Medical History category: 1391 books
Voices of Mental Health
Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy...
Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine
Historical and Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and...
Money-Driven Medicine
The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan...
The Pain Chronicles
Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent...
The Story of Pain
From Prayer to Painkillers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story:...
Healing Kentucky
Medicine in the Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Most towns did not have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception. Kentucky's first real hospital opened in 1823, but it was in Louisville -- too far away to serve many Kentucky communities, especially in cases of emergency. For this and other reasons,...
Pioneer Doctor
The Story of a Woman's Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She...
Gene Jockeys
Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to five of the first ten recombinant DNA drugs to be approved...
by Rhiwallon of Myddfai
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
"The Physicians of Myddfai"("Meddygon Myddvai" in Welsh), or "The medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, of Myddfai, in Carmarthenshire, physicians to Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor and Ystrad Towy", was written about the middle of the 13th century....
by Hippocrates,Francis Adams (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order....
by Hippocrates,Francis Adams (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order....
by Hippocrates,Francis Adams (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order....
Images of Leprosy
Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago, leprosy, or Hansens disease, was an incurable infectious illness, and it still remains a grave global concern. Recently,...
by Rick Flinders MD
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Santa Rosa Reader is a personal anthology from the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency by Dr. Rick Flinders, a family physician who trained at the residency and later became its director. The anthology includes essays, histories, journals and reflections from Dr. Flinders’ long career in one of the preeminent family medicine residency programs in the United States.