History of medicine

In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook investigates the very beginnings of tropical medicine through the work of Dr George Low (1872-1952).

Jan Waldenstrom (1906-1996) was the leading Swedish internist of the twentieth century.

This book offers an overview of Chinese medicine terminology translation, defining the central concepts in Chinese traditional medicine, providing simplified Chinese characters, Mandarin Pronunciation in pinyin, citations for 110 of the most key concepts in traditional Chinese medicine and culture.

The 19th Century brought many medical advances and discoveries in neurology, with the famed Parisian La Salpetriere hospital at its center.

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: 'I wonder where that came from'?

Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste.

This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation.

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.

As the values of integrative medicine continues to grow, alternative points of view and treatments are increasing in acceptance and prevalence.

In the popular imagination, the notion of military medicine prior to the twentieth century is dominated by images of brutal ignorance, superstition and indifference.

From Pamela Binnings Ewen, bestselling author of The Queen of Paris and Emilienne, The Moon in the Mango Tree is a lush historical novel set in the 1920s.

This compelling new account looks back to the early twentieth-century origins and subsequent development of HIV/AIDS before 1981.

Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive.

This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries.

The history of neurology as seen through the lens of the filmmaker is fascinating and extraordinary.

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time.

A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror.

Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature.

Henry Daniel, fourteenth-century medical writer, Dominican friar, and contemporary of Chaucer, is one of the most neglected figures to whom we can attribute a substantial body of extant works in Middle English.

In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on young women who killed their babies.

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Looking Back and Moving Ahead honors the 75th anniversary of the ABPN by reviewing the Board's history and evolution, describing the subspecialties and the role that certification plays in their practice, explaining the current status of the ABPN's programs, and exploring future directions.

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise.

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.

Multiple-choice questions are an ideal way to improve understanding and revise for examinations.

This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry.

Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period.

A unique, integrative look at information-based medicine The convergence of medical science, biology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, healthcare, and information technology is revolutionizing medical and scientific practice, and has broader social implications still being understood.

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.

Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W.

The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the issue of nosology.

Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions.

The life of Vesalius, the foremost pioneer of modern anatomy, has never before been told in full.

This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present.

The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864.

This book combines new research data with findings from present-day health surveys to examine the history of ill health and its outcomes, whether recovery or death, in Europe and North America from the 17th century to the present.

Der Klassiker der ganzheitlichen Medizin Wenn man heute mit dem Namen Bircher-Benner vor allem das Birchermüesli, allenfalls noch die Rohkostlehre verbindet, gerät in Vergessenheit, wie vielfältig die Anregungen sind, die von diesem ersten Vertreter einer ganzheitlichen Medizin ausgingen.

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities.

"e;This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes.

The contents of the letters published here, again show the great range of subjects that occupied Van Leeuwenhoek: from sugar candy, the shape and crystal structure of diamonds, the dissolution of silver crystals in aqua fortis to gold dust from Guinea dissolved in aqua regia and the dissolution and separation of gold, silver, and copper.

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The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction.

Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art.

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period.

Blood in Motion is a textbook in Cardiovascular Science.

Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolution-a new way of looking at cancer and its causes.

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