History of medicine

Washington, DC, has the nations largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nations worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS.

Pierre-François Percy was Surgeon-in-Chief of Napoleon’s Grande Armée.

Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, depriving them of the ability to breathe.

Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, depriving them of the ability to breathe.

The war in Vietnam was an ethical minefield for the medical humanitarians who volunteered to treat the injured and dying.

In the shadow of global conflicts-from World War II through the tensions of the Cold War-an extraordinary scientific revolution was quietly unfolding.

In the shadow of global conflicts-from World War II through the tensions of the Cold War-an extraordinary scientific revolution was quietly unfolding.

Washington, DC, has the nations largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nations worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS.

WAS WIR VON STERBENDEN UBER DAS LEBENLERNEN KONNENWas ist wirklich wichtig, wenn die Zeit knapp wird?

From children's visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture.

Oh, you hurt me, Sir!

In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems.