Medical History category: 1391 books
Beyond the state
The colonial medical service in British Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice...
Broken Hearts
The Tangled History of Cardiac Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of...
The Experiment Must Continue
Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and...
Old Red
Pioneering Medical Education in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a fascinating page in Galveston and Texas history....
by Richard Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Great Medical Mysteries is a hilarious catalogue of medical mysteries and trivia – medical mysteries of history, mysterious addictions and everyday medical mysteries are all posed and pondered with Richard Gordon’s famed wit. The result is a deeply humorous, often bawdy, novel that explores the...
by Helen Webster
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Called out by a frightened country doctor in the dark night of a prairie winter in 1919 to assist with an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Robert Ross travels to an isolated farmhouse where he finds himself entangled in a tragedy. He is immediately caught up in an ethical dilemma where all of his life experiences,...
130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong
From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong’s medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. When the University of Hong Kong...
by Ashley Ekins, Elizabeth Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. The major wars of the last hundred years - from the First World War to more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan - have driven advances in treatments for wounds and pain management, the use of antibacterial agents and more...
Maladies and Medicine
Exploring Health & Healing, 1540–1740
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the...
Medicalizing Blackness
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses...
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America
From Malaria to AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine...
by Michael A. Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively...
The Art of Medicine in Early China
The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the...
Selling Science
Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen...