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Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians...
A Medical History of Skin
Scratching the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on inter-disciplinary...
Consumptive Chic
A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring...
by Susan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The number of wounded in the First World War was unprecedented, and inadequate military planning presented the medical and voluntary community with huge and daunting challenges. Yet in the face of tremendous adversity both tackled their work with resourcefulness, courage and great humanity. This book...
On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants
What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. *On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants *presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody,...
Medical Detectives
The Lives & Cases of Britain's Forensic Five
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The development of forensic medicine is chronicled through the cases of five great pathologistsThe development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning 70 years, their careers and achievements marked major milestones in the development...
by Roy Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
"To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D.
Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston...
White Coat Tales
Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This new edition of *White Coat Tales *presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that...
by Thomas M Walshe, III
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Neurological history claims its earliest origins in the 17th century with Thomas Willis's publication of Anatomy of the Brain, coming fully into fruition as a field in the late 1850s as medical technology and advancements allowed for in depth study of the brain. However, many of the foundations in...
by Naomi Craft
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
The Little Book of Medical Breakthroughs explains over 100 seminal discoveries, inventions and theories that have shaped the history of medical practice. Presenting a wide range of the most important medical breakthroughs, it covers a variety of topics, including artificial limbs used in Ancient Egypt,...
Cultures of Plague
Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social...
Silicosis
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Despite the common perception that "black lung" has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now...
by George Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen’s classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions...