Medical History category: 1391 books
In the Wake of the Plague
The Black Death and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or...
Vaccine
The Debate in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects...
Dead on Arrival
The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political,...
by James L. A. Webb, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors, parasites and malarial disease that have shaped the programs of malaria control and altered the transmission of malarial infections. It examines the...
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease...
The Demand for Health
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body...
Behind Closed Doors
IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as their present, and Behind Closed Doors is the first...
Jungle Laboratories
Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global...
Unconscious Crime
Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional...
Burdens of War
Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In the World War I era, veterans fought for a unique right: access to government-sponsored health care. In the process, they built a pillar of American social policy. Burdens of War explores how the establishment of the veterans’ health system marked a reimagining of modern veterans’ benefits...
A Town Called Asbestos
Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers...
This Mortal Coil
The Human Body in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
How humans have felt and thought about the body-our bodies-has never been static. Rather, it has shifted across times and cultures, taking and losing definition due to any number of forces and trends-philosophical, religious, cultural, technological. Sometimes we imagine our identity purely as an...
by Patrick Pead
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
If you think you know how vaccination began - think again - because its dawn is clouded in myth and misrepresentation. Not a ‘discovery or an ‘invention’, vaccination was a development of what had gone before. Man’s battle against infectious disease had started in the Far East long ago with...
Piecing the Puzzle
The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg...