Medical History category: 1391 books
The Antibiotic Era
Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In The Antibiotic Era, physician-historian Scott H. Podolsky narrates the far-reaching history of antibiotics, focusing particularly on reform efforts that attempted to fundamentally change how antibiotics are developed and prescribed. This sweeping chronicle reveals the struggles faced by crusading...
Defending the Indefensible
The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
In the early twentieth century, asbestos had a reputation as a lifesaver. In 1960, however, it became known that even relatively brief exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma, a virulent and lethal cancer. Yet the bulk of the world's asbestos was mined after 1960. Asbestos usage in many countries...
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases...
by Alice Kuzniar
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.
Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical...
The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England
Constructing the Market by the Potency of Print
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era. Patent medicines constituted a national industry which was largely popular,...
by David Weatherall
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established. Written by Sir David Weatherall, an expert in molecular medicine and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, this tells the story of early...
Anatomy Museum
Death and the Body Displayed
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with...
Risky Medicine
Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health? Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in Risky Medicine. In fact, it often is hurting us.
Exploring...
Misery to Mirth
Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading....
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
The Case of Nanette Leroux
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Gathered here for the first time is a rare and carefully chosen collection that depicts the rich and varied experiences of Army nurses during the First World War as recorded by U.S. Army Signal...
Medicine Across Cultures
History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memory and representations...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities....