Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women's health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces.
Starting with a brief history of western naval medical care from the ancient Greeks and proceeding to modern times, this book chronicles the evolution of the Navy's first west coast hospital, the Mare Island Naval Hospital, as it grew from a "e;palatial"e; but primitive facility in the 1860s to the Navy's premier amputee center for Marines and sailors returning from the brutal Pacific war.
James Parsons' work "e;A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites"e; can be seen as a pioneering text in the study of hermaphroditism.
A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who survived hanging and became a celebrity, Lord Nuffield's dreadful visits to the dentist, and the surgeon who operated on his own hernia using strychnine: all pointers to medical mysteries and advances.
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.
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.
This book comprehensively reviews the 10 most influential epidemics in history, going beyond morbid accounts of symptoms and statistics to tell the often forgotten stories of what made these epidemics so calamitous.
A History of Western Science: The Basics offers a short introduction to the history of Western science that is accessible to all through avoiding technical language and mathematical intricacies.
Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity.
Mit ihrer qualitativen Studie hat Sara Marquard differenziert und empirisch belastbar untersucht, wie Frauen mit einer fortgeschrittenen Brustkrebserkrankung ihre körperlichen Beeinträchtigungen erleben.
This book provides a broad overview of diagnostic pathology, integrating historical perspectives with the current practice of diagnostic pathology across various sub-fields such as surgical pathology, cytopathology, autopsy and forensic pathology, neuropathology and more.
This book provides a broad overview of diagnostic pathology, integrating historical perspectives with the current practice of diagnostic pathology across various sub-fields such as surgical pathology, cytopathology, autopsy and forensic pathology, neuropathology and more.
This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of health care policy from high-income countries in Europe to low-income developing countries in the Global South.
The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.
A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagramThe Wound Mana medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseaseswas reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe.
Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galenthe most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocratesis a central figure in Western medicine.
Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galenthe most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocratesis a central figure in Western medicine.
In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge.
Ein Buch für Frauen und Männer, in den mittleren bis höheren Lebensjahren, für die die Prostata des Mannes plötzlich und unerwartet ein wichtiges körperliches Thema sein wird.
In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge.
In ›Die Erfindung der Prä-Astronautik‹ nimmt der Autor den Leser mit auf eine fesselnde Reise durch die faszinierende Geschichte und Entwicklung einer der kontroversesten Ideen des 20.
As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century.
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823-1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.
