Medical History category: 1391 books
American Plagues
Lessons from Our Battles with Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today’s struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and...
A History of Global Health
Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health...
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100
Europe, America, and the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements...
Early Detection
Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Dispelling the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s, Kirsten E. Gardner traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth century. Focusing on breast cancer, but using research on cervical, ovarian, and uterine...
The Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen...
Doctor's Dictionary
Writings on Culture and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine—never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings his wide experience of medicine around the world, from the high-tech American...
Dr. Mayo’s Boy
A Century of American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Denton A. Cooley, MD “This book provides insight into a family tradition in medical service during the last century with three generations of physicians. It reveals the effect of the family doctor on the welfare of the family through personal contact. The many narratives the author describes show that...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
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by Madeline Bell
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia opened its doors in 1855 amidst a turbulent time in the city. Dr. Francis West Lewis, a prominent Philadelphia physician, was deeply disturbed by the appallingly high mortality rate among infants and children in his city, a result of the poor sanitary conditions...
Landmark Papers in Allergy
Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The increasing incidence and prevalence of allergic disease worldwide is one of the most remarkable phenomena of the past 50 years. One in three people in developed countries will experience an allergic condition at some point in their lives and advances in understanding the causes of this trend,...
by Hisao Ishizuka
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine. It explores the pivotal role fiber played as a defining, underlying concept in anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, psychology, and the life sciences. With the gradual demise...
Eloise
Poorhouse, Farm, Asylum and Hospital 1839-1984
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Eloise, which started out as a poorhouse, later became known as Wayne County General Hospital. From only 35 residents on 280 acres in 1839, the complex grew dramatically after the Civil War until the total land involved was 902 acres and the total number of patients was about 10,000. Today, all that...
New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home
More Durable than Marble
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organizations. In a thorough and engaging narrative, Pamela Tyler offers the first complete history of this remarkable New Orleans establishment from its founding...
Ask the Grey Sisters
Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998 tells the story of the creation and one-hundred-year history of the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital. At a time when Canada's healthcare system is at a crossroads and we are asked to make crucial decisions for its future,...