Tag: the arthrodynamometer
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Pharmaceutical marketing in America
Adil Menon Ali Mchaourab Cleveland, Ohio, United States A Pharmacy for Every Need (plate 24). Charles Émile Jacque. 1843. The Art Institute of Chicago. Within the past few decades, there has been a great change in how the pharmaceutical industry markets its products in the United States. Prices of medical drugs have skyrocketed as…
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Jules Amar (1879–1935). A method to help soldiers who were amputated or mutilated during the First World War reintegrate society
Philippe Campillo Ziad Joseph Rahal France Figure 1. The arthrodynamometer. (Amar, 1915, p. 833) Jules Amar (1879–1935) may not be well known in medical texts, but his work helped initiate two important scientific disciplines: the physiology of work and ergonomics. In The performance of the human machine: research on work (1909)1 Amar wrote of…