Medical History category: 1391 books
by Anna Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.
Political Corruption
In Beyond the Nation State
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book, combining scholarship with readability, shows that political corruption must itself be analysed politically. Spectacularly corrupt politicians - the exception rather than the rule - are usually symptoms, not causes, and much political corruption is simply normal politics taken to excess....
Family Practice Stories
Memories, Reflections, and Stories of Hoosier Family Doctors of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
An initiative of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Family Practice Stories is a collection of tales told by, and about, Hoosier family doctors practicing in the middle of the twentieth century. The stories celebrate that time in America...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Poliomyelitis was a dreaded illness in the 20th century until its eradication thanks to the Salk Vaccine that was introduce in 1954. My book looks at the impact made by infantile paralysis over a single region, i.e. the towns, cities and counties of upstate New York. I have detailed various measures...
You're the First One I've Told
The Faces of HIV in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease’s continued spread in the region—ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance...
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
Avoiding worst-case outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This paper explains how Iran developed its nuclear programme to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short time frame, and analyses Western policy responses aimed at forestalling that capability. Key questions are addressed: will the world have to accept an Iranian...
Hygienic Modernity
Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese...
Risk, Chance, and Causation
Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The press and other media constantly report news stories about dangerous chemicals in the environment, miracle cures, the safety of therapeutic treatments, and potential cancer-causing agents. But what exactly is actually meant by increased risk”-should we worry if we are told that we are at twice...
by Mrs. Edmund A. Souder
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Most people think of Gettysburg as the the three days of titanic struggle between the Union and Confederacy. The horror actually went on for weeks. "The sights and the sounds are beyond description. There are hundreds of men who will never leave the battle-field alive and hundreds more who have 'fought...
Working in the Killing Fields
Forensic Science in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the “disappeared.” The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, is no exception. In Working in the Killing Fields, Howard Ball focuses on recent...
The First Balloon-Expandable Coronary Stent
An Expedition That Changed Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The premise of this intriguing book is technical innovation and scientific development. It is about coronary and vascular stenting, a technique that has improved the plight of patients who have unfortunately succumbed to the most devastating epidemic facing modern man—coronary and vascular atherosclerosis....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly depe
by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field....
The Separating Sickness - Ma'i Ho'oka'awale
Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
This book is about the stigma of leprosy in Hawaii and how sick Hawaiian people were arrested and imprisoned for life because of their disease. It is a book about the fear of the unknown, pandemic, fear of sick people who cannot be cured quickly, or at all. It could happen again, mandatory isolation imposed as a Public Health policy for diseases not readily cured.