Medical History category: 1391 books
Animals and Medicine
The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge gained...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this fascinating book recounts the tales of the 498th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) in the Iraq War during 2003. The 498th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) served with the Marines in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom....
by Dr. Thomas Dormandy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's most effective means of alleviating physical and mental pain. This extraordinary book encompasses...
Another Person’s Poison
A History of Food Allergy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth.
Another Person's Poison parses the...
Race, Place, and Medicine
The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped...
Pandemic 1918
Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Before AIDS or Ebola, there was the Spanish Flu — Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history.
In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive...
Fighting Fit
Health, Medicine and War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The 20th century saw two world wars and many other conflicts characterized by technological change and severity of casualties. Medicine has adapted quickly to deal with such challenges and new medical innovations in the military field have had advantages in civil medicine. There has thus been interplay...
Prescribed
Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the complex relations among the...
by Guenter B. Risse
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city’s Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse’s history of an epidemic is the first to incorporate...
by John Aberth
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to...
More Than Hot
A Short History of Fever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression...
Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon
: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Navy Medicine begins and ends with a humanitarian operation-—the first, in 1954, after the French were defeated, when refugees fled to South Vietnam to escape from the communist regime in the North; and the second, in 1975, after the fall of Saigon and the final stage of America’s exit...
by Domenico Ribatti
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
The study of medical history is interesting in itself and may help to modify the view sometimes expressed that medical students and doctors are lacking in culture of any sort. Moreover, some historical perspective is often advantageous when one is considering the multitude of advances that are now...
A Disease Apart
Leprosy in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This fascinating cultural and medical history of leprosy enriches our understanding of a still-feared biblical disease.
It is a condition shrouded for centuries in mystery, legend, and religious fanaticism. Societies the world over have vilified its sufferers: by the sheer accident of mycobacterial...