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Bodies in Flux
Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of “certainty” in medical practice. To help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions. We take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. But bodies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This intriguing text examines the connections between war and health, addressing both the good and bad aspects of this relationship and tracing the evolution of medical practice under its influence. The work features 12 American military operations—from the Revolutionary War to the American Indian...
Fools and idiots?
Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field...
The Drug Hunters
The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.
The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium,...
Genius Belabored
Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling...
Who They Were
Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
In Who They Were, Dr. Robert C. Shaler, the man who directed the largest and most groundbreaking forensic DNA investigation in U.S. history, tells with poignant clarity and refreshing honesty the story behind the relentless effort to identify the 2,749 victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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William Osler: A Life in Medicine
A Life in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England...
Blessed Days of Anaesthesia
How anaesthetics changed the world
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the printing press, anaesthesia offered pain-free operations,...
Complaints and Disorders
The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this biomedical rationale was used to justify...
by Michael Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and...
by Rob Boddice
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
What is pain? Has the experience of pain always been the same? How is pain related to the emotions, to culture, and to pleasure? What happens to us when we feel pain? How does pain work in the body and in the brain? In this Very Short Introduction, Rob Boddice explores the history, culture, and medical...
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor
The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated them. History is replete with examples of breakthrough medicines...
Mad-Doctors in the Dock
Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself...
The Vaccine Race
Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times
“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with...