Medical History category: 1391 books
American Overdose
The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed,...
First World War Nursing
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets...
Plague and Fire
Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
A little over a century ago, bubonic plague--the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe--arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U.S. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax--a vast...
Mercury, Mining, and Empire
The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven...
Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health...
House on Fire
The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man...
by David Tolhurst
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use techniques in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were to form the basis of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and give rise to the specialty of plastic surgery. Descriptions of the intricate and...
Celestial Lancets
A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the implantation of very thin needles into subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle at a great number of different...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. The Handbook comprises...
Psychedelic Revolutionaries
LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
“Psychedelic Revolutionaries is not only beautifully written—it is timely. We are in the midst of a rebirth in interest in the psychedelic group of drugs with increasingly strong research evidence for their clinical benefits and a growing popular turn to daily ‘micro-dosing’ strategies. Everyone...
Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation
Perspectives from Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume...
A Right to Health
Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health care services and to redefine health as a citizens right and a duty of the state....
Terrors of the Table
The curious history of nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2006
Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the unwary and the foolish when it comes to the matter of food and health. Walter Gratzer tells the tale of nutrition's heroes, heroines...
Gerry Fitt and the SDLP
In a minority of one'
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The first academic study of the role of Gerry Fitt in the politics of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)