Den Themenbereich zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin eroffnet Robert Jutte mit einer Untersuchung des Gesundheits- und Krankheitsverhaltens des deutsch-judischen Opernkomponisten Giacomo Meyerbeer anhand dessen umfangreicher Tagebucher.
Die Novelle der Arztlichen Approbationsordnung von 2002 sah fur das Medizinstudium die curriculare Etablierung der Medizinethik zusammen mit der Medizingeschichte und der Medizintheorie in einem Querschnittsfach vor.
En este libro presenta algunos medicamentos y procedimientos terapeuticos que en el pasado fueron parte de la medicina oficial, es decir, el lector no encontrara aqui ni las medicinas tradicionales, ni las alternativas o paralelas.
Strange Histories of Medicine: Curious Stories from the Human Search for Healing is an accessible popular science book about the long, fascinating, and often unsettling history of medicine.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, 'Jack the Ripper: The Facts' recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of all time.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011'Profound, eloquent and searching' SUNDAY TIMES'Essential reading' INDEPENDENT'Masterly' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FARRiveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.
Everyone knows Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in a moldy petri dish, but a forgotten truth lies in how that fragile discovery actually reached the battlefield.
A pesar de que la politica sanitaria reformista fue uno de los pilares de los sucesivos gobiernos de la Republica, durante la Guerra Civil se tuvo que reorganizar la sanidad para poder atender las necesidades asistenciales derivadas del estado de guerra y miles de profesionales sanitarios tuvieron que dejar sus carreras.
A pesar de que la politica sanitaria reformista fue uno de los pilares de los sucesivos gobiernos de la Republica, durante la Guerra Civil se tuvo que reorganizar la sanidad para poder atender las necesidades asistenciales derivadas del estado de guerra y miles de profesionales sanitarios tuvieron que dejar sus carreras.
Im spaten achtzehnten Jahrhundert gelang der britischen Marine ein beispielloser medizinischer Triumph: Durch die strikte Ausgabe von frischem Zitrussaft wurde der todliche Skorbut scheinbar fur immer von den Weltmeeren verbannt.
In the dimly lit laboratories of the nineteenth century, scientists faced a profound barrier: the human brain was a gelatinous, featureless mass under a microscope.
The British Navy famously conquered the devastating plague of scurvy in the eighteenth century by mandating daily rations of citrus juice, seemingly solving maritime medicine's greatest mystery.
In April 1955, the United States celebrated the ultimate medical triumph: Jonas Salk had developed a vaccine that would finally eradicate the terror of polio.
For centuries, the brightest medical minds in the world believed that diseases like cholera, the plague, and malaria were caused by "e;miasma"e;-a toxic, foul-smelling vapor emanating from rotting organic matter.
Die Erbforscher Heinrich Poll, Gunther Just und Fritz Steiniger haben vor und wahrend der NS-Zeit umfangreich publiziert, sind jedoch bisher wenig beachtet worden.
