History of medicine

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese medicine terminology translation, defining the most central concepts in Chinese traditional medicine, providing simplified Chinese characters, Mandarin Pronunciation in pinyin, citations for 111 of the most key concepts in traditional Chinese medicine and culture.

This book celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis on 27 January 1621.

Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century.

Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reflections from the Field explores the diverse and complex public health landscape, from global to regional to local, by considering historical and socio-cultural factors to contextualize the ongoing public health crisis.

Am Schreiben emes historischen Basistextes zeIgen sich verschiedene Probleme der Historiographie mit großer Schärfe.

On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection.

Girolamo Donzellini was born in 1513.

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.

Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge.

Joseph Babinski's contributions to French medicine have been well-documented, but there has yet to be a significant and an authoritative biography of him--until now.

First published in 1929, this book is a continuation of Arthur Newsholme's Evolution of Preventive Medicine, published in 1927, which was concerned with the possibilities in progress of prevention of disease, up to the middle of the nineteenth century.

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease.

This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship.

This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language.

Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a monumental work by one of Ireland's leading psychiatrists, encompassing every psychiatric development from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining the far-reaching social and political effects of Ireland's troubled relationship with mental illness.

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion.

A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa.

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease.

This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean.

A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century.

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

This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE).

The discovery of the x-ray in 1895 proved to be one of the most transformative breakthroughs in the history of science.

Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness.

Mental health does not exist in a vacuum.

This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control.

The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century.

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene.

John Marks is something of a national treasure.

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making.

This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "e;euthanasia"e; measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945.

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the Unites States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold.

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This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century.

Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society.

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West.

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies.

In Germanic and Nordic languages, the term for 'public health' literally translates to 'people's health', for example Volksgesundheit in German, folkhalsa in Swedish and kansanterveys in Finnish.