Medical History category: 1391 books
Visualizing Disease
The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. With Visualizing Disease, Domenico Bertoloni...
by Gary B. Ferngren
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era.
Ferngren first describes how early Christians...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Michael Ryan (d. 1840) remains one of the most mysterious figures in the history of medical ethics, despite the fact that he was the only British physician during the middle years of the 19th century to write about ethics in a systematic way. Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics offers both...
by Ido Israelowich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire offers a fascinating holistic look at the practice of ancient Roman medicine. Ido Irsaelowich presents three richly detailed case studies—one focusing on the home and reproduction; another on the army; the last on medical tourism—from the point of...
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional...
The Body Divided
Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then...
by Michelle Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private medical treatment at home or, later, in a practitioner's...
Time to Heal
American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1999
Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional...
The Evolution of Chinese Medicine
Song Dynasty, 960–1200
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth century...
by L. Stephen Jacyna, Stephen T. Casper
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders...
Life Histories of Genetic Disease
Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing today’s expecting parents to choose to test prenatally...
Mosquito Soldiers
Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria -- a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1.1...
This House of Noble Deeds
The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
On January 15, 1852, nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations came together to establish the Jews' Hospital in New York with a vision of offering free medical care to the indigent Hebrews in the City who were unable to provide for themselves during their illness. This was the...
The End of Epilepsy?
A history of the modern era of epilepsy research 1860-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Epilepsy is more than just a physical condition, the fact of simply having epileptic seizures, it has cultural, geographic and historical meaning and significance which go beyond that of a neurological disorder, and which defy a single perspective. The End of Epilepsy? is a beautifully illustrated,...