Medical History category: 1391 books
An Aztec Herbal
The Classic Codex of 1552
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
"I love that this book is the real deal. A truly unique and informative read." — Texas Kitchen and Garden and More
Originally written in the Aztec language, Nahuatl, in 1552, this classic codex was the first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World. The author of this extraordinarily...
Indirect Action
Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional...
The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs
Popular Myths and Learned Delusions Regarding the Bite of the Mad Dog
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
For centuries prior to the development of an effective vaccination against rabies, the bite of a mad dog was linked to a horrific ailment marked by convulsions, an utter dread of swallowing liquids, uncontrollable thrashing, and even the tendency to bark and attempt to bite othersa horrid prelude...
Happy Accidents
Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They...
by Gilbert Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby...
Medieval Herbal Remedies
The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak
A Fast History of Amphetamine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Elvis Presley, the Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Judy Garland, Hank Williams, the Manson Family, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, JFK, and Adolf Hitler. All of the above were, at one time or another, to put it bluntly, speedfreaks.
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces...
by Joyce A. Hanson, Suzie Earp, Erin Shanks
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Dr. William Henry Mills, fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians in London, arrived in San Bernardino, California in February 1903. Recruited by Dr. George Rowell as a medical partner, Dr. Mills quickly realized that surgical facilities in San Bernardino were woefully...
by Peter N. Fish
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Guide to the duties, customs, organization, administration, resources, and benefits for medical officers in the U.S. Army.
Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine
The United States, France, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions...
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)
A History of Women Healers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle ages, paired chapters explore key themes situating...
by Carol Trowbridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Andrew Taylor Still lost confidence and hope in the medical therapies of his day after three of his children died of meningitis in 1864. He became obsessed with finding the cause and the cure for disease. Still developed a philosophy of osteopathy that was holistic, naturalistic, and emphasized health...
Pain
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain has defined the line between liberals and conservatives from just after World War II to the present. From disabling pain to end-of-life pain to fetal pain, the battle over whose pain is real and who deserves relief has created...