Medical History category: 1391 books
Comparative Osteology
A Laboratory and Field Guide of Common North American Animals
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
In the forensic context it is quite common for nonhuman bones to be confused with human remains and end up in the medical examiner or coroner system. It is also quite common for skeletal remains (both human and nonhuman) to be discovered in archaeological contexts. While the difference between human...
by Dr. Bruce Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
**A look at eye surgery in New Zealand and its many, often colourful, practitioners.**This book throws new light on eye surgery from our colonial days to the present. Some early surgeons were itinerants who operated in hotel rooms and advertised like snake-oil salesmen. In contrast, others were at...
Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt
Multidisciplinary essays for Rosalie David
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Prof. Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on Egyptian human remains, reassessments...
Bugs in Armor
A Tale of Malaria and Soldiering
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
From military expeditions in antiquity to peacekeeping missions in the twentieth century, malaria has been the single most important medical problem confronting nonimmune troops in malarious regions. Its devastating effects were clearly visible during both world wars. During the Macedonian campaign...
Sir Thomas Lewis
Pioneer Cardiologist and Clinical Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sir Thomas Lewis has become one of the greatest cardiologists of this century. He was foremost in using the newly invented electrocardiograph to diagnose heart disease and was a pioneer of cardiac electro-physiology. This is the first biography of Sir Thomas Lewis, who became famous, whilst still...
Abortion Under Apartheid
Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and "backstreet" abortionists, and the passage in 1975...
Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel
Dealing with Epidemics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic.
Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports...
Custody, Care & Criminality
Forensic Psychiatry in 19th Century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In this important work, Dr. Brendan Kelly explores the background to Irish psychiatry in the 1800s and its development. Using detailed case studies from the original records, the author examines some of the more bizarre treatments explored, and the history behind them. What emerges is a collection...
Smoking Privileges
Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical...
by Donald W. Gullett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Beginning with the earliest records available describing the dental health of the Indians before the arrival of European settlers, Dr Gullett gives a detailed and carefully documented history of dentistry in Canada. He describes the unscrupulous tramp dentists who roamed the countryside years ago...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. A glance at a newspaper or news program between May through June of 2014 tells the story. The Ebola virus developed into the foremost major crisis in West Africa, more specifically Liberia....
Wounds of War
How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country—one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and...
Curing queers'
Mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality...
by Catherine Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the ‘military medical officer’ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century.