Medical History category: 1391 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This document establishes operational doctrine for Air Force health services and outlines the principles for how the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) intends to provide medical support to the Air Force throughout the full range and scope of operational scenarios as outlined in Air Force Doctrine Document...
Doctors beyond Borders
The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics. Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on this international issue, showing how foreign-trained doctors have challenged – and transformed – health...
Health
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves -- yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as separate disciplines. This book departs from that practice, gathering contributions by both historians...
Doctors
The Biography of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way.
How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman...
Hearts
Of Surgeons and Transplants, Miracles and Disasters Along the Cardiac Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Pioneer heart surgeons and bitter rivals: The “thoroughly engrossing” true story of doctors Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley (The New York Times Book Review).
By 1970, the Texas Medical Center in Houston was the leading heart institute in the world, home to the field’s two most distinguished...
Doctoring Freedom
The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for...
by David Dary
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic...
by William Henry Kellar, Barbara Bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In 2012, Richard E. Wainerdi retired as president and chief executive officer of the Texas Medical Center after almost three decades at the helm. During his tenure, Wainerdi oversaw the expansion of the center into the world’s largest medical complex, hosting more than fifty separate institutions....
Smart Medicine
How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping...
Pale Faces
The Masks of Anemia
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book— the first volume in the Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series—is at the forefront of the current popular trend in medical writing that includes the work of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, in which doctors examine themselves and their profession to expose how science, art, and...
by Ulf Lagerkvist
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
We are swamped with information and each day seems to bring new discoveries that must be considered. Never before in the history of science have so many scientists been as active as today. It has become a major problem for the expert just to keep up with the literature in his or her own field of research....
The Amazing Language of Medicine
Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates...
Differential Diagnoses
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care...
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie...