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Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen,...
Office Upstairs
A Doctor's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Charles H. Banov, gifted storyteller and physician, shares tales from over fifty years of his love affair with medicine and looks back with honesty and humor at growing up Jewish in the South and opening the first doctor's office in a tiny Texas town. His journey, from anxious medical student to respected...
Facing Eugenics
Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies...
by Michael Joe Dupont
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Sixty years ago, modern medicine finally made its way to New Mexico. As World War II wound down, the state was a quaint backwater filled with aging quacks, Grade C medical graduates, and a vest-pocket professional organization. A group of young-gun doctors and an ex-Marine from Oklahoma changed all...
by Charles Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time
This volume is the continuation of ‘A History of Epidemics in Britain from a.d. 664 to the Extinction of Plague’, and is the completion of the history to the present time. The two volumes...
by Richard Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Most histories of medicine focus on the elite royal colleges of London and the exotic diseases and squalor of the city slums, but, according to Richard Moore, the real story of the emergence of healthcare as an integral component of the welfare state was written in the provincial shires. His focus...
Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond
Autopsy, Pathology and Display
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biological...
Artificial Hearts
The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Artificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart failure aligned neatly with the twentieth-century American medical community’s view of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this...
The Bleeding Disease
Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was short lived. The same treatments that delivered some normalcy to the lives of persons with hemophilia...
From Hysteria to Hormones
A Rhetorical History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women’s health.
Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term “hormone” in 1905,...
A Darkened House
Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in public health, and...
Medicine in Mexico
From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched hut; a world-renowned scientist doing research in Mexico City—all were part of the mid-twentieth century medical scene in Mexico, a country of great...
Fevered Measures
Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these...
'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.
An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, recently retired as a medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript entitled, 'Regimental Practice, or a Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse Guards when abroad (Commonly called the Blews).' Revised in several stages...