the twentieth century medical industry is far less adept in tracking and managing the needs of chronic conditions, especially that of chronic …
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Probing the role of cell-cell interactions in hepatic ensembles
… is one of the greatest advances of modern medicine and provides immense therapeutic benefit to patients suffering from severe and fatal liver disease, donor tissue is scarce. Alternatives such as engineered cell-based therapies aim to restore tissue-specific functions of solid …
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The embodiment and enactment of shen 神 in the Huangdi neijing 《黃帝內經》 by contemporary healers (yi 醫)
The modern history of medicine in China is disposed to position Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a feudal tradition if not an afterthought. If the republicans of modern China had their way, Traditional Chinese Medicine would have been relegated to the various curios in museums (Hsu 2008; Lei …
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Feasibility of microwave radar system for proton emission therapy control.
Non-invasive medical procedures are desired in modern medicine because of advantages they provide in patient safety and comfort. A cutting edge, non-invasive medical procedure implemented specifically for cancer treatment is proton therapy. However, to safely implement this procedure on the thorax …
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Mechanism of anaesthetic activation, combination and antagonism
… during surgery and are indispensable in modern medicine to allow invasive procedures. Although the binding sites of several anaesthetics have been identified through structural and functional experiments, the underlying mechanism of such drugs remains unclear. In the first chapter of this …
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Perspectiva da longevidade
Modern medicine has greatly advanced in the last twenty years, and whether senescence as a biological process itself can be slowed, stopped or even reversed, has become the subject of scientific speculation and current research. There are several research groups in both public and private spheres …
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COVID-19 In Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease - Complications, Risk Factors and Mortality // COVID-19 при пациенти с краен стадий бъбречна недостатъчност – усложнения, рискови фактори и смъртност
… one of the most significant challenges facing modern medicine, putting healthcare systems around the world under pressure and requiring the adaptation of clinical practices to the dynamically changing epidemiological environment. Patients with chronic diseases have been particularly affected. …
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Improving blood compatibility of surfaces using tanfloc and carboxymethyl-kappa-carrageenan polyelectrolyte multilayers
… medical devices are indispensable in modern medicine but often cause complications like thrombosis, infections, and undesirable cellular responses. This research addresses these challenges through surface modifications using bio-derived polymers and nanoscale topographies. The first …
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Large-scale prediction of patient-level antibiotic resistance : towards clinical decision support for improved antimicrobial stewardship
Antibiotics are critical to modern medicine. However, levels of resistance have been rising, exacerbated by over-prescription and misuse of antibiotics. One major reason for this inappropriate usage is that doctors often must decide treatment without the results of microbiologic testing, a setting …
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When Violence Thrives in Silence: Highlighting Narratives of Women Survivors of Obstetric Violence in Alabama
… a historical foundation and the inception of modern gynecology and obstetrics, focusing on the abuse of enslaved women to advance modern Medicine in Alabama. Article two is a secondary, qualitative study using the methodology of poetic inquiry to understand the lived-experiences of obstetric …
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Bring Up the Bodies: The Resurrectionists and the Rise of the American Cadaver Trade
… eighteenth century as the foundation for much of modern medicine and medical training. Rapidly increasing interest in providing for anatomy subsequently created black market demand for cadavers. This thesis argues that the cadaver trade in Philadelphia was never an organic outgrowth of anatomical …
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