"e;This book represents an important contribution to the field as it is the first to provide a detailed account of the interaction between Chinese and western medicine from a pharmacy perspective over a period of two millennia with an emphasis on the modern period from 1800-1949.
The early history of endometriosis is interwoven with the history of adenomyosis, since it was not until the mid nineteen-twenties that the two conditions were finally separated.
„Historische Krankheiten aus einer modernen Perspektive - Die amerikanische Erfahrung“ ist ein Muss für Geschichtsstudenten und Fans historischer Romane.
This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society's basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease.
Historical Diseases from a Modern Perspective: The American Experience is a must read for any physician, medical student, history buff, fan of historical novels, or individuals concerned about reemerging diseases.
Public Health and the Pandemic in Colonial Bengal examines the interplay between colonial governance and public health crises by focusing on the effects of the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic in Bengal.
In recent years there has been an immense growth in interest in the history of nursing, both from nurses themselves, who are keen to discover the roots of their practice and profession, and on the part of historians and sociologists of health care to nursing history, women's history and the development of professional groups.
The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 million.
Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.
Originally published in 1983 this book examines the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form through one generation of general hospital nurses, Voluntary and Poor Law based, who were recruited and trained between 1881 and 1914.
In recent years there has been an immense growth in interest in the history of nursing, both from nurses themselves, who are keen to discover the roots of their practice and profession, and on the part of historians and sociologists of health care to nursing history, women's history and the development of professional groups.
History of Rabies in the Americas, Volume III: Reflections, Reports, Retrospectives, and Revelations is a natural outgrowth of the prior two volumes, which presented topical and spatio-temporal insights on this theme.
History of Rabies in the Americas, Volume III: Reflections, Reports, Retrospectives, and Revelations is a natural outgrowth of the prior two volumes, which presented topical and spatio-temporal insights on this theme.
Die Transplantationschirurgie wirft - bei all ihren Erfolgen - juristische, bioethische und philosophische Fragen auf und provoziert kollektive Hoffnungen, Phantasien und Ängste, die sich in Literatur und Film niederschlagen.
Women have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside the household.
