Medical History category: 1391 books
From Poison Arrows to Prozac
How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In the 16th century, when explorers traveled deeper into the jungles of South America in search of gold and spices, they brought back many colorful tales of their adventures to amaze and impress their sponsors. None of these tales was more astonishing, or caused more concern, than that of the mystical...
Mary Seacole
The Making of the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth is the first book to challenge the popular misconceptions that surround Mary Seacole’s iconic status as a “pioneer nurse” and battlefield heroine, intended, by some, to replace Florence Nightingale in those roles. McDonald masterfully disentangles reality...
Mad in America
Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded...
Lamaze
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the alleviation of pain in childbirth...
by Sheryl Persson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, founded in 1928, was the first comprehensive aerial medical organisation in the world and today, 80 years later, continues to provide emergency and primary healthcare, as well as assistance with communication and education, to people who live, work and travel...
New Directions in Nursing History
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship.
Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address:
the issues of professionalism...
by Howard Chiang
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.
Back to the Breast
Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the ’70s, Jessica Martucci reveals here that the true...
The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
Culture, Disease, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies...
A Century of Challenge
A History of the Ontario Veterinary College
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
In lively fashion Mr. Gattinger records the development of the Ontario Veterinary College, the oldest continuously operating veterinary school in this hemisphere. Viewing its history from the perspective of today, he sees the College and the profession it serves moving in response to the times, from...
by John Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Observations on Madness and Melancholy by John Haslam is an authoritative work on madness, insanity and melancholy - terms that are used in the pejorative in most circumstances. Haslam provides the definitions, symptoms and observations for these medical conditions. The unique characteristic of this...
by James L. Streeter, William J. Tischer
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Established in 1705, the town of Groton is geographically located between the Thames and Mystic Rivers in the southeastern corner of Connecticut. The town is comprised of eight separate subdivision communities that are referred to as fire districts. Groton is also the home to a large naval submarine...
Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
Circulation of Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686). It tells the story of a student who is forced to defend himself against his professor who tries to plagiarize his...
The Modern Nursing
its history and development
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The development of sick-nursing is one of the most notable features of modern social life. This book presents the history of the modern nursing and its development by a pioneer nurse named Florence Nightingale.
Nursing is as old as the human species. Even among animals, such as they are at present,...