History of medicine

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on.

The word "e;pharmacopoeia"e; has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs.

This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of "e;semi-volitional bodily behaviour"e; (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.

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.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Hippocratis De Natura Hominis" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Werdegang der Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Über das Riechorgan" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur Geschichte der direkten Untersuchungsmethoden der oberen Luft- und Speisewege" verfügbar.

At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers.

No detailed description available for "e;Stephanus the Philosopher: A Commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates"e;.

What part did the British voluntary hospital system play in the health of the community in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

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A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives.

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.

Es gibt immer wieder Ideen, die das klassische Konzept sprengen und deshalb keinen richtigen Ort bekommen, an dem man sie nachlesen kann.

More than one in four people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some time during their lives, and most of them will need chemotherapy.

In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the worlds largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofits unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS.

Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.

Auch wenn das Rote Kreuz als freiwillige Hilfsgesellschaft für Sanitätsdienste im Krieg entstand, nahm es doch bald auch humanitäre Aufgaben in Zeiten des Friedens wahr.

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment.

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment.

A scientific and artistic triumph, Gray's Anatomy is one of the most iconic anatomical books ever to be printed - reproduced here as it appeared in 1858, with Henry Vandyke Carter's original illustrations alongside Henry Gray's text.

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 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 first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines.

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines.

Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M.

Medical practitioners have always been expected to abide by certain standards of conduct and uphold certain values, more or less throughout the world.

Medical practitioners have always been expected to abide by certain standards of conduct and uphold certain values, more or less throughout the world.

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine.

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine.

We all know what a strong effect colour has on us.

A book for men and women from middle age to advanced years who have suddenly and unexpectedly become confronted with the huge effects that the male prostate can have on the body.

Medicine in the 19th century may strike us as primitive by today's standards, but widespread social change of the era brought about new ideas and practices in health and healing-all described in this engaging book.

Avicenna war ein außerordentliches Genie, der sich nicht nur als Philosoph, Astronom, Mediziner, Physiker, Politiker, Dichter, Jurist und Mathematiker betätigte, sondern den erwähnten Disziplinen auch zu neuer Blüte verhalf.

Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit den besonderen historischen Momenten der drittältesten Universitätspsychiatrie Deutschlands, die seit 1866 am Standort Göttingen besteht.

Zu den ersten Bonner Medizinstudentinnen gehörten viele Töchter bildungsorientierter jüdischer Familien.

Die Arbeit untersucht die Konzepte von Reinigung und Reinheit in der Kaiserzeit und in der Spätantike anhand des Werks des Arztes Galen von Pergamon, der Texte der neuplatonischen Philosophen Plotin, Porphyrios und Jamblich und der Schriften der christlichen Theologen Nemesios von Emesa und Gregor von Nyssa.

This volume focuses on the special historical moments of the third oldest University Psychiatry in Germany, which has been existing in Gottingen since 1866.

Die Autoren zeichnen im vorliegenden Band in einem Bogen von 130 Jahren die Entwicklungsgeschichte von der ersten Irrenheilanstalt über die Universitätsnervenklinik bis hin zur aktuellen Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie in Marburg nach.

Die Heilpädagogische Abteilung als Evaluierungsinstanz kindlichen Verhaltens entfaltete ihre Wirkmacht im Zusammenspiel mit den Behörden, die sie konsultierten.

Noch immer sind mit der vormodernen Medizin Stereotype von Aderlass und Abführmitteln, gequälten Patienten und hilflosen ärzten verbunden.

Es wird die generalistische Pflegeausbildung, explizit der pädiatrische Ausbildungsteil, in der ersten Ausbildungshälfte betrachtet.