Medical History category: 1391 books
Social Poison
The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821–1926
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This comparative history examines the divergent paths taken by Britain and France in managing opiate abuse during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Though the governments of both nations viewed rising levels of opiate use as a problem, Britain and France took opposite courses...
Bodily Matters
The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act...
Aspirin
The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Diarmuid Jeffreys traces the story of aspirin from the drug's origins in ancient Egypt, through its industrial development at the end of the nineteenth century and its key role in the great flu pandemic of 1918, to its subsequent exploitation by the pharmaceutical conglomerates and the marvelous powers...
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson’s, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube...
Extreme Medicine
How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser Kevin Fong explores how physical extremes push human limits and spawn incredible medical breakthroughs
Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a...
Imperfect Pregnancies
A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In the 1960s, thanks to the development of prenatal diagnosis, medicine found a new object of study: the living fetus. At first, prenatal testing was proposed only to women at a high risk of giving birth to an impaired child. But in the following decades, such testing has become routine.
In...
The PKU Paradox
A Short History of a Genetic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey...
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians?...
by Dr Rhodri Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of how this psychological sensibility came to be established.
Psychology and Medicine in Modern Britain will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is...
by Sander L. Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander...
Doctoring the South
Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates...
The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes
Science, medicine, and reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionary new ideas. Enthusiastically participating in the heady atmosphere of Enlightenment debate, Beddoes' career suffered from his radical views on politics...
Prescription for Heterosexuality
Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
In Prescription for Heterosexuality, Carolyn Herbst Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early Cold War years. She argues that many doctors believed that a satisfying sexual relationship...
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the...