Medical History category: 1391 books
In the Crucible of Chronic Lyme Disease
Collected Writings & Associated Materials
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.D. returned to Westchester County, home of his Alma Mater, New...
The Antibody Molecule
From antitoxins to therapeutic antibodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The Antibody Molecule follows the extraordinary journey of the medics and scientists who shaped the course of medical advances in the field of immunology. One of the oldest of the medical sciences, immunology has a history that has seen chemists, physicists and biologists alike seeking to unravel...
The disease of Chopin
a comprehensive study of his lifelong suffering
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The life of the Polish-French pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) was, to a great extent, influenced by his disease. Nevertheless, the diagnosis and differential diagnoses of his suffering remain a matter of debates in numerous biographical studies on the composer’s life. This study...
Ticker
The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult...
Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared...
Dreams and Due Diligence
Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive...
Testing Fate
Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In today’s world, responsible biocitizenship has become a new way of belonging in society. Individuals are expected to make “responsible” medical choices, including the decision to be screened for genetic disease. Paradoxically, we have even come to see ourselves as having the right to be responsible...
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China’s exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative...
African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The true story of the black doctors and nurses who tended to Civil War soldiers in the capital.
Just as African Americans fought in defense of the Union during the Civil War, African American nurses, doctors, and surgeons worked to heal those soldiers. In the nation’s capital, these brave...
A Century of Homeopaths
Their Influence on Medicine and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
As the values of integrative medicine continues to grow, alternative points of view and treatments are increasing in acceptance and prevalence. Homeopathic medicine is considered an important root to this approach. However, contributions of homeopathically qualified doctors have long been overlooked.
A...
Small Matters
Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded. During the first half...
by Thomas L. Higgins MD, Sandra W. Campbell, Gina O. Campbell RN
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In 1895, Franklin County Public Hospital (FCPH) was founded by 36 citizens led by Dr. Adams Calhoun Deane. The newly incorporated hospital rented the former home of Rev. Dr. Francis Robbins and served 55 patients in its first year of operation. By 1898, FCPH moved to the larger Converse House and...
Between Flesh and Steel
A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the historical development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to modern times.Military...
Divide and Conquer
A Comparative History of Medical Specialization
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines...