Medical History category: 1391 books
The Barbary Plague
The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. . . . The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing...
What Disturbs Our Blood
A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon escape from a family curse.
Like his friends Banting and Best, Dr. John Fitzgerald was a Canadian hero. He founded Connaught Labs, saved untold lives with his vaccines and transformed...
The Demon Under the Microscope
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics....
We Band of Angels
The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in...
Industrial Housewives
Women's Social Work in the Factories of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Focusing on women and their work, this valuable historical study traces industrial social work from its inception through the Nazi period. Author Sachse provides an analysis of policies applied to women workers rather than developed by and for them--as an example of how social policy treats women....
Golden Holocaust
Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge bring...
Pandora's Lab
Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?
History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids...
A Chosen Calling
Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an evolved genetic predisposition to scientific...
by Richard Melzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the region�s clean, dry, fresh...
by Richard A. McKay
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
Sex Ed, Segregated
The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, sex education burgeoned in the United States through institutions like the YMCA, the popular press, girls' schools, and the US military. As access to sexual knowledge increased, reformers debated what the messages of a sex-education...
The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank
Inside Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Sigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud’s...