Medical History category: 1391 books
Disease and Discovery
A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists—there was little agreement about the skills...
Reinventing Depression
A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
To inform future research, treatment, and policy decisions, this book traces the scientific and social developments that shaped the current treatment model for depression in primary care over the past half century. While new strategies for diagnosing and treating depression have improved millions...
Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments
Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Paul...
Mobilizing Mercy
A History of the Canadian Red Cross
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed national history of the organization, Sarah Glassford reveals how the European-born Red Cross movement came to Canada and took root, and why it flourished....
The Politics of Madness
The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.
Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national...
History of Ophthalmology
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The First Brain
The Neuroscience of Planarians
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Planarians, a class of flatworm, are extraordinary: they possess the remarkable ability to regenerate lost body parts, including complete regeneration of the nervous system. If cut into pieces, each piece of the planarian can regenerate into a complete organism. They are also unique among invertebrates...
Burning Table Mountain
An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations...
Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950
Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and 'Immorality'
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Vice was one of the primary shared interests of the global community at the turn of the twentieth century. Anti-vice activists worked to combat noxious substances such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, and 'immoral' sexual activities such as prostitution. Nearly all of these activists approached the...
Ministering Angels
A History of Nursing from The Crimea to The Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In the eighteenth century professional nurses were often written off as drunk, slovenly, or cruel. In the Crimea, under Florence Nightingale's direction, they had become known as 'Ministering Angels'. By the Second World War they wore battledress and worked on the front lines, on Hospital ships and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system? This book provides some important answers to this question. It traces the history and development of nursing practice in Europe and North America, exploring two broad categories of nursing work: the ‘hands-on’...
Legacy of the Crossing
Life, Death, and Triumph among the Descendants of the World's Largest Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2017
International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD) was a multidisciplinary conference that explored the health condition of African descendants and what could be done to improve their health outcomes. e conference addressed a range of intersecting topics, including maternal and...
Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine.
• Provides readers...
No Truth Except in the Details
Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline...