History of medicine

What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself?

This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix.

The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history.

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of the world trade in exotic drugs and spices.

This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge.

This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550.

Die Diagnose »Krebs« ist ein Schock.

Personal physician of the emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus, Galen was a multi-faceted intellectual and his extensive writings constitute, by far, the largest surviving corpus of any ancient author.

A lo largo de la historia ha existido una fascinación especial de algunos médicos por hallar y desentrañar, cual detectives, los casos médicos raros, extraordinarios o insólitos; aquellos que son capaces de sorprender a propios y extraños.

Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level.

In the spring of 2020, as a new and deadly virus rapidly spread across the globe, the world shut down.

This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.

This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.

Personal physician of the emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus, Galen was a multi-faceted intellectual and his extensive writings constitute, by far, the largest surviving corpus of any ancient author.

Ireland was the location of the earliest comprehensive public provision for the care and control of the mentally ill.

Ireland was the location of the earliest comprehensive public provision for the care and control of the mentally ill.

Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 poses a question: where does psychoanalysis begin?

Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.

This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.

This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.

Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 poses a question: where does psychoanalysis begin?

Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.

Quiero imaginar De cuerpos y travesías de esta manera: como un libro-experiencia, que revela algo de mis investigaciones en curso, no solo subrayando mis indagaciones y movimientos, sino también registrando las transformaciones por las que pasé; en cierta forma, trazando una cartografía de afecciones y afectos.

This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.

This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.

This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.

Als Christiaan Barnard die erste Herzverpflanzung gelang, schrieb man das Jahr 1967, als Dick Fosbury mit seinem neuen Hochsprungstil Gold gewann, 1968, als Neil Armstrong und Buzz Aldrin auf dem Mond landeten, 1969.

Als Christiaan Barnard die erste Herzverpflanzung gelang, schrieb man das Jahr 1967, als Dick Fosbury mit seinem neuen Hochsprungstil Gold gewann, 1968, als Neil Armstrong und Buzz Aldrin auf dem Mond landeten, 1969.

This book presents an in-depth investigation of 12 pandemics that have wreaked devastation across the world over the last 700 years, including the bubonic plague, syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy, smallpox, cholera, polio, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS, and Covid-19 and coronaviruses.

This book presents an in-depth investigation of 12 pandemics that have wreaked devastation across the world over the last 700 years, including the bubonic plague, syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy, smallpox, cholera, polio, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS, and Covid-19 and coronaviruses.

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece.

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece.

Step into the fascinating world of medical history with the second edition of Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically, now featuring 20 new chapters, for a total of 100 captivating stories!

Step into the fascinating world of medical history with the second edition of Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically, now featuring 20 new chapters, for a total of 100 captivating stories!

This book examines how elite literary authors conceived of the relationship between health and lifestyle in the Graeco-Roman world.

This book examines how elite literary authors conceived of the relationship between health and lifestyle in the Graeco-Roman world.

Who gets diabetes and why?

Who gets diabetes and why?

Zum 125-jährigen Bestehen der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft kommen Patienten und Krebsüberlebende sowie Mediziner, Gesundheitspolitiker und Vertreter unterschiedlicher Institutionen zu Wort.

Der deutsche Wald, der Rhein, der Umweltschutz: Die Deutschen und die Natur Am Anfang dieser seit jeher spannungsreichen Geschichte stehen im 19.

Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Nicolaus Stenonis Versuch einer Annaherung.

Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Von den medizinischen Texten"e; verfugbar.

Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Worterbuch der Agyptischen Drogennamen"e; verfugbar.

Unter strengster Geheimhaltung begann 1939 im Rahmen des nationalsozialistischen 'Euthanasie'-Programms die Erfassung und Begutachtung aller Psychiatriepatienten und parallel dazu die von körperlich und geistig behinderten Kindern, die in sogenannte 'Kinderfachabteilungen' eingewiesen wurden.

Tuberculosis has plagued humans and animals for thousands of years.

Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century.