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Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 12
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources.
Nightingale’s work on nursing is now...
Pale Rider
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.
The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was...
Blood on Their Hands
How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big...
by Kara W. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
The Students and Teachers of Medicine During the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Looking back from the vantage-point of the 21st century, medieval medicine seems hopelessly antiquated and even alarmingly ignorant. But today's advanced medical technology wouldn't be possible without those distant historical foundations. In this comprehensive survey of medieval medicine from James J. Walsh, a fascinating picture emerges of the brave and intrepid pioneers who helped pave the way.
Tabiyat
Medicine and Healing in India and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book, aptly titled ‘Tabiyat’ which translates to ‘health’, ‘nature’, ‘temperament’ or ‘disposition’, is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays which explore some important discoveries, dwelling on their relevance in our daily lives. Including essays on...
by Edith Sheffer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**Shortlisted for the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize
A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.**
Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children...
Hidden Battles On Unseen Fronts Stories Of American Soldiers With Traumatic Brain Injury And Ptsd
Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
This book is crafted around soldiers' stories of their war experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan that culminate in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. An irony of America's 21st century wars has been that while our combat medical...
by Brian B. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Famous as the catalyst of the fight or flight response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a perfect, untraceable poison—and rumors persist of its power to revive the dead. True to the spirit of its topic, Adrenaline is a stimulating journey that reveals the truth behind adrenaline’s scientific importance and popular appeal.
by David Healy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing...
by Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature...
by Jonathan Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
In early modern Europe, ideas about nature, God, demons and occult forces were inextricably connected and much ink and blood was spilled in arguments over the characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. Seitz uses records of Inquisition witchcraft trials in Venice to uncover how...
The Maple Leaf and the White Cross
A History of St. John Ambulance and the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
As a foundation of the Order of St. John, St. John Ambulance has been providing first aid training programs in Canada for the past 125 years. From the sweatshops of the Victorian era and military hospitals of the First World War to a modern-day volunteer organization devoted to the service of humanity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Landmarks in Nephrology points the reader to some of the seminal observations which have led to the practice of nephrology as we know it today.Twenty areas of nephrology are covered by discrete chapters, with the editors selecting the ten most important papers ever published in that field. These range...