Medical History category: 1391 books
by Tomasz F. Mroczkowski MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The book is about the history of five hundred years old epidemic of syphilis which began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World. From the very beginning, this disease caused fear and consternation, due to its violent course, repulsive skin manifestations and high mortality.
Over the...
Formative Years
Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Howard Markel is the George Edward Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and...
Fake Silk
The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores...
by Frederick Lyman Hills
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book presents a short and interesting history of Psychiatry.
"Among the achievements of the nineteenth century none surpass the revolution wrought in the field of psychiatry.
Going back into the very dawn of history we find scattered references to the treatment of madness, which was looked...
Clean
A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Why do we still have nits? What exactly are 'purity rules'? And why have baths scarcely changed in 200 years? The long history of personal hygiene and purity is a fascinating subject that reveals how closely we are linked to our deeper past. In this pioneering book, Virginia Smith covers the global...
by Robert Peckham
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies across the region: from India to China and the Russian Far East. The book tracks the links between biology,...
Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century
The Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the development of nursing as a profession and the politics...
by Roy J. Shephard
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.”...
A Brief History of Pharmacy
Humanity's Search for Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Pharmacy has become an integral part of our lives. Nearly half of all 300 million Americans take at least one prescription drug daily, accounting for $250 billion per year in sales in the US alone. And this number doesn't even include the over-the-counter medications or health aids that are taken....
Setting Nutritional Standards
Theory, Policies, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017 Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways...
An Anatomy of Addiction
Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon—showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine.
When Freud and Halsted began...
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney
How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great Reads
What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of...
The Lady and Her Monsters
A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts how—at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution—Shelley’s...
Breakthrough
Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment – starvation – whittles her down to forty-five...