The centennial history of the Rochester Academy of medicine. Hardcover. In plastic ( so I can't give a better description). Rochester, New York

Let the Art of Medicine Flourish: The Centennial History of the Rochester Academy of Medicine

Medical Books

Lehr, Teresa K.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Q Pub

The Great Tonsil Massacre uses creative non fiction to recount a public-health initiative that took place in Rochester, New York in 1920 and 1921. The narrative explores the motives of the industrialists and professionals who established two tonsil/adenoid clinics designed to benefit children whose families were subsisting on very limited incomes. At a second level, it examines some of the reasons that may have discouraged other citizens from publicly questioning the project, even though serious risks and inflated claims were involved. Finally, it follows the tensions that arise in the O’Connell family, whose members are directly affected by proponents’ claims. Kate and Michael O’Connell, Timmy’s mother and father, have already suffered through a botched public health event when their story opens. Memories of that event, and her and Michael’s implication in it, plague Kate. Michael, a firm believer in the medical miracles he has witnessed in the early 20th century, wants what is best for his son’s future. At present the family can afford to sign Timmy and his younger sister Molly up for the operation, but Michael’s job security is tenuous. Timmy, whose physical development lags behind his peers’, wants to catch up, but he is afraid of undergoing the operation. Molly adores her big brother and will follow him anywhere. Conflicts within the family and among Timmy’s schoolmates escalate, causing the characters to reassess their first conclusions. An epilogue to the story examines the factual events as they were recorded in contemporaneous documents: meeting minutes, government reports, and newspaper articles. An appendix includes photographs of the actual clinical sites and of some of the activities that occurred in them. The narrative also focuses on the social conditions and class-based attitudes that existed in this mid-sized manufacturing city in the early 1920s. In addition, the book addresses three questions that have persisted into the twenty-first century: 1. Can a comprehensive healthcare plan, no matter how well intentioned it may be, fit every citizen’s need?; 2. Should citizens accept the pronouncements of health care professionals without question?; 3. Should parents who resist having their children immunized against communicable diseases be compelled to submit for the protection of the majority?

The Great Tonsil Massacre

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>To Serve the community celebrates the founding and development of Rochester City Hospital/Rochester General Hospital through the past century and a half. The narrative explores conditions in early Rochester that led community leaders to obtain a hospital charter , to encourage local citizens to support a centralized institution for the care ofthe sick poor and to build community confidence in an institution where everyone might benefit from medical care regardless of social class. The story of the Hospitals' development parallels advances in scientific and medical knowledge in America. It also reflects the evolution of healthcare professionals and technological breakthroughs that have resulted in modern healthcare.</p>

To Serve the Community: A Celebration of Rochester General Hospital, 1847-1997

Maples, Philip G.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Donning Company

Lighting The Way: A History of the First One Hundred Years of St. John's Home, Rochester, New York176 pp. Illustrations throughout. "In Lighting The Way, Lehr examines the birth and development of one of Rochester's most highly regarded homes for the elderly, St. John's Home."Keywords: ST. JOHNS HOME ROCHESTER NEW YORK LOCAL INTEREST UPSTATE NEW YORK NY HISTORY

Lighting the Way: A Celebration of the First One Hundred Years of St. John's Home, Rochester, New York

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>Black Velvet Band weaves together the experiences of three women, their friends, and their colleagues, during one of the most critical periods of 20th century American history. Nursing student Alice Denny and her classmates face the pleasures and pains that young women like them endured as they prepared to become registered nurses, one of the first professions established for women early in the 20th century. Mary Keith R. N., Superintendent of General Hospital in a major American city, aided by her colleagues and close friends, guides her institution through choppy waters. A severe drain of nurses, physicians, and adjunct staff, restrictions imposed by the Federal Government, and demands of Board members and city officials complicate the day-to-day pressures that fulfilling her institution's mission demands. Sophia Palmer R. N., as the district's American Red Cross nurse recruiter, culls through the area's female population seeking every willing trained nurse to serve in stateside training camps and overseas military hospitals. Then she teaches classes to teach nursing skills to untrained women in an effort to fill vacancies left in general hospital nursing staffs. Suddenly in the fall of 1918, a toxic blanket of Spanish influenza reaches America's shores and spreads quickly through its cities. More deadly than the weapons of war, the disease paralyzes communities just as it prostrates its victims. General hospitals are on the edge of foundering. Nursing students, the epidemic's most vulnerable victims, face sickness, death and exhaustion daily.The hospital superintendent must find rooms and staff enough to fulfill her institution's pledge to accept every sick individual and every accident victim that needs medical help.The Red Cross nurse recruiter must organize a network of willing but untrained volunteers to fight the disease throughout diverse city neighborhoods, at hastily established emergency hospitals, and in abandoned mansions.In reviewing real-time events, this fictive history novel, built on a thoroughly researched, factual framework and portraying actual historic individuals, seeks to discover the heroes whose intuition and creative teamwork allowed hospitals and communities to endure during the crisis.The goal of the novel's fictive history approach is to give documented history a heartbeat and the real historic players in the drama personalities and emotional responses to the challenges they face.Human themes give depth to the characters: heroism and hope counteract annoyance and anger; pride that comes from successfully meeting a challenge head on replaces a sense of frustration over conditions that cannot be altered; humor and love counterbalance devastating feelings of helplessness and grief that the Spanish influenza pandemic created.Images of the individuals and the sites portrayed in the novel as well as a chronology of real-time events appear in the novel's appendix.</p>

Black Velvet Band