Medical History category: 1391 books
Fall from Grace
A Physician’S Retrospective on the Past Fifty Years of Medicine and the Impact of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Fall from Grace is a candid, personal history of an academic physician and biotechnology executive that reflects on medicine as it was in the mid-twentieth century and chronicles the changes in society and medicine during the second half of that century. The book investigates the social revolution...
Celebrating the Past, Creating the Future, Improving Health Every Day
Sentara Healthcare Celebrates 125 Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Sentara has come a long way since the Retreat for the Sick opened in 1888. From its origins as a modest haven for Norfolk’s poor, Sentara has grown into a multi-faceted health system providing health care across Virginia and North Carolina. Sentara was fortunate to have generations of visionary leadership...
The Heart of Power, With a New Preface
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own...
Be Wise! Be Healthy!
Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. For well over a century, governments and voluntary groups have run educational campaigns encouraging Canadians to adopt health habits that promise to prolong lives, increase our quality of life, cost the state less, and make us more efficient workers. Be Wise!...
by Chryssi Bourbou
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in comparison with more visible aspects of Byzantine culture, such as works of art. The book is among the few publications on Greek Byzantine populations and helps pioneer a new approach...
Becoming Insomniac
How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures.
by Marius Turda, Aaron Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin', sharing genealogical, linguistic, religious, and cultural origins.
Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective offers a comparative,...
Africa in the Time of Cholera
A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony...
Health at Gunpoint
The FDA's War Against Health Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Who controls the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and whatare the real goals of this powerful agency? These are the centralquestions explored in Health at Gunpoint, a book that brings intoclear focus the silent war being waged by the FDA againstAmerican consumers.The FDA was established in 1906...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Rapid social change and the advances made in the field of health care have greatly changed the role and function of the nurse in the last fifty years. Nursing is now almost a full-fledged profession.
This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Nursing of the University of...
Unfortunate Folks
Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, Unfortunate Folks: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health treatment in New Zealand.
Environment, Society and the Black Death
An interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term...
Malarial Subjects
Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category...
The Black Death in Egypt and England
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began...