Medical History category: 1391 books
by Roger Cooter, Claudia Stein
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual...
Healing Histories
Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Healing Histories is the first detailed collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital...
The History and Evolution of Healthcare in America
The Untold Backstory of Where We’Ve Been, Where We Are, and Why Healthcare Needs Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
From the beginning of mankind, health and health issues have played a major role in life, but the issues and care have evolved enormously from the time when the first settlers set foot in America to the present. In The History and Evolution of Healthcare in America, author Thomas W. Loker provides...
This Mortal Coil
The Human Body in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like 'human nature', it represents the unchanging in a changing world. Bodies just are... But the body does...
A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics
Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The so called 'Russian flu' killed about 1 million people across Europe in 1889 – including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people –...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In recent decades, there has been considerable interest in writing histories of medicine that capture local, regional, and global dimensions of health and health care in the same frame. Exploring changing patterns of disease and different systems of medicine across continents and countries, A Global...
PTSD
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Post-traumatic stress disorder—and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier’s heart, railroad spine, and shell shock—was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic impacts of train crashes, wars, and sexual shocks among children first drew...
by John M. Howard, Walter Hess
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Never before has a comprehensive history of the pancreas like History of the Pancreas been published. It not only is a historical review of the science of medicine, it is liberally interspersed with anecdotal vignettes of the researchers who have worked on this organ. Much of it, such as the discovery...
A History of Color
The Evolution of Theories of Light and Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the first comprehensive text on the history of color theories since Halbertsma's book of 1947. Color is discussed in close connection with the evolution of ideas of light and vision. The book has chapters on the ancient Greek ideas of vision and color; on the contributions of Arabic science;...
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine
From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Why has the history of Western herbal medicine received such little research coverage in any systematic and authoritative way, even though it has figured large in both lay and learned healthcare of the past? What methods and sources are most appropriate for the study of medicinal herbs and herbal...
by Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
"[An] engrossing survey of the history of childbirth." —Stephen Lowman, Washington Post
Making and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys...
Viruses, Plagues, and History
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses....
The History of Sunnybrook Hospital
Battle to Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
*Heritage Toronto Book Award **— *Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Book
The story of Sunnybrook is one of perseverance by many dogged pioneers, rebelling and innovating to keep the organization alive.
The story of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is one of battle and rebellion in the pursuit...