Medical History category: 1391 books
The Mirror of Beryl
A Historical Introduction to Tibetan Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Composed while its author was the ruler of Tibet, Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century. Its author, Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653 - 1705), was the heart disciple and political successor of the Great Fifth Dalai...
On Uganda's Terms
A Journal by an American Nurse-Midwife Working for Change in Uganda, East Africa During Idi Amin's Regime
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
On Uganda's Terms is the gripping tale of the author's experiences as an American nurse during the vicious and brutal reign of Idi Amin. Ms. Hale tells the story of the struggles she faced while striving to improve the Ugandan health care system in the 1960s - 70s. Recalling a saying from the Talmud—"If...
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West
Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. Fittingly, the volume honors Professor John M. Riddle, one of today's most respected medieval historians, whose career has been...
Miracles and Medicine
New Chapters in the Warfare of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Nothing in the evolution of human thought appears more inevitable than the idea of supernatural intervention in producing and curing disease. The causes of disease are so intricate that they are reached only after ages of scientific labor. In those periods when man sees everywhere miracle and nowhere...
The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy
The National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (1870-1895)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world’s first neurological hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its leading figure, John Hughlings Jackson...
by J. Lawson Dick
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
After World War I, housing was one of many pressing issues facing the country with multiple families often crowded in together in inadequate housing. This had a dramatic impact on health with increasing problems such as tuberculosis and malnutrition. Originally published in 1919, this study aimed...
Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine
The Antibiotic Makers
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes the actinomycetes were discovered...
by Helen King
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in...
The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain
Health, Wealth and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were...
Border Medicine
A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Mexican
American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S.
border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenous
and Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats...
Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control
The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
"I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently educated English husband would allow even his wife to have ità." Such was the uncompromising pronouncement of Sir Hardinge Gifford, Her Majesty's Solicitor...
Malleable Anatomies
Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as important social, cultural, and...
by Michael Stannard
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) is revered as Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century author. Writing in the realist tradition of Dickens, Zola and Balzac, he described life in Madrid with unequalled fidelity. In addition, he was unique among novelists of his time in his knowledge of medicine, revealed...
The Body in Balance
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas,...