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The Age of Stress
Science and the Search for Stability
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
We are living in a stressful world, yet despite our familiarity with the notion, stress remains an elusive concept. In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals how the science that legitimates and fuels current...
Clinical Problems in Dentistry
50 Osces and Scrs for the Post Graduate Dentist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Clinical Problems in Dentistry 50 OSCEs and SCRs.
This book gives both an understanding and an approach to pass both MFDS and MJDF exams. Detailed cases from real patients will enable the postgraduate dentist to gain an appreciation of the standards required and the professional behaviours...
by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This volume will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers, medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policymakers. The book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease. It includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease.
The Lomidine Files
The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
After the Second World War, French colonial health services, armed with a newly discovered drug, made the eradication of sleeping sickness their top priority. A single injection of Lomidine (known as Pentamidine in the United States) promised to protect against infection for six months or longer....
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Reality of a Fashionable Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky...
Conquering Lyme Disease
Science Bridges the Great Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, with more than 300,000 cases diagnosed each year. However, doctors are deeply divided on how to diagnose and treat it, giving rise to the controversy known as the “Lyme Wars.” Firmly entrenched camps have emerged, causing...
Cancer on Trial
Oncology as a New Style of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. The randomized clinical trials that today sustain modern oncology...
Tangled Diagnoses
Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of that medical attention, but prenatal diagnosis...
Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War
More Than Binding Men’s Wounds
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
They are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversy—and because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold. Laurie Stoff's pioneering work brings the wartime experiences of Russia's "Sisters of...
Healing with water
English spas and the water cure, 1840–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries
by Claire Brock
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural,...
Plague Hospitals
Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in particular the prevention and treatment of plague. The lazaretti served as isolation hospitals, quarantine centres, convalescent homes, cemeteries, and...
Advice to the Healer
On the Art of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine and related healing professions. Reinforcing the humanistic side of patient care, this book replicates the tips, anecdotes and aphorisms often related by mentors and educators to medical students, residents, and...