History of medicine

Chronic diseases-cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes-are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of infectious diseases.

Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, TheLadies' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen.

While the writings of early modern medical practitioners habitually touch on performance and ceremony, few illuminate them as clearly as the Protestant physicians Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger, who studied in Montpellier and practiced in their birth town of Basle, or the Catholic physician Hippolytus Guarinonius, who was born in Trent, trained in Padua and practiced in Hall near Innsbruck.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine-sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi.

A landmark study in the history of sexuality which redefines thinking about sex and gender in nineteenth-century France and beyond.

A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11.

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures.

First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis.

Pain Medicine, a relatively new specialty, has proven increasingly relevant to medical practitioners in every field.

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine.

This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.

How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system?

Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized.

This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors.

Presents biographical details of 391 eponyms and names in the field, along with the context and relevance of their contributions.

This book is being planned as a tribute to Dr.

When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity.

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.

No detailed description available for "Galeni De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis / GALEN On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato".

This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in England, South Australia and Tasmania, and l am happy to send information on South Australia and Tasmania not included in this book to interested readers.

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.

Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987.

An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of Cook In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence.

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire.

This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials.

Conn Iggulden, co-author of the phenomenally successful The Dangerous Book for Boys, and David Iggulden now bring us The Dangerous Book of Heroesfeaturing great stories of courage and adventure to thrill and inspire any reader.

This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century.

'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health.

This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This edited collection explores Dante Alighieri's contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times.

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.

Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history.

Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century.

In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme.

Originally published in 1980, this book explores how the NHS confronts perennial stresses and problems, considering in particular the allocation of the scarce resources within the health service.

Recognizing the variety of health experiences across geographical borders, Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World interrogates the concepts of "e;health"e; and "e;healing"e; between 1500 and 1800.

This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry.

Published in 1910.

Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Contributors include Luc Berlivet (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library, Oxford), Nicholas Dodier (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Michael Donnelly (Bard College), Volker Hess (Humboldt-University), Peter Keating (University of Quebec at Montreal), Ann La Berge (Virginia Tech University), Ilana Lowy (INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Paris), Harry M.

Devastating epidemics of untreatable smallpox caused not only deaths but dire disfigurements of face and body as well as one third of all blindness.

A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise and redemption.

Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.

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In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent.