Medical History category: 1391 books
The Treatment
The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city. Thirty years ago the author, then an assistant professor of English, acquired a large set of little-known medical papers at her university. These...
Unrecognised by the World at Large
A biography of Dr Henry Parsey, Physician to the Hatton Asylum, Warwick
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
The building of asylums throughout the country in the middle of the 19th Century expressly for the pauper mentally ill, who would otherwise have had no means of obtaining any medical care at all for themselves or their family members, was enlightened thinking by the Victorians. Victorian doctors of...
by Linda Bryder
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Women's Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature...
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia
Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years ago. In 1987, a conference on this theme was...
by Laurent Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs. Joubert was an educator as well as...
Technological Change in Modern Surgery
Historical Perspectives on Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the historical contexts of...
Healing After Dark
Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
In 1927 in the field of health care an unusual event occurred. Morris Aaron Cohen, M.D. founded the Boston Evening Clinic, an unique and never before conceived facility for the treatment of the indigent and low-wage earners who could not afford to lose a day’s pay. It was an endeavor that achieved...
by James Vendeland
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book is a compilation of three lectures which were prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Ocular Heritage Society. These lectures were given in April 2011, 2012 and 2013.
As a collector of antique medical instruments, in particular 19th century ophthalmoscopes and other optical...
Disability in Medieval Europe
Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas...
The Madness of Fear
A History of Catatonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing...
Nesiritide
The Rise and Fall of Scios
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
This remarkably insightful book gives true meaning to the apocryphal moan from the pharmaceutical CEO as he traveled home after an FDA slap down: Drug development aint for sissies. Peter Kowey, MD, author of LETHAL RHYTHM, DEADLY RHYTHM and THE EMPTY NET
When Roger Mills, a medical school professor,...
by Gary B. Ferngren, Ekaterina N. Lomperis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich collection of annotated primary sources that illustrate the intersection of medicine and religion. Intended as a companion volume to Ferngren’s classic Medicine and Religion, which traces the history of the relationship of medicine...
Ultrasound in Clinical Diagnosis
From pioneering developments in Lund to global application in medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later renamed Echocardiogram. A few weeks later, on December 16th, the neurosurgeon Lars Leksell diagnosed an intracranial bleeding in a 16-month-old...