Medical History category: 1391 books
The Intentional Brain
Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Neuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Later, neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy,...
The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine
Writing Recent Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated with growing frequency and urgency.
Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography...
The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals
Echoes from the Corridors
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way. This comprehensive volume is the first book in over twenty years to explore the history of mental health nursing, and during this period the landscape has transformed as the large institutions...
The Social Construction of Disease
From Scrapie to Prion
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research...
History of Ophthalmology
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Localization and Its Discontents
A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile,...
History of Ophthalmology 4
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Intemationalis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Raw Material
Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England’s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O’Connor...
Malignant Growth
Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful...
From an Association to a Royal College
The History of the British Paediatric Association and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 1988-2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book describes the history of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) covering the period from 1988 to 2014, which includes the transition from the British Paediatric Association (BPA) to the formation of the now established RCPCH.
The book contains a collection of viewpoints...
by Steven Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and...
Unknown Warriors
The Letters of Kate Luard, RRC and Bar, Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The words of Unknown Warriors resonate as powerfully today as when first written. It offers a very personal glimpse into the hidden world of the military field hospital, where patients struggled with pain and trauma and nurses fought to save lives and preserve emotional integrity. The book's author...
History of Ophthalmology 5
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine
From Tytus Chalubinski (1820–1889) to Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961)
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My 'discovery' of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck's epistemology. These studies, and my interest in the scientific roots of Fleck's epistemology were a nearly 'natural' result of my own biography: like Fleck I had been trained, an...