History of medicine

Charles Buck draws on three decades of study, practice and teaching in this book to provide a relevant and engaging account of the origins of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed.

An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival-and the people who have kept it running In recent decades, a wave of appreciation for the NHS has swept across the UK.

Two of the major texts in the history of tongue diagnosis are presented and put into context in this volume, reaffirming the strength of tongue diagnosis as a core diagnostic method.

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed.

Charles Buck draws on three decades of study, practice and teaching in this book to provide a relevant and engaging account of the origins of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

Two of the major texts in the history of tongue diagnosis are presented and put into context in this volume, reaffirming the strength of tongue diagnosis as a core diagnostic method.

An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival-and the people who have kept it running In recent decades, a wave of appreciation for the NHS has swept across the UK.

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.

An essential history of a taste that shaped the world.

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.

As seen on “60 Minutes”: a “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksThe World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak"Well-written, highly entertaining and relevant.

This timely history of the neglected figure of Daniel Sutton—the medical revolutionary who paved the way for present-day vaccination—was named a best book of 2020 by BBC History Magazine Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies.

Discussion of Cold Damage (Shang Han Lun) and contemporary texts of ancient China form the bedrock of modern Chinese medicine practice, yet these classic texts contain many concepts that are either hard to understand or confusing.

Discussion of Cold Damage (Shang Han Lun) and contemporary texts of ancient China form the bedrock of modern Chinese medicine practice, yet these classic texts contain many concepts that are either hard to understand or confusing.

This book provides a broad introduction to medical practices among Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans during the colonial period, covering everything from dentistry to childcare practices to witchcraft.

This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "e;medical care"e; was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice.

One of Victorian England's most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared its revelation would ruin him.

The treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex challenge.

Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about vaccination while addressing concerns of those who oppose immunization.

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures.

In the 1950s, a terrifying epidemic struck the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.

Entre 1770 y 1820, la ciudad de Mexico fue escenario de una economia urbana donde el tabaco ocupo un lugar estrategico.

Vor dem 19.

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.

La peor tragedia sanitaria a la que Espana tuvo que enfrentarse fue la Guerra Civil.

In the summer of 1485, a terrifying new disease arrived in England.

Wie wurde das Wissen der Inhaftierten im System der nationalsozialistischen Lager ausgebeutet?

For most of human history, administering medicine was a blunt and often ineffective process.

Vor knapp einem Jahrhundert war die Diagnose Typ-1-Diabetes ein absolut unumstoliches Todesurteil.

Zu Beginn des 20.

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.

No ajena a las vicisitudes humanas, la medicina y su ejercicio siempre han dado de qué hablar.

What if everything you thought you knew about the history of medicine was only half the story?

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.

Es begann als unerklarliche Epidemie in der japanischen Prafektur Toyama.

Pocken waren jahrhundertelang die furchtbarste Geiel der Menschheit, ein unsichtbarer Morder, der Millionen dahingerafft hatte.

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.

They were told the glow was harmless.

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.

A powerful memoir from 1977 to the present, this narrative follows a boy's journey through foster care in rural Michigan, his adoption by the Roeters family, and his struggle with undiagnosed health issues - hairlessness, hearing loss, chronic pain.

For decades, medical consensus was absolute: stress and spicy food cause ulcers.

Bevor es die Impfung gab, war der Sommer die Jahreszeit der Angst.

Una Historia de la Medicina, una Historia de una Saga Familiar.

Suizidhilfe, Optimierungsmedizin, Demenzverfugungen: Woruber wird da gestritten?