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Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway
Conceptualizing Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art.
Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black Books from the vantage...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Plagues have inflicted misery and suffering throughout history. They can be traced through generations in our genes, with echoes in religion and literature. Featuring essays arising from the 2014 Darwin College Lectures, this book examines the spectrum of tragic consequences of different types of...
by Mike Jay
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A compelling and evocatively illustrated exploration of the evolution of the asylum, and its role in society over the course of four centuries
This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial home:...
Asylum on the Hill
History of a Healing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century “gold standard” specifications...
History of Ophthalmology
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Outbreak!
50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics!
Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:
The...
Lavender Water & Snail Syrup
Mrs Ambler's Household Book of Georgian Cures and Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Elizabeth Ambler started compiling her household book of cures in the early 18th century, including in it treatments which are much older. These intriguing remedies include Sir Walter Raleigh’s Receipt against Plague, Viper Broth, Snail Milk Water, and Tobacco for the Eyes, as well as Ginger Bread...
Tears for My Sisters
The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Millions of women suffer from obstetric fistula, a catastrophic childbirth complication that exists today mainly in the world’s poorest countries. Fistulas are created by the prolonged pressure of the fetal head in the birth canal during obstructed labor, which grievously injures a woman’s bladder,...
A history of the case study
Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of multiple...
One Doctor
Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Told by a unique voice in American medicine, this epic story recounts life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician, and is described by The New York Times as “a true service [to history]. Dr. Reilly deserves a resounding bravo for telling it like it is.” Malcolm Gladwell...
Hippokrates
Meister der Heilkunst
Language: German
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Bereits die Zeitgenossen priesen den griechischen Arzt Hippokrates von Kos für seine Heilkunst. Sein Wissen war so überragend, dass seine Schriften wie ein Kristallisationskern auf medizinische Texte anderer Ärzte wirkten und in der Überlieferung mit diesen eine Einheit bildeten - das Corpus...
The Cancer Chronicles
Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion...
Miracle Cure
The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.
As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less...