History of medicine

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

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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.

Many surgical revolutions distinguish the history and evolution of surgery.

This brief discourse is an introduction to the historical development of medicine in China, whose influence on Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia was profound and even reached far west into the Islamic world.

This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style.

This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style.

This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies.

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.

This volume analyses the transition of Chinese medicine during the modern era, and the development of product and service niches in selected countries: China, Malaysia, Japan and the Philippines.

This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese medicine terminology translation, defining the most central concepts in Chinese traditional medicine, providing simplified Chinese characters, Mandarin Pronunciation in pinyin, citations for 111 of the most key concepts in traditional Chinese medicine and culture.

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease.

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s.

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Genes, Germs and Medicine explores the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of one of the Twentieth Century's most influential scientists.

For author Don C Reed, father of a paralyzed son, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the greatest medical advance since penicillin.

The title purports to introduce Gua Sha to the general public as an effective yet safe therapeutic protocol with a short learning curve, making it an extremely appropriate form of home-based treatment.

'Rapoport has written a remarkable family memoir about growing up in the loftiest of Soviet Kremlin medical circles, where her father (Yakov Rapoport) was a distinguished pathologist, a man of scientific brilliance, technical expertise, great humor, and even greater courage during the rule of Joseph Stalin, around whom many suffered violent and mysterious deaths.

This is a full-text English translation of the TCM classic on pediatrics written by QIAN Yi (1032-1113 CE).

This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony.

Esta obra, publicada en dos tomos, abarca desde abril de 1969 hasta junio de 2019, construye un relato que entreteje los sucesos más relevantes de la historia colombiana e internacional, con la historia de las políticas de salud y de la educación médica, para comprender los procesos internos de la Facultad de manera crítica e integral.

En la obra podemos visualizar la caracterización de las diversas modalidades históricas que dieron origen a la bacteriología en Colombia: la llegada de médicos e investigadores en la época de la Colonia que sembraron la semilla de los servicios en el campo de la salud.

Este libro explora el proceso de construcción del concepto de "fiebre amarilla selvática" y e rol que los investigadores colombianos desempeñaron en dicho descubrimiento.

La forma en la cual esta obra explora cómo los médicos colombianos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX conceptualizaron las causas de las enfermedades en el cruce de varias tradiciones y teorías médicas: el neo-hipocratismo, la geografía médica y la bacteriología.

"Con todas las cosas creó Dios la medicina, simple y específica; y a la naturaleza, admirable en lo productiva y conservativa, y vio que todo era excelente, bueno", de esta manera comienzan los Casos felices y auténticos de medicina del relojero, platero y médico Domingo Rota; libro que dio vida a esta investigación.

El hospital neogranadino del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX es una institución compleja, atravesada por múltiples tensiones e intereses.

Los hechos y personajes que lideraron la lucha contra la viruela en Colombia constituyen el aspecto central de este escrito.

The reader will discover a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the history of the development of anticancer drugs deeply influenced by the cell concept of cancer and future directions for the development of new anticancer drugs.

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health?

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine.

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers.