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The battle over America's origin story : legends, amateurs, and professional historiographers
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ISBN: 3030995372 3030995380 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines the legends of who 'really' discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials -- some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did. Brian Regal is Associate Professor of history at Kean University, USA.

Vienna : a doctor's guide : 15 walking tours through Vienna's medical history
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ISBN: 1281138177 9786611138172 3211489525 3211489495 Year: 2007 Publisher: Wien ; New York : Springer,

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Vienna – medically. One can look at Vienna from this perspective, too. There are traces to be found almost everywhere in the city, as not all that long ago Vienna was, from the viewpoint of medical history, regarded as the "Mecca of Medicine". This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the inner city and the ninth district; the former was once the heart of mediaeval Vienna while the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) was established in Alsergrund, as the ninth district is known. However, a number of tours lead visitors outside the city and reveal Vienna from a more hidden perspective, as they lie somewhat outside the beaten tourist path and so have their own special attraction. Finding one’s way around this book – and hopefully also around Vienna – is easy. Having decided on your tour you can orient yourself according to the respective overview map. But, as man doth not live by medicine alone, there are also a number of notes on art history and a list of good cafés and restaurants. This allows the experiences to be digested in an appropriately Viennese way. A separate museum tour is devoted to museums without fixed opening hours, which contain special collections that exist only in Vienna.

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Medicine --- History. --- Vienna (Austria) --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Wien (Austria) --- Vi︠e︡denʹ (Austria) --- Vedenʹ (Austria) --- Vena (Austria) --- Wiedëń (Austria) --- Bécs (Austria) --- Vindobona (Austria) --- Videnʹ (Austria) --- Vienne (Austria) --- Viena (Austria) --- Wienn (Austria) --- Dunaj (Austria) --- Wean (Austria) --- Wenen (Austria) --- Wina (Austria) --- Wene (Austria) --- Uigenna (Austria) --- فيينا (Austria) --- Fīyinnā (Austria) --- Vyana (Austria) --- Вена (Austria) --- Горад Вена (Austria) --- Виена (Austria) --- Beč (Austria) --- Fienna (Austria) --- Viin (Austria) --- Βιέννη (Austria) --- Вена ош (Austria) --- Vena osh (Austria) --- Vieno (Austria) --- Viene (Austria) --- Vín (Austria) --- Veen (Austria) --- 빈 (Austria) --- Венæ (Austria) --- Venæ (Austria) --- וינה (Austria) --- Ṿinah (Austria) --- Vienna (Reichsgau) --- Medicine. --- Pharmacy. --- Arts. --- Architecture. --- Popular Science in Medicine and Health. --- History of Medicine. --- History, general. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Chemistry --- Drugs --- Materia medica --- Pharmacology --- Design and construction --- Health Workforce --- Medicine . --- Health. --- Medicine—History. --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Arts, Primitive --- Architecture, Primitive


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Salmonella spp : A Global Challenge
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Year: 2021 Publisher: London : IntechOpen,

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Salmonella is one of the main bacterial pathogens worldwide. S. Typhi is responsible for typhoid fever via fecal-oral transmission through contaminated food and water, whereas nontyphoidal Salmonella is transmitted through the food chain. Typhoid fever is of particular concern in developing countries. This means that control measures and the development of effective vaccines are necessary. Infections caused by multi-drug resistant Salmonella strains are becoming increasingly common. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the genus of Salmonella, including information on vaccines, control measures, strain characterization, bacteriophages, and much more.

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Foodborne pathogens : recent advances in control and detection
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Year: 2023 Publisher: London : IntechOpen,

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In a totally globalized world with a population estimated to reach 10 billion by the year 2100, according to the United Nations, food security and food safety are two of the main challenges facing humanity. Foodborne pathogens continue to cause many cases of infection in humans worldwide each year. Global trade today results in food produced in a specific region or industry being distributed globally, which can lead to a food-poisoning outbreak affecting people in different countries. The increase in antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacterial strains is another cause for concern. Detection and control of pathogens are therefore essential to prevent the occurrence of food-poisoning outbreaks and to reduce the prevalence of pathogens along the food production chain. Throughout the chapters of this book, the reader will have an overview of the main food pathogens and the problems they cause, as well as the main control measures and techniques for their rapid detection.

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