Studies on Byzantine History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
The articles republished in this volume represent only a portion of Jenkins' specialized writings on Byzantine history. They have been selected to form a coherent group. They cover the central period of what is often termed the 'Middle-Byzntine Empire', a period which opens with the accession of Michael III in 842 and closes with the death Constantine VII in 959. In the hisotyr of Byzantium this was a crucial epoch.
Gutsy Mercy Lynch returns in this sequel to Boneshaker (2009), which begins with her working as a nurse in a Richmond hospital in a strangely extended American Civil War. Her husband has died as a Union POW, and now her father is dying in the Pacific Northwest. She sets out to reach his bedside, first by riverboat and then, from St. Louis onward, by rail. The locomotive Dreadnought is a character in its own right (which reflects the view of “high-tech” at that time), and Mercy also has to deal with hostile Indians, Union and Confederate guerrillas, just plain bandits, and some of her fellow passengers with designs on her virtue and everything else that is hers.
'At first glance it could have been anything - a stone, a knotted root - until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...' It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk's teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to find. But the ill-conceived search ended badly. And with Monk safely behind bars, the momentum faltered.
The Term CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY is derived from its two parent disciplines: clinical medicine and epidemiology. It's "clinical" because it seeks to answer clinical questions and to guide clinical decision making with the available evidince. It is "epidemilogic" because many of the methods used to answer these questions have been developed by epidemiologiitss and because the care of indivual patients is seen in the context of the large population of which the patient is a member. Fainly! you need it if you are health care provider!.
Medicine Before the Plague - Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon 1285 - 1345
This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the extensive archival material and contemporary writings which exist for eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death. It describes the range of medical practice which then existed - a continuum ranging from scattered academic physicians to barbers and empirics - and gives evidence for the levels and numerical growth of these various occupations in early fourteenth-century communities (although it also emphasizes that occupational distinctions were not yet sharply drawn).
