Medical History category: 1391 books
Nightingale's Legacy
The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Nightingale’s Legacy: The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders shows “the nurses of today” how to leverage the wisdom of the icons of nursing to inform their own daily work and fuel the future of nursing. The book examines the pivotal historical achievements of 20 prominent nurse leaders from Florence...
Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands...
Savage Will
The Daring Escape of Americans Trapped Behind Nazi Lines
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the tradition of incredible true stories from The Great Escape to Argo, Savage Will recounts a tale of survival, daring, and evasion behind enemy lines: that of American medics and nurses stranded for two months in Nazi-occupied Albania.
In 1943, men and women of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation...
When Germs Travel
Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this...
The Antivaccine Heresy
Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits...
by Keith Wailoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation...
Inventing the Feeble Mind
A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness,...
by Tish Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about...
Shocked
Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
As a young medical student, Dr. David Casarett was inspired by the story of a two-year-old girl named Michelle Funk. Michelle fell into a creek and was underwater for over an hour. When she was found she wasn’t breathing, and her pupils were fixed and dilated. But after three hours of persistent...
Body, Subject & Subjected
The Representation of the Body Itself, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Spain and Indigenous and Hispanic American Art & Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to...
Cook County ICU
30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
An inside look at one of the nation’s most famous public hospitals as seen through the eyes of its longtime director of intensive care
Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a 30-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the...
Fabulous Science
Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian'...
Shrinks
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane... [Shrinks] brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time." --Siddhartha Mukherjee
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells. But,...
Histories of Suicide
International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to...