History of medicine

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.

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.

Poucher's Perfumes Cosmetics and Soaps has been in print since 1923 and is the classic reference work in the field of cosmetics.

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.

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "e;due date"e; for world health.

In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics.

In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution.

Pediatric cardiology is celebrating in the 1990s the 50th anniversary of the beginnings of the age of therapy.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

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This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define.

The first invasive evaluation of cardiac arrhythmias in humans was performed in 1967 in Paris (Prof.

For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has been concerned with the moral implications of medical practice.

Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars.