History of medicine

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great's (c.

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Humans throughout history have described a peculiar state between wakefulness and sleep during which they are consciously aware of their surroundings, but physically paralyzed.

When Charles Miller Fisher was born in 1913 there was very little scientific knowledge about stroke.

This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe.

This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology.

It is indeed a pleasure to prepare the foreword for vidual surgeons.

The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years.

Das Arzneimittelrezept ist die formelle, schriftliche Aufforderung eines Arztes an einen Apotheker zur Abgabe an oder Herstellung von Arzneimitteln für einen bestimmten Patienten.

Hiermit liegt das erste umfassende Kompendium aller bekannten Heilmittel und Heilverfahren der Hethiter vor.

In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural barriers in medical education.

This book explores the history, effects, diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue as well its significant links to other illnesses.

Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self.

This volume traces the evolution of the concept of Public Health and reveals the importance of political will and public spending in this field of civil engineering.

Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the unwary and the foolish when it comes to the matter of food and health.

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphism-the dominant theory of bodies in the Middle Ages-with new theories of matter such as corpuscularianism and atomism at the dawn of the Modern period.

Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy represents the first full-length study to confront seriously the well-rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer.

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris.

Über die bemerkenswerte Widerstandskraft einer frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft angesichts verheerender Epidemien.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic.

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing.

Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions"e;from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home decor"e;the essays in this collection share a common focus on materiality, the nitty-gritty elements that helped give shape and meaning to British self-definition during the period.

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage.

The Confederate Navy's medical service is usually overlooked in histories of the Civil War, yet it was vital in maintaining the fighting strength of the South's navy and marine corps.

The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883.

The book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.

These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory.

In recent decades, developments in research technologies and therapeutic advances have generated immense public recognition for neuroscience.

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland.

Originally published in 1992, Medical Theory, Surgical Practice examines medical and surgical concepts of disease and their relation to the practice of surgery, in particular historical settings.

The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914.

Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war.

This informative new book presents an accessible account of the development of medical genetics over the past 70 years, one of the most important areas of 20th, and now 21st, century science and medicine.

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day.

Standardwerk zur Geschichte von KrebsReich bebildert stellt dieses Buch ein Standardwerk für alle dar, die sich für die Geschichte der Erforschung von Krebs und der ältesten onkologischen Fachgesellschaft im deutschen Sprachraum interessieren.

Joseph W.