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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
A Brief Life That Changed the History of Newborn Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
On August 9, 1963, the infant son of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, born premature at 34 weeks, died of a common lung ailment after 39 hours of life. This book tells, for the very first time, the entire story of those tense and desperate days from the viewpoint of Patrick’s pediatrician and the team...
Civilizing Argentina
Science, Medicine, and the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country rich in natural resources and seemingly bursting with progress and energy, has puzzled many historians. In...
Pathologist of the Mind
Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatry—still a nascent medical specialty at the time—Meyer...
The Finest Traditions of My Calling
One Physicians Search for the Renewal of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing psychiatrist...
A Royal Patient
Young Doctor Axel Munthe and Crown Princecss Victoria of Sweden-Norway
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
A story about a young man who goes out into the world, meets trials, and finds a princess — so what’s new?
The young man is adventurous Axel Munthe from Stockholm, Sweden, desiring to become a doctor and position himself in high society. Later in his life he would write The Story of San...
The Poisoner's Handbook
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
**Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie"—**The New York Observer
A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and...
Vaccinated
Triumph, Controversy, and An Uncertain F
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same. Born into the life of a Montana chicken farmer, Hilleman ran off to the...
In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room
Travels Through Indian Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZE
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions.
Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine...
Marketplace of the Marvelous
The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point
Despite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still adhered to ancient healing methods such as induced vomiting and bleeding, blistering, and sweating...
Piety and Plague
From Byzantium to the Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances...
The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy:Bodies, books, fortune, fame
Bodies, books, fortune, fame
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as they are detailed.The Making...
by Jim Leavesley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Throughout history, many doctors have worked outside the occupation for which they were originally trained. Not Your Ordinary Doctor reveals sixty such medical truants who found fame in fields other than medicine.
Meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes; cringe as Stalin...
Pox
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century.
At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through...