History of medicine

Since its founding in 1957, the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) has been deeply integrated in the development of international collaboration in the field of neurology, and has played a key part in asserting with dissemination of information and the need to learn from each other, independent of political systems, but with a basis in the development of democracy worldwide.

Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics.

Current understanding of neurological disease has been evolving over the past 150 years.

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice.

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius'' China Root Epistle.

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill.

Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450.

The first monograph on the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1914.

The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards.

This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology.

This is a full-text English translation of the TCM classic on pediatrics written by QIAN Yi (1032-1113 CE).

Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century.

An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century.

Dieses Buch bündelt Aufsätze zum Schwerpunkt Rassenhygiene in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus.

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals.

By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventivemeasures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the twentieth century.

Presenting for the first time, in original detail, Drs Edwards and Steptoe''s breakthroughs leading to the birth of Louise Brown.

Despite much triumph in adversity, illness fuelling composition is a misconception.

At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty.

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century.

A fascinating biography of the world''s pioneer neurosurgeon, his influence on the discipline and the social issues he championed fiercely.

Poucher's Perfumes Cosmetics and Soaps has been in print since 1923 and is the classic reference work in the field of cosmetics.

In 1963, President John F.

This significant work records the history of the pioneering British Home and Hospital for Incurables, founded in 1861.

This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character-he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries.

Die Geschichte der Gesundheitsberufe ist immer noch ein junges Forschungsfeld, welches bisher vor allem Arbeiten zum 19.

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Paracelsus (1493–1541) gehört zu den wirkungsvollsten Gestalten der Medizin: als Merkstein zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, als Grenzgänger zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft, als Begründer der Chemie (»Iatrochemie«) aus dem Geiste der Alchemie, als Naturarzt und Feind der gelehrigen »Spekulierärzte«.

During World War II, the army established 107 evacuation hospitals to care for the wounded and sick in theaters around the world.

The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1997, Aids and Adolescents provided an insight into a wide range of adolescent issues which were rarely compiled in one volume at the time.

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they used, the treatments they had at their disposal, the sorts of people they encountered in their travels, and the dangers they faced under the harsh conditions of life at sea.

Conceptions of medicine and medical practice among the Kedjom peoples in Cameroon embrace more than western biomedical understandings of medicine.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the French Crown closed down thousands of local hospices, maladreries, and small hospitals that had been refuges for the sick and poor, supposedly acting in the name of efficiency, better management, and elimination of duplicate services.

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses.

On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later renamed Echocardiogram.

Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science.

Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research.