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Within and Without the Nation
Canadian History as Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation brings scholars from a range of disciplines together...
by J.P. Webster
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the dangerously criminal. By 1906, the city had purchased a vast acreage...
The History of the World Federation of Neurology
The First 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Since its founding in 1957, the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) has been deeply integrated in the development of international collaboration in the field of neurology, and has played a key part in asserting with dissemination of information and the need to learn from each other, independent of...
A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970
Concepts, Practices, and Ethical challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s. The author discusses largely forgotten premodern concepts like cura palliativa and euthanasia medica and describes, how patients...
by Ronald Batt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The early history of endometriosis is interwoven with the history of adenomyosis, since it was not until the mid nineteen-twenties that the two conditions were finally separated. A History of Endometriosis provides a detailed reconstruction of the progress made in identifying, describing and treating the condition we call today endometriosis.
Deadly Companions
How Microbes Shaped our History
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself...
Pandemic
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?
Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they’ve never been seen before. Ninety...
Quack Doctor
Historical Remedies for All Your Ills
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the harangues of mountebanks to the dubious advertisements in Victorian newspapers, quackery sports a colorful history. Featuring entertaining advertisements from historical newspapers, this book investigates the inventive ways in which quack remedies were promoted – and whether the people...
Madness:A Brief History
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy...
by William Bynum
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimental...
The Smile Revolution
In Eighteenth-Century Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France...
Psychiatry in Indiana
The First 175 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In Psychiatry in Indiana: The First 175 Years, authors Philip M. Coons, M.D., and Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D., paint a fascinating, compelling, and vibrant portrait of the history of psychiatry in Indiana from its beginnings when Indiana was a territory up through present day, relying on meticulous...
Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing
From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around genomics.
The Contagious City
The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...