History of medicine

In 1964, the release of Dr.

This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s.

This unique work represents the recording and analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the pioneering general practitioner Dr Hetty Ockrim with over seventy patients, as well as office staff and members of the nursing team, between 1989 and 1992 in her former practice in the Ibrox/Govan areas of Glasgow, places of significant socio-economic deprivation.

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed.

During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries.

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness.

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness.

What is the relationship between culture and mental health?

As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged.

Written by an immunologist, A History of Immunology traces the concept of immunity from ancient times up to the present day, examining how changing concepts and technologies have affected the course of the science.

An articulate, compelling history of American battlefield medics.

WINNER OF THE BREAD & ROSES PRIZE FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023 'Important and ambitious' Observer, Book of the Day 'An illuminating and powerful intersectional analysis of health inequalities and racism' i-D Magazine'Prepare to be blown away' Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director General at WHOIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world.

This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine.

The first history of contraception in twentieth-century Ireland to explore the lived experiences of Irish men and women and activists.

An eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceration.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

Forschungspreise sind starke Zeichen für herausragende Leistungen in der Medizin.

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.

Did early modern people care about their health?

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.

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse in a variety of early Christian literature.

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse in a variety of early Christian literature.

This book details how "e;Alzheimer Disease"e; went from being an obscure neurologic diagnosis to a household word.

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.

Proteomics is a systematic approach for studying the identity and function of all proteins expressed in a cell, tissue or organ.

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

Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W.

Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health.

Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients - largely women and children - to be treated by them.

AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide.

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health.

If we wish to understand loss experiences we must learn details of survivors' stories.

Chester Pierce's list of accomplishments was second to none: graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, founding national chair of the Black Psychiatrists of America, and namesake of the American Psychiatric Association's Human Rights Award.

In diesem Buch wird die Kunsttherapie, ein spezifisches Instrument zur Erhaltung der Gesundheit im Bereich der affektiven Entwicklung, der Rehabilitation, der Motorik und der kognitiven Funktionen, eingehend analysiert und diskutiert.

This book tells the story of how chemists, physicians, and surgeons attempted to end the problem of urinary stones.

We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy.

Ahistory of aging in the United Statesand an innovative blueprint for revolutionizingcare for older adultsfrom Northwell Health, New York's largest health care system.

This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease.

This book explores, through case studies, the interplay between religion, culture, government, and politics in diverse societies on questions arising in the domain of bioethics.

An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

In a quarter million clinical laboratories in the United States alone, techs work every day with little visibility or recognition.

Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a shock to the system of American medicineor it should have been.

In this book, Dale Hutchinson traces the history of American healthcare and wellbeing from the colonial era to the present, drawing on evidence from material culture and historical documents.