History of medicine

Ute Fischbach Sabels Untersuchung aller 55 noch erhaltenen Krankenjournale gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in Hahnemanns Praxis.

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Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication.

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.

From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and the father of modern medicine.

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphism-the dominant theory of bodies in the Middle Ages-with new theories of matter such as corpuscularianism and atomism at the dawn of the Modern period.

What role did offers of physical healing (or the hope of receiving it) play in the missionary program of the apostle Paul?

Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century.

Originally published in 1977 and as a second edition in 1988, this book introduces the reader to the women at the top of the midwifery profession up until the 17th Century who attended the aristocracy and Royalty.

Originally published in 1986, this book examines the history of midwifery, concentrating on 19th and 20th Century Britain.

Originally published in 1986, this book examines the history of midwifery, concentrating on 19th and 20th Century Britain.

Originally published in 1977 and as a second edition in 1988, this book introduces the reader to the women at the top of the midwifery profession up until the 17th Century who attended the aristocracy and Royalty.

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

This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean.

From the arrival of Europeans in the Pacific in the 16th century, introduced psychoactive drugs have played a crucial role in the history of societies from China to Peru, and from Alaska to Australia.

Geschröpft und zur Ader gelassen erkundet die vielfältige, oftmals seltsame und manchmal schauerliche Art und Weise, in der die Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg versucht haben, Krankheiten zu bekämpfen.

This book explores the political, legal, medical, and social battles that led to the widespread institutionalization of Californians with disabilities from the gold rush to the 1970s.

This volume foregrounds humanity (in the sense of compassion or sympathy), which often supplied the motivation for medical experiment and scientific innovation.

This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends.

The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and frustrations.

This volume foregrounds humanity (in the sense of compassion or sympathy), which often supplied the motivation for medical experiment and scientific innovation.

Eine Übersicht über das Leben und Wirken von Maurice E.

Wäre die Weltgeschichte anders verlaufen, wenn Machthaber nicht an bestimmten Erkrankungen gelitten hätten oder ihnen die Erben quasi krankheitsbedingt weggestorben oder regierungsunfähig gewesen wären?

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory.

Weibliche Genitalverstümmelung wird in der öffentlichen Diskussion als barbarischer Akt einiger afrikanischer Ethnien wahrgenommen.

The first history of contraception in twentieth-century Ireland to explore the lived experiences of Irish men and women and activists.

Mental health does not exist in a vacuum.

Chester Pierce's list of accomplishments was second to none: graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, founding national chair of the Black Psychiatrists of America, and namesake of the American Psychiatric Association's Human Rights Award.

The New York Times BestsellerThe triumphant story of three courageous women who become the first female doctors.

In a quarter million clinical laboratories in the United States alone, techs work every day with little visibility or recognition.

Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist auch eine der Krankheiten und Seuchen.

Die Blütezeit der medizinischen Schulen verhalf Wien zu Weltruhm.

The true story of the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia-and the price they paid for their breakthrough.

Increasingly, critics accused practitioners of hiding hubris behind their purported humanity and questioned whether an increasingly professional scientific community could retain its grip on the meaning of compassion.

Increasingly, critics accused practitioners of hiding hubris behind their purported humanity and questioned whether an increasingly professional scientific community could retain its grip on the meaning of compassion.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance.

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

This book tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic.

This book sheds new light on the history of exercise physiology and how it essentially grew, thanks to the work of a few major Schools.

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.

This book is a collection of studies on mental health services in Ireland from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day.

First published in 1967, Human Guinea Pigs is a report by a consultant physician on the implications of medical research on both the medical profession and on the men, women and children who are the subjects of medical experiments.

First published in 1967, Human Guinea Pigs is a report by a consultant physician on the implications of medical research on both the medical profession and on the men, women and children who are the subjects of medical experiments.

The definitive and scholarly history of the modern era of epilepsy, covering its medical, scientific, societal and personal aspects.

This book offers the first in-depth account of healthcare policy in Chile across the twentieth century.

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly.

In the nineteenth century, a small but dedicated group of European and American women rose to agitate for the inclusion of women in the medical profession.

In the nineteenth century, a small but dedicated group of European and American women rose to agitate for the inclusion of women in the medical profession.