Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts

Sep 8, 2008

Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid


Lisa Moore, "Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid"
NYU Press | ISBN-10: 0814757189 | July 1, 2007 | 256 pages | PDF | 1.3MB

Drawn from fifteen years of research, Sperm Counts examines historical and scientific documents, children's "facts of life" books, pornography, the Internet, forensic transcripts and sex worker narratives to explain how semen got so complicated. Among other things, understanding how we produce, represent, deploy and institutionalize semen-biomedically, socially and culturally-provides valuable new perspectives on the changing social position of men and the evolving meanings of masculinity. Ultimately, as Moore reveals, sperm is intimately involved in not only the physical reproduction of males and females, but in how we come to understand ourselves as men and women.

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Jul 23, 2008

Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Eliezer Geisler, "Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems"
Medical Information Science Reference | ISBN-10: 1599048892 | June 17, 2008 | 1566 pages | PDF | 20MB

Healthcare, a vital industry that touches most of us in our lives, faces major challenges in demographics, technology, and finance. Longer life expectancy and an aging population, technological advancements that keep people younger and healthier, and financial issues are a constant strain on healthcare organizations resources and management. Focusing on the organizations ability to improve access, quality, and value of care to the patient may present possible solutions to these challenges.

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