Medical History category: 1391 books
Dialysing for Life
The Development of the Artificial Kidney
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment. Seeing so many wounded young soldiers die due to renal failure in World War I incited the German doctor...
Working in a world of hurt
Trauma and resilience in the narratives of medical personnel in warzones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps
It All Depends on the Dose
Poisons and Medicines in European History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can...
by Bernard Fantus
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
I. Historical Introduction
II. Tabellae Dulces
III. The Uses of Sweet Tablets
IV. The Making of Sweet Tablets
V. The Tablet Machine
VI. The Construction of Formulae for Sweet Tablets
Choice...
Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two countries helped to disseminate a culture of research, resulting in the transformation of the medical sciences...
Russia in the Time of Cholera
Disease under Romanovs and Soviets
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing...
by Andy Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
At about 0600 hours on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 while leading a patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Corporal Andy Reid, 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, was blown up by a Taliban improvised explosive device (IED). Airlifted back to the UK that evening to the specialist military wing of...
Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900
Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
Itinerary — Linen Holdall with surgical instruments — Surgical outfit — Personal transport — General health of the troops — Climate —...
Kontroversen im Werdegang wissenschaftlichen Wissens
Wie in der frueheren Geschwulstforschung darum gestritten wurde, was ein «Krebsvirus» ist
Language: German
Release Date: March 27, 2019
An einem der Geschichte der Krebsforschung entnommenen Fall wird untersucht, wie sich Wissensentwicklung zum Wandel sozialer Formen des Forscherverkehrs verhält und welche Rolle dabei wissenschaftliche Kontroversen spielen: Sie zersetzen nicht allein überkommene Paradigmen, sondern überdies die...
Negotiating nursing
British Army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female...
Jenner
Untersuchungen über die Ursachen und Wirkungen der Kuhpocken
Language: German
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Wolfgang U. Eckart, Direktor des Instituts für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin an der Universität Heidelberg, kommentiert aus heutiger Sicht die hier wiedergegebene erste deutsche Übersetzung von Edward Jenners Werk "An inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolae Vaccinae". Sie...
by Carlos Martín Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Compendio de la sabiduría y de las estrategias de la antigua y misteriosa civilización china.
China ya es una superpotencia: conviene saber cómo piensan en "el imperio del centro".
Estas estrategias fueron escritas en China a lo largo del tiempo por personas muy diferentes:...
The Butchering Art
Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian
"Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead...
by Cherry Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London.
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the disease...