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The Anatomical Renaissance
The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resurrected not merely the methods but also the research projects of Aristotle and other Ancients. The...
Colonizing Leprosy
Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilized, and means of intervention chosen to tame drugs in factories, consulting rooms and courts.
by Ji Won Chung
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.
by Holly Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
“Excellent. . . . Tucker’s chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating.”—The Economist
In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf’s blood into one of Paris’s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis...
by Jacques Pepin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence...
Catching Cancer
The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The idea that you can “catch” cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible to do just that. Catching Cancer takes you inside a medical revolution and reveals the struggles of the scientists who persisted with their novel ideas despite opposition, disbelievers,...
by J. B. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
**In 410 A. D., King Alaric and the Visigoths besieged and sacked Rome.
“The eternal city”, which had been the centre of one of greatest empires ever to have existed, had been taken by Rome’s enemies and her wealth plundered.**
But although Rome had fallen, this was not the end...
Raising the Dead
The Men Who Created Frankenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, "Frankenstein", introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this incredible Gothic adventure. Few, however, realised that Shelley's story had a basis in fact. What...
The Dispensaries
Healthcare for the Poor Before the Nhs
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Dispensaries were created in cities to look after poor sick people from about 1770 until the beginning of the NHS in 1948. They were created by relatively wealthy citizens who became subscribers to these institutions. They saw this as an act of philanthropy, and each subscriber was given a book of...
A Surgical Temptation
The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation...
The Anatomy of Murder
Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to...
by K. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
An exploration of the philosophical foundation of modern medicine which explains why such a medicine possesses the characteristics it does and where precisely its strengths as well as its weaknesses lie. Written in plain English, it should be accessible to anyone who is intellectually curious, lay persons and medical professionals alike.
North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the...