History of medicine

Die offiziellen Debatten um Sterbehilfe offenbaren ein skandalöses Maß an Arroganz und Bevormundung seitens der machthabenden Eliten.

A true collector's item, Nurturing Yesterday's Child offers an illustrated history of the care of children from early Greek, Roman and Egyptian times to the present - a history that will inform you and touch your heart.

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.

""De vita libri tres" ging aus drei ursprünglich eigenständigen Abhandlungen hervor und ist ein medizintheoretisches Werk mit praktischen Anleitungen zum Erhalt und zur Wiederherstellung der Gesundheit, zum Gewinn eines langen Lebens und zum Einfluss astrologischer Konstellationen auf die physische, psychische und geistige Verfassung insbesondere geistig tätiger Menschen.

'An essential read for anyone who cares about the misogyny inherent in modern medicine.

Medico-Surgical Tributes to Harold Brunn: A Series of Essays on Various Aspects of Surgery and Medicine Written by His Pupils and Friends pays homage to one of the most distinguished figures in American surgery.

Medico-Surgical Tributes to Harold Brunn: A Series of Essays on Various Aspects of Surgery and Medicine Written by His Pupils and Friends pays homage to one of the most distinguished figures in American surgery.

Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19th century.

This title was originally published in 1970.

This title was originally published in 1970.

A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatic Diseases by W.

A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatic Diseases by W.

Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19th century.

This title was originally published in 1965.

This title was originally published in 1965.

The seven distinguished contributors to this volume illuminate not only the history of the biological and medical sciences but also the relationship between institutes and ideas which characterized the explosion of scientific investigation, especially in Germany.

This title was originally published in 1970.

This title was originally published in 1970.

Revealing the forgotten ideas and philosophy behind early naturopathic osteopathy, Shirley Murray Strachan presents a reoriented historical view of Thomas Ambrose Bowen and his work, breaking from the prevailing twentieth-century legitimation narrative of mainstream chiropractic and osteopathy and exploring the contributions and practices of Australia's early cosmopolitan naturopathic osteopathy pioneers FG Roberts and Maurice Blackmore.

Critical Psychiatry outlines the history of a group of thinkers that has come to be known as the anti-psychiatry movement.

Writings on health and health management have long been concerned with the great figures that have preserved, protected or extended life.

From the day that Paul Ehrlich hailed his newly discovered treatment for syphilis as the magic bullet, antibiotics have transformed medical practice.

This book explores the lived experiences of South Asian psychiatrists in the UK through personal and reflective accounts.

While an emphasis on the new is vital to any science, the relevance or importance of new discoveries cannot truly be appreciated without a strong sense of the framework of a discipline, and of the ideas that helped to shape it.

By reprinting in facsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth, this comprehensive twelve-volume collection gives readers a much deeper, more nuanced understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.

More than one billion people live with hearing loss, making deafness one of the most common disabilities in the world.

In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures.

By reprinting in facsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth, this comprehensive twelve-volume collection gives readers a much deeper, more nuanced understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.

During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown.

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.

This book explores key aspects of scientific reasoning, clinical methodology, and evidence-based practice, using quotes from the lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as a starting point for discussion and in-depth analysis.

This book explores key aspects of scientific reasoning, clinical methodology, and evidence-based practice, using quotes from the lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as a starting point for discussion and in-depth analysis.

No detailed description available for "Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum Libros Commentaria".

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Historisch-terminologisches Wörterbuch der Yüan-Zeit" verfügbar.

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "1991" verfügbar.

This volume offers a new critical edition with facing English translation and a detailed study of the medieval manual of dietetics Occitan Health Advice dating from the 13th century and probably compiled in the milieu of Montpellier's university.

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse.

This unique volume contains reviews by some of the most prominent immunologists in the world.

As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century.