Medical History category: 1391 books
The Sociology of Medical Regulation
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written...
by George Burden, Dorothy Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life: health, disease, and physical anomaly, birth, death, and post-mortem diagnosis. The stories run the...
The Danger Within Us
America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
"Before you get anything implanted in your body, read this book." - Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated
**Did you know...
- Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.
- An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical...
by Nancy G. Siraisi
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi...
Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine
Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility...
Communities of Learned Experience
Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century...
by Thomas L. Higgins MD, Linda S. Baillargeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Baystate Medical Center was established in 1976 with the merger of the Medical Center of Western Massachusetts and Wesson Memorial Hospital. Baystate�s roots extend to 1870, when Springfield City Hospital was one of just 178 acute-care hospitals in the United States. It was renamed Springfield Hospital...
The Business of Private Medical Practice
Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. James A. Schafer Jr. shows that these...
Caring for the Heart
Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This groundbreaking book weaves together three important themes. It describes major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in the twentieth century, explains how the Mayo Clinic evolved from a family practice in Minnesota into one of the world's leading medical centers, and reveals...
Legacy
A Genetic History of the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to identify who they were--first applying the methods of physical anthropology and more recently of population genetics. In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the...
by Nicholas Culpeper, Michael A. Flannery
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The first medical book published in the American colonies.
The English Physician is a humble vest-pocket-sized 94-page medical guide for the common person, by the prolific herbalist and author Nicholas Culpeper. It was a staple in 17th-century England, as it was short, written in accessible...
'If You Knew the Conditions'
A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) provided some services prior to 1908, it was not until then that the Indian Medical Service was established...
Licensed to Practice
The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder "a sorry personal consequence...
by Ethel McCaul
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
During the Crimean War (1853-56) Sister Ethel McCaul R.R.C. (1867–1931)Florence Nightingale became a popular heroine of medical improvement. but her later campaigns, for improved care for the British Army, were often obstructed. Even as late as the South African War (1899-1902) many major failings...