Medical History category: 1391 books
by Ian Burney, Neil Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Crime scene investigation—or CSI—has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. But where did this...
by Margaret Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care.
Any printed material now available on the...
Diagnosing Genius
The Life and Death of Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Mai's experience as a physician and psychiatrist serves as a basis for his analysis. Working from the symptoms described in the medical evidence, Beethoven's letters and those of his friends, and the reports of his physicians, Mai compares how Beethoven's health complaints would have been understood...
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of...
Make Room for Daddy
The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2009
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. She shows how, as men moved first from the hospital...
Let Me Heal
The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M. Ludmerer provides the first-ever account of the residency system for training doctors in the United States. He traces its development from its nineteenth-century roots through its present-day struggles to cope with new, bureaucratic work-hour regulations...
Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance
The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497-1558)
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic...
by John M. Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives....
by JOSEPH MACLISE
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The object of this work is to present to the student of medicine and the practitioner removed from the schools, a series of dissections demonstrative of the relative anatomy of the principal regions of the human body. Whatever title may most fittingly apply to a work with this intent, whether it had...
by Elizabeth And Emily Blackwell, Henry Carrington Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Early Practice of Medicine by Women : history and testimony.
"From the earliest times women have successfully grappled with a most difficult branch of medical science, gynecology, but long-existing and deep-seated prejudices prevented an extension of their practice, and save in exceptional cases...
Biomedical Computing
Digitizing Life in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Imagine biology and medicine today without computers. What would laboratory work be like if electronic databases and statistical software did not exist? Would disciplines like genomics even be feasible if we lacked the means to manage and manipulate huge volumes of digital data? How would patients...
by Barbara Bridgman Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy."...
Engineering Health
How Biotechnology Changed Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biochemical systems to advance knowledge of the molecular cause of disease and to provide new diagnostic tools and more precisely targeted drugs. Within a decade, global investment in medical biotechnology has increased more than ten-fold, resulting in therapies...
The One-Eyed Surgeon with Only One Thumb
Adventures with My Dad, Harry C. Barber, Md, Facs
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
This book tells of the life of an extraordinary physician who overcame a teenage hunting accident in which he lost his left thumb and left eye. Through hard work and diligence, he became an excellent surgeon and medical leader in Central Illinois. The highlight of his career was the two years during...