Medical History category: 1391 books
Tuskegee's Truths
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad...
Marrow of Tragedy
The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate governments scrambled to provide...
by Annie Wittenmyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This remarkable book has been out of print for over a century and yet is one of the most intimate and compelling personal memoirs of the Civil War. Widow Annie Turner Wittenmyer spent the years of the American Civil War in the thick of exploding shells, shattered bodies, exhausted souls, and the...
Reading the Book of Nature
The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Fifteen essays in the history of science teach us that we must judge the work of earlier authors in its entirety and relate these views to the medical, religious, and even the political maelstrom of the period.
The Heart Healers
The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving...
Contesting Colonial Authority
Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new...
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a...
Dark Remedy
The Impact Of Thalidomide And Its Revival As A Vital Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
In this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel...
County
Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The amazing tale of County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last...
by Patricia Ibbotson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
The modern hospital evolved from both military garrisons and poorhouses. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that facilities with a wider purpose were founded in Detroit to combat diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, and mental illness. Religious institutions and benevolent societies established homes...
by D.S. Arrowsmith
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
The Lumber Room: Mental Illness in the House of Medicine (second edition published in 2016) is a lively, literate examination of handbooks written to help doctors distinguish mental illness from physical illness. Evidence from the history of illness and of medicine is presented, including a glance...
Langstaff
A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
On Face Transplantation
Life and Ethics in Experimental Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.