History of medicine

The subject of medicalisation of childbirth in colonial India has so far been identified with three major themes: the attempt to reform or 'sanitise' the site of birthing practices, establishing lying-in hospitals and replacing traditional birth attendants with trained midwives and qualified female doctors.

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Mai's experience as a physician and psychiatrist serves as a basis for his analysis.

No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine.

What is the relationship between culture and mental health?

In Todesnähe werden Menschen oft mit intensivem Bilderleben konfrontiert.

In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "e;democratic disease"e; to a fearsome threat in communities of color.

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book tells the story of how chemists, physicians, and surgeons attempted to end the problem of urinary stones.

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This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective.

Bismarcks Arzt von Frerichs gibt bei Diabetes Opium.

This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success.

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources.

During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "e;other war at home"e;: they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled.

This book discusses theories that link functions to specific anatomical brain regions.

Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bA te noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture.

Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practices.

In the mid-nineteenth century, physicians observed numerous cases in which individuals lost the ability to form spoken words, even as they remained sane and healthy in most other ways.

Not all scientific discoveries are genius.

The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients - largely women and children - to be treated by them.

Ute Fischbach Sabels Untersuchung aller 55 noch erhaltenen Krankenjournale gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in Hahnemanns Praxis.

Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist.

Galt die barocke Reformpoetik lange als umfassendes Regulierungssystem, zeigen sich im Einzelnen immer wieder eklatante Normierungslücken.

After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present.

The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine.

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.

The history of the dental program at Western University is a spirited and gritty story of grand visions, strong personalities, and contentious leadership.

This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

In der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland wurden Arzneimittel an Heimkindern getestet, um sozial erwünschtes Verhalten oder Sedierung zu erreichen.

A multidisciplinary account of the reforms in psychiatry and mental health in Britain during 1960-2010 and their relation to society.

Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Während die historische Forschung für die Phase der Stein-Hardenbergschen Reformen über umfängliche Quellenwerke zu Entwicklung und Wirken des preußischen Staates verfügt, ist die Editionslage für die Zeit nach 1815 bislang unzureichend.

What we now call 'deep venous thrombosis' (DVT) has been studied in diverse ways during the last 200-300 years.

This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War.

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.

Holistic medicine is: A clinical discipline that integrates both Eastern and Western medical methods and knowledge systems into one An evidence-based medicine that simultaneously embodies both a holistic approach and personalized principles The most straightforward form of medicine that adheres to scientific standards and effectively meets the needs of humanity In recent years, the integrated research on living organisms initiated by systems biology, along with the efforts of precision medicine to tailor treatment plans based on the individual characteristics of each patient, have opened up the process of modern biology and medicine returning to the ideas of Chinese medical traditions.

The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars.

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Es sind Tausende Kinder, die von den 1950er Jahren an bis in die späten 1980er Jahre an die Innsbrucker Kinderbeobachtungsstation gelangten.

The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.

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

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland.