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Dying to Get High
Marijuana as Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2008
Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing!
Warring Wines; ’You Want to Fight?’; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa Cruz
High Times interviews the authors
Alternet excerpt of the book ("How Pot Became Demonized")
Discussion from the Santa Cruz Metro
Marijuana as medicine has been a politically...
Recycling the disabled
Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance...
by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, Abraham Fuks
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care). Approximately 15 years ago, a team of physicians...
Sir Charles Bell
His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath. His original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain has been called the Magna Carta...
Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake
The Birth of the Medical Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
T. A. Cavanaugh's Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession's unique internal medical ethic - in its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick....
Life and Limb
Perspectives on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War. The essays and recollections detail some of the earliest attempts by...
The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872–1937
On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
This is the first full-length study of the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, who graduated from the medical school at the University of Michigan in 1896 and then ran dispensaries, hospitals, and nursing schools in China from the 1890s to the 1930s. Known in English-speaking countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's health—organize discussions across case studies of...
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical...
Old English Medical Remedies
Mandrake, Wormwood and Raven's Eye
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In 9th century England Bishop Ælfheah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald’s book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA where modern antibiotics have failed. Within...
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
**"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.**
A...
Medical Bondage
Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor...
Bellevue
Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.
Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime...
by Michael H. Kater
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of social history.--Historische Zeitschrift
"The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and the weight of evidence he compiles...