Medical History category: 1391 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then. Recently, the need to renew that interdisciplinary dialogue between...
Empty Sleeves
Amputation in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation, surgeons labored mightily to adjust to the medical quagmire of war. And as Brian Craig Miller shows...
Buddhism and Medicine
An Anthology of Premodern Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern...
by George Campbell Gosling
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. There...
Conceptualising Public Health
Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In Germanic and Nordic languages, the term for ‘public health’ literally translates to ‘people’s health’, for example Volksgesundheit in German, folkhälsa in Swedish and kansanterveys in Finnish. Covering a period stretching from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this book...
by Lt. Col. J. L. Beetson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
From ancient times it has been the custom of removing wounded soldiers from the battlefield and caring for them. They were usually taken to temporary shelters and given what care was available for that time period. Homer's Iliad makes brief mention of Machaon and Podalirius, the earliest known mention...
Immunization
How Vaccines became Controversial
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
One of the most important tools in the public health arsenal, vaccines are to thank for the global eradication of smallpox, and for allowing us to defeat the dire threat of infectious disease for more than one hundred years. Vaccine development is where scientists turn when faced with the frightening...
Fleshing out surfaces
Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that...
Strange Harvest
Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study,...
The Search for Human Chromosomes
A History of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book is a broadly historical account of a remarkable and very exciting scientific story–the search for the number of human chromosomes. It covers the processes and people, culminating in the realization that discovering the number of human chromosomes brought as much benefit as unraveling...
Paleopathology of the Ancient Egyptians
An Annotated Bibliography 1995–2016 Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This updated and expanded annotated bibliography presents and describes over 1,200 books, dissertations, excavation reports, and articles relevant to the paleopathology of the ancient Egyptians from the fields of Egyptology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, making it possible for...
A Spirit of Charity
Restoring the Bond Between America and Its Public Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Most Americans view the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions -- some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly profitable medical industrial complex....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
2014 winner of the American Association for the History of Nursing’s Mary M. Roberts Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing!
The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing brings together leading scholars and scholarship...
by Charles Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) : from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague
The Middle Age of European history has no naturally fixed beginning or ending. The period of Antiquity may be taken as concluded by the fourth Christian century, or by the fifth or by the sixth;...