Medical History category: 1391 books
Discovering Tuberculosis
A Global History, 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year—more now than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study...
Matters of the Heart
History, Medicine, and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body. Across cultures it is seen as the site of emotions, as well as the origin of life. We feel emotions in the heart, from the heart-stopping sensation of romantic love to the crushing sensation of despair. And yet since the nineteenth century the...
The Ailing City
Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequences...
Preserving on Paper
Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Apricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses."
Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books–handwritten manuals that included a combination of...
The Medical Interview E-Book
The Three Function Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
The Medical Interview by Drs. Steven A. Cole and Julian Bird equips you to communicate effectively with your patients so you can provide optimal care! This best-selling, widely adopted resource presents a practical, systematic approach to honing your basic interviewing skills and managing common challenging...
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward “modernization,” and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas...
Life and Death
The History of Overcoming Disease and What It Tells Us About Our Present Increasing Life Expectancy as a Result of Present Day Actions
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This book covers Life and Death but is mainly about Life. It covers the five worse causes of death in the history of mankind and what has been done to prevent a repeat of these causes. Thid story covers the dramatic efforts since the eighteenth century by key individuals to overcome illness and extend...
Diagnosing the Legacy
The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication provides a comprehensive chronology of Air Force Nursing services. Since the Air Force Nurse Corps emerged from the Army Nurse Corps in July 1949, Air Force nursing service personnel have excelled...
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World
Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary...
Infertility
Tracing the History of a Transformative Term
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe.
Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually...
Melancholy and the Care of the Soul
Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions...
Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis
Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The use of biologics – drugs made from living organisms – has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century.