Medical History category: 1391 books
A Special Hell
Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer,...
by Philippa Levine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed...
Life Atomic
A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s...
by George Makari
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.
Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story...
Physicians, Plagues and Progress
The History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Since the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and complex journey, seeking to find out how our bodies work, and what heals them. Embarking on a four-thousand-year odyssey, science historian Allan Chapman...
The Ascent of Affect
Genealogy and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings.
Ruth Leys’s...
by Peter B. Villella
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues that the composite, neo-Aztec flavor of Mexican identity was, in part, a consequence of active efforts...
Newfoundland Drugstores
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Although primarily associated with filling doctors' prescriptions and selling medicines and other items for self-care, historically drugstores have also been operated as general stores, selling an intriguing range of toiletries, perfumery, confectionery, seeds for the garden, and household items....
In Our Control
The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors. In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women's health activist Laura Eldridge...
Lead Wars
The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health...
The Curious Cures Of Old England
Eccentric treatments, outlandish remedies and fearsome surgeries for ailments from the plague to the pox
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the time, many of these cures...
by Diane L. Goeres-Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Oregon State Insane Asylum was opened in Salem on October 23, 1883, and is one of the oldest continuously operated mental hospitals on the West Coast. In 1913, the name was changed to the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). The history of OSH parallels the development and growth in psychiatric knowledge...
by J. Michael Moore, Anna Schuleit Haber
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Northampton State Hospital, established in 1856, was built with the optimistic spirit of humanitarian reform. For many years, it was run by Dr. Pliny Earle, a champion of treatment that combined individualized care with manual labor, religious worship, recreation, and amusement. This vision was overwhelmed...
Revolutionary Medicine
The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America
Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be
abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious
diseases and...