History of medicine

The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections starts where most stories end: after death.

The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dieses Buch vermittelt anhand von Einzelporträts wegweisender Ärztinnen und Ärzte sowie der Darstellung der wichtigsten Kliniken das spannende Bild der Berliner Frauenheilkunde und ihrer 1844 gegründeten Fachgesellschaft.

In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care.

This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery.

Beginning with the earliest records available describing the dental health of the Indians before the arrival of European settlers, Dr Gullett gives a detailed and carefully documented history of dentistry in Canada.

The American Revolutionary War, fought 250 years ago between Britain's North American colonies and the British colonial government, was a conflict of global significance.

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages?

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The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise.

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "e;due date"e; for world health.

WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A triumph .

This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use techniques in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were to form the basis of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and give rise to the specialty of plastic surgery.

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a 'long' Middle Ages.

Long neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention.

Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public healthTyphoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain.

Fritz Hartmann gilt neben Rudolf Schoen als geistiger Vater der 1965 eröffneten Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover (MHH); er war ihr erster gewählter Rektor und der langjährige Direktor ihrer rheumatologischen Abteilung.

The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.

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.

A look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come.

Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history.

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession.

Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology.

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants.

Based on a conference on Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation, held at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, this work examines fundamental, chemical, biological and medical studies of free radicals on different targets and the consequences of their reactivity.

This work includes forewords by Sir Liam Donaldson and Peter Wheeler, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health; Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in the development of modern medicine.

Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and literary as well as non-literary texts (many previously unconsidered in this context), this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant healers (mountebanks, charlatans and quacksalvers).

This book tells the story of one of medicine's most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy.

Der Friedensnobelpreisträger Bernard Lown ist einer der bedeutendstenÄrzte unserer Zeit.

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm?

What Is Medicine?

In 1964, the release of Dr.

The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provision from their origins in Late Antiquity to their medieval flourishing in Byzantium and the Islamic lands as well as in western Europe.

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns.

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

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.

This anthology is devoted to the curious side of Medical History.

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

When a couple plans for a child today, every moment seems precious and unique.

A guide to clinical effectiveness and governance, this second edition includes clinical governance issues.

Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.

The Antibody Molecule follows the extraordinary journey of the medics and scientists who shaped the course of medical advances in the field of immunology.