Medical History category: 1391 books
Medical Visions
Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how has medicine's visual culture changed in the digital age? Kirsten Ostherr's ambitious study explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this exceptional book documents the Army Nurse Corps history from the end of the Vietnam War to the year 2000. The author addresses a remarkable episode in the organization's evolution, a period characterized by a...
Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
Origins, education and careers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women’s admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational...
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring
The Art of 21st Century Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential. This book details the lessons every physician should have learned...
The Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly...
Bergen-Belsen 1945
A Medical Student's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation.
It was at this...
by Robert Bloomberg, Daniel Bird
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The story of Tufts Medical Center and the Floating Hospital for Children encompasses the history of medicine in Boston. It was founded in 1796 as the Boston Dispensary, where district physicians provided free medical care to the poor through annual subscriptions from wealthy Boston families, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Thanks to medical experiments performed on human subjects, we now have vaccines against smallpox, rabies, and polio. Yet the advances that saved lives too often involved the exploitation of vulnerable populations. Covering the history of human medical experimentation from the time of Hippocrates to...
Enduring Legacy
The M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical schools, four schools of nursing,...
Doing Good
The Life of Toronto's General Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries. In this lively and authoritative account, J.T.H. Connor traces the hospital’s two-hundred-year evolution, as its mandate to ‘do good’ forced constant adjustment...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword gashes, dysentery, and infection without the benefits of anesthesia or modern medical technology? In this...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent book by the U.S. Army provides a history of the foundations of Army medicine and the modern Army medical department.This is a lesson about constancy and change. Constancy in the sense of commitment,...
John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was among the first to popularize Scottish medical ideas concerning emotional and anatomical sensibility to British readers, doing so through the then-fashionable...