History of medicine

Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials.

Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

Charles Buck draws on three decades of study, practice and teaching in this book to provide a relevant and engaging account of the origins of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

Chinese Medicine constantly refers back to its sources in order to initiate the new.

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

This book highlights the huge advances made in prevention of infectious disease(s) in Victorian Britain.

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians.

This biography of an early twentieth-century South Carolina doctor sheds light on his pioneering work with the mentally ill to combat a public health scourge.

Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.

Examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases to chronic diseases as the predominant causes of death, presenting a new theory on how chronic diseases have developed.

This reference book is all about the troubled times in the western world with all those deaths, diseases and dark times.

Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "e;the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded,"e; focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to thepandemic.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s.

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient.

This version of the original 1858 first edition ofGray's Anatomyis ideal for students and those with a keen interest in medicine.

This is a compilation of tributes to a gentleman who has impacted the field of biomedical engineering and musculoskeletal science for four decades through his research, his guidance and mentorships, his friendships, and his love for the field, family, and friends.

Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.

Mental health does not exist in a vacuum.

No detailed description available for "Galeni De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis / On the doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato".

No detailed description available for "Hippocratis De Diaeta / Hippocrate Du regime".

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect.

In this book, a clinician can experience the most typical medical subjects in a primary care setting, which is the highlight.

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War.

This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities.

Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time.

Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, 'Jack the Ripper: The Facts' recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of all time.

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged.

Sterben gehört zum Leben.

Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers.

This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.

Even the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love.

With every passing year, more and more people learn that they or their young or unborn child carries a genetic mutation.

Auf Empfehlung des Wissenschaftsrats wurde der Querschnittsbereich Geschichte, Theorie, Ethik der Medizin als benotetes Pflichtfach für Medizinstudierende in der ärztlichen Approbationsordnung verankert.

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This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire.

An international panel of speakers trace the progress of human genetics from its beginning to the present day, in various communities in different countries.

The Finnish doctor Kari Cantell is one of the scientists to whom the development of the drugs called interferons can be attributed.

This is a compilation of tributes to a gentleman who has impacted the field of biomedical engineering and musculoskeletal science for four decades through his research, his guidance and mentorships, his friendships, and his love for the field, family, and friends.

This book set covers the last 3000 years of Chinese Medicine, as a broadly flowing river, from its source to its mouth.

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.