Esta historia de la Facultat de Medicina de Valencia es el resultado de la colaboración de una veintena de historiadores de la Universitat de València, la Universidad Miguel Hernández, la Universidad Católica de Valencia y varios institutos del CSIC.
Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication.
Segunda edicion de la biografia de Santiago Ramon y Cajal (Petilla de Aragon 1852-Madrid 1934), que ha sido sin lugar a dudas el mayor prestigio cientifico de Espana.
Una historia concisa de la medicina occidental, ordenada conceptualmente en torno a los grandes campos de interés médico: anatomía, farmacología, obstetricia, psiquiatría, medicina familiar.
Este volumen nos introduce históricamente en la relación entre medicina y filosofía, detalla la utilidad de una para la otra y analiza los problemas a medio camino entre la ciencia médica y la filosofía, como el concepto de persona, la dialéctica cuerpo-alma, la ética que propone la medicina, la neuroética o la muerte.
Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.
"He escrito este libro para mirar de cerca la profesión a la que me dedico y tal vez con la esperanza de despertar el interés del lector, ya que trato temas como la enfermedad y el sufrimiento que, tarde o temprano, nos afectarán a todos.
Desde siempre ha habido médicos que han sido también grandes pensadores: Copérnico, Paracelso, Chéjov o, más recientemente, Oliver Sacks, han entendido que la enfermedad no sólo concierne al cuerpo, sino también al espíritu.
InCollected Studies (Volume 4): Jews in the Medical Profession, Joseph Shatzmiller, the prominent scholar of Provence Jewry, presents a fascinating glimpse into the world of Jewish doctors and medicine in medieval Western Europe.
En este libro, los lectores hallarán un sentido de pertenencia e identidad; un espíritu de cuerpo de quienes, con sus recuerdos y voces, permiten conocer un pretérito singular; un tiempo enel que un grupo de médicos militares mexicanos evoca en distintos momentos su estancia como estudiantes, maestros y profesionales, en principio dentro de la Escuela y el Hospital militares,y después en otros centros del mismo sector o del medio civil público y privado.
The essays examine how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character or ethnicity, has evolved from the crossroad of magic, religion and primitive medicine to present-day cultural concern for wellness and beauty.
Locura y civilización es una obra que reconstruye la significación cultural, médica y social que ha adquirido la locura en distintas civilizaciones a lo largo del tiempo.
"El nacimiento de la clínica", publicada en Francia en 1963, es un ensayo revelador acerca de la observación médica y sus métodos durante un breve pero fecundo período en el cual, en la práctica clínica, la mirada se tornó criterio de verdad y racionalidad.
This work, composed originally for a lay audience and for popular consumption, will be to the aspiring medical student and the hardworking practitioner a lift into the blue, an inspiring vista or "e;Pisgah-sight"e; of the evolution of medicine, a realization of what devotion, perseverance, valor and ability on the part of physicians have contributed to this progress, and of the creditable part which our profession has played in the general development of science.
Excerpt: "e;In March, 1904, the Southwark Borough Council at the request of Sir William Collins gave permission for an inquiry to be made into the constituents of tea in order to ascertain what injurious ingredients were present, and if it were possible to obtain the characteristic effects without subjecting tea-drinkers to any of the deleterious symptoms.
Excerpt: "e;The narcotic effects of hemp are popularly known in the South of Africa, South America, Turkey, Egypt, Asia Minor, India, and the adjacent territories of the Malays, Burmese, and Siamese.
First published over 350 years ago during the reign of Elizabeth I, Culpeper's Herbal remains one of the most complete listings of herbs and their uses in existence.
Excerpt: "e;Among the many diseases which afflict the human race, we find one, upon record, so irresistible in its progress, so fatal in its attacks, and so entirely beyond the powers of medicine; that, like the serpent Python, the Leviathan, or the Mammoth, among animals, it has generally been distinguished by names expressive of its destroying nature; not, like other diseases, by any particular appellation derived from its symptoms.
Excerpt: "e;Sexuality is the most powerful factor in individual and social existence; the strongest incentive to the exertion of strength and acquisition of property, to the foundation of a home, and to the awakening of altruistic feelings, first for a person of the opposite sex, then for the offspring, and, in a wider sense, for all humanity.
Excerpt: "e;It may be needless to acquaint the Reader why the following Sheets are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it.
Excerpt: "e;Take an Onion and cut him overthwart, then make a little hole in each peece, the which you shall fill with fine Triacle, then set the pieces together again as they were before, then wrap them in a white linnen cloth.
Excerpt: "e;No matter how complex the form of propagation may appear, the fundamental principle which underlies all forms is a process of cell-division.
Observations on Madness and Melancholy by John Haslam is an authoritative work on madness, insanity and melancholy - terms that are used in the pejorative in most circumstances.
This book examines the historical experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals facing discrimination in the early 20th-century military before same-sex acts were explicitly illegal.
Der Band widmet sich der Verstrickung der Berliner Psychiatrie in die nationalsozialistische Erbgesundheitspolitik während der Jahre von 1933 bis 1945.
Analysen zur Frage, ob Individualerkrankungen einen Einfluss auf die Universalgeschichte haben können, sind grundsätzlich problematisch und liegen auch kaum vor.
Die Medizingeschichte Österreichs vom Mittelalter bis zur GegenwartWarum wandte sich die Bevölkerung mit ihren Leiden früher nur selten an studierte Ärzte?
Als Zeitzeuge, Mitte der Fünfzigerjahre, beschreibt der Autor den Anfang einer aufgrund unzureichender Diagnostik noch mit großen Schwierigkeiten kämpfenden Neurochirurgie unter PD Dr.
Standardwerk zur Geschichte von KrebsReich bebildert stellt dieses Buch ein Standardwerk für alle dar, die sich für die Geschichte der Erforschung von Krebs und der ältesten onkologischen Fachgesellschaft im deutschen Sprachraum interessieren.
