Medicine Is War

Medicine Is WarExamines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor. Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola crisis," "a new weapon against antibiotic resistance," or "the immune system fights cancer" without considering their assumptions,

and then reviews how selection programmes for the breeding of poultry have evolved over time

Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city

factors affecting distribution/abundance in soil

and the challenges it faces

including his deathbed speech to his sons

This chapter takes a microorganism and historical perspective to review advances in quantitative microbial risk assessment of fresh produce

and circulatory systems

British soldiers who served on the Western front

This book is an extensive resource covering many concepts and topics within rotational mechanics

successful endeavours

Giulia Galluccio

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue's philosophical argumentation