First published in 1939, this seminal book startled the worlds of science and nutrition with its documented evidence of primitive populations encountering civilization, adopting modern diets, and finding that their health worsened. It remains the basic book in this area and is essential reading for those concerned with food and health.
This internationally popular text provides a practical, clinically-focused introduction to ophthalmology suitable for anyone looking for a quick-reference uupdate on state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment of all major diseases of the eye. The new edition includes coverage of leading-edge topics including treatment of corneal disease by limbal reconstruction and amniotic membrane grafting, exudative macular degeneration, the use of intraocular steroid inections to treat a variety of retinal diseases, and use of immunomodulatory drugs for inflammatory eye disease.
Modernism and Eugenics Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration
In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs reveals how Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of racial improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs. Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays.
