Medical History category: 1391 books
by Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply...
Plague
A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge That Won't Go Away
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
A riveting account, at once a reconstruction of the race to find a cure, a history of bubonic plague, and an investigation into the threat of plague today
Plague. The very word carries an unholy resonance. No other disease can claim its apocalyptic or mythological power. It can lie dormant for centuries,...
The Microbes Fight Back
Antibiotic Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Antibiotics are familiar drugs to us all, so familiar that we may take them for granted. They allow us to survive life-threatening infections, and allow us to protect the animals we farm for food. Many antibiotics have now become ineffective against common diseases, and there are few alternative treatments...
by Robert Tattersall
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious and widespread diseases today....
by Stanley Finger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the...
Separate Beds
A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation....
by Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply...
by Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply...
An Epidemiological Odyssey
The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the...
Stand Up Straight!
A History of Posture
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Our bodies are not fixed. They expand and contract with variations in diet, exercise, and illness. They also alter as we age, changing over time to be markedly different at the end of our lives from what they were at birth. In a similar way, our attitudes to bodies, and especially posture—how people...
Dr. Mary's Monkey
How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing...
Body Failure
Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada’s medical...
Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care
Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and...
by Philip J. Howard Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Michigans Upper Peninsula is one of Americas hidden treasures. Overlooked and ignored as a place to visit compared, say, to Vermont or coastal Maine. It is decidedly not Yellowstone Park, Disney World, or New Orleans. The UP and the yoopers, as they are called, like it just that way. They enjoy their...