Medical History category: 1391 books
by Stanford T. Shulman MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In 1886, the state-of-the-art surgery room of Truman W. Miller, MD, in Chicago�s first children�s hospital had no electric lights, no antibiotics, limited equipment, and only the most rudimentary anesthesia. This renowned surgeon served on a voluntary basis as president of an all-volunteer medical...
by Richard A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Founded in 1907 amidst protests and a burgeoning suffrage movement, Essex Mountain Sanatorium was the result of two Montclair, New Jersey, women who successfully lobbied local government to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in a then vacant cottage for wayward girls. From these humble beginnings, the...
When Good Drugs Go Bad
Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan Malleck reveals how different forces converged...
The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911
The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history,...
Dialysis
History, Development and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
This book describes the past, present and future of dialysis and dialysis-related renal replacement therapies so that the reader can acquire a firm grasp of the medical management of acute and chronic renal failure.
By becoming thoroughly conversant with the past and present of dialysis, a...
Allergy
The History of a Modern Malady
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
It attacks through foods, animals, and innumerable chemical combinations. It is among the most common and potentially lethal afflictions known. It is the allergy, the subject of Mark Jackson’s fascinating chronicle.
Jacksoninvestigates how the allergy became the archetypal “disease of civilization,”...
Women of Mayo Clinic
The Founding Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium therapy and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects...
Fixing the Poor
Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary...
Hype
A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2018
A straightforward appraisal of why health myths exist, dispelling many of them, and teaching readers how to navigate the labyrinth of health advice and the science and misinformation behind it.
Hype is Dr. Nina Shapiro's engaging and informative...
Living in Death’s Shadow
Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
What is it like to live with—and love—someone whose death, while delayed, is nevertheless foretold? In Living in Death’s Shadow, Emily K. Abel, an expert on the history of death and dying, examines memoirs written between 1965 and 2014 by family members of people who died from chronic disease....
Imaging and Imagining the Fetus
The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven by the technological enthusiasms of doctors and engineers (and the commercial interests of manufacturers) and not by concern...
by Jeffrey S. Reznick, Kenneth M. Koyle
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The US National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its beginnings in the early 19th century. The world's largest medical library and a federal government agency, it maintains and makes publicly...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women...
by Patricia Prestinary
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Napa, because of its natural beauty and optimal conditions for �moral treatment,� was chosen as the second site for a state hospital to ease overcrowding in Stockton Asylum. When the fully self-sustaining Napa Asylum opened in 1875, it quickly filled to capacity and became home to many people suffering...