Medical History category: 1391 books
On Race and Medicine
Insider Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language...
Fractured States
Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious...
Vanishing Bone
Conquering a Stealth Disease Caused by Total Hip Replacements
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
When dozens of holes appeared in a patient's femur alongside his hip prosthesis, experts were baffled as such a phenomenon had never been seen before. Over the first four decades of total hip surgery, the severe bone destruction multiplied, crippling many thousands of patients. Eventually identified...
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France
Stories of Gender and Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and...
The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany
Medicine and Botany
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded...
Science between Europe and Asia
Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with...
The Malaria Project
The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.
American war planners, foreseeing the...
by Edward Shorter
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international differences...
by Niall McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012
During their careers, many students become aware that, lurking in the background, there are complex and conceptually difficult questions that, all too often, their teachers either can't answer, or can't even understand. These are traditionally the questions addressed by philosophy, and this little...
by A Habituate
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
"Civil War Era Medicine: Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate" is by an anonymous Northern Civil War soldier who became hooked on opium as a result of his wartime service.
During the American Civil War, a fair number of soldiers became addicted to opium either...
Colonial caring
A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects. They were ideally placed to insinuate the ‘improving’ culture of their employers into the local communities they served, and travelled...
by David Baronov
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Beginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange contends that...
by Cara Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
The story of Faulkner Hospital begins with the Faulkner family. Dr. George Faulkner�s ancestry includes one of the first woolens manufacturers, a Revolutionary War colonel, and an accused Salem witch. When Dr. Faulkner�s daughter Mary died, the hospital was established in her honor. Paul Revere�s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Neurology abounds with eponyms--Babinski's sign, Guillain-Barre' syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, etc. Neurologists and neuroscientists, however, are often hazy about the origin of these terms. This book brings together 55 of the most common eponyms related to the neurological examination, neuroanatomy,...