History of medicine

Drawing on a selection of the most important Sanskrit alchemical works from the ninth to sixteenth centuries, Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts provides an introduction to South Asian alchemy, tracing and explaining alchemical thought as it developed on the Indian subcontinent.

Drawing on a selection of the most important Sanskrit alchemical works from the ninth to sixteenth centuries, Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts provides an introduction to South Asian alchemy, tracing and explaining alchemical thought as it developed on the Indian subcontinent.

The first edition of The Struggle for Health was published in 1985 and was widely acclaimed by those seeking a broader and deeper political understanding of ill health, beyond the medical model of care.

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola.

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola.

Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound.

Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions.

The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history.

The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history.

Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound.

Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the public at large.

Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the public at large.

To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and practices from around the world.

To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and practices from around the world.

Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer is a remarkable figure, both in the development of mathematics and in wider Dutch history.

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself.

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself.

Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century.

Conocida como la Sibila del Rin por los escritos en los que relata sus visiones, Hildegarda de Bingen cultivo muy diversas areas del saber, de la teologia a la musica.

The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers.

Vanished in Hiawatha is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Vanished in Hiawatha is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders.

Die akute Appendizitis gilt in der heutigen Zeit als die haufigste operationsbedurftige Erkrankung des Bauchraums und als die Hauptursache des akuten Abdomen.

Die akute Appendizitis gilt in der heutigen Zeit als die haufigste operationsbedurftige Erkrankung des Bauchraums und als die Hauptursache des akuten Abdomen.

From the herbal remedies of ancient civilizations to the precision technologies of modern hospitals, A Short History of Medicine offers a clear and engaging journey through the ideas, discoveries, and people that transformed human health.

From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures.

Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless concentration camp inmates.

Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women's Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how women used herbal remedies to maintain bodily autonomy and how that autonomy was progressively eroded with the rise of plant-based tropane solanaceae alkaloids, and later, synthetic and anaesthetic drugs.

In Prescription for Heterosexuality, Carolyn Herbst Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early Cold War years.

Harry Benjamin (18851986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine.

Harry Benjamin (18851986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine.

Nearly two-thirds of the Civil Wars approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared.

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural world, and reason and imagination.

Since the 'cultural turn' of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their head as concepts and categories for research have been re-thought.

Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor.

The Middle Ages (c.

Historians describe the 'long 19th century' as an age of empire, characterized by expansion and industrialization.

A Cultural History of Medicine presents anauthoritative survey from ancient times to the present.

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions.

From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions.

Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women's Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how women used herbal remedies to maintain bodily autonomy and how that autonomy was progressively eroded with the rise of plant-based tropane solanaceae alkaloids, and later, synthetic and anaesthetic drugs.

From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.

Nearly two-thirds of the Civil Wars approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared.