History of medicine

This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then.

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Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabeth as a base, Who Killed the Queen?

The Art Is Long: Primary Texts on Medicine and the Humanities gathers introductory texts in the growing field of medical humanities.

Das Buch beschreibt die Geschichte der Krankenpflege als akademisches Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet.

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

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.

Examines Aristotle''s doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.

Written in a personal and engaging style, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages.

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Covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.

Marking its 25th anniversary, this fascinating collection examines the pioneering work of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Because autism is an increasingly common diagnosis, North Americans are familiar with its symptoms and treatments.

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals.

The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making.

Published in 1998, this is a fundamental re-assessment of the world-view of the alchemists, natural philosophers and intelligencers of the mid 17th century.

Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal.

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This book provides an overview of the history of allied medicine in the Great War.

Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it.

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity.

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy.

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities.

Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them.

When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault.

Not all scientific discoveries are genius.

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability.

This socially conscious, culturally relevant book explores the little-known history and present climate of Black people in the medical field.

This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen.

The four works in this volume are the only known exclusively medical texts written by women during the Restoration.

An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.

Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale.

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing.

This fascinating book presents 100 biographies of general practitioners, the majority of whom have made key contributions to the development of general practice and medicine, but also some who have influenced society through engineering, literature, music, politics, sport and other fields.

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.

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women.

This book offers a global overview of the history of blood donation using evidence-based research to provide accurate information on the beginnings of blood donation and transfusion medicine, developed as the result of numerous trials and successes throughout history.

This three-volume set provides a comprehensive yet concise global exploration of health and medicine from ancient times to the present day, helping readers to trace the development of concepts and practices around the world.

The forgotten history of Russian disabled veterans'' political struggle for equal rights, specialised care, education and adapted work.

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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

With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel.

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines.