This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia.
The study of medical history is interesting in itself and may help to modify the view sometimes expressed that medical students and doctors are lacking in culture of any sort.
Questo libro potrebbe intitolarsi: “Storia dell’importanza dell’aspetto e della sessualità in Italia” tanto questi due punti giocano un ruolo importante in questo contesto.
Explore the many forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practiced today and discover their histories, guiding principles, purported benefits, and potential risks.
This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment to comprehensively unveil, explore, and celebrate disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world through a critical examination of art, artefacts, texts, and human remains.
Este libro recopila una serie de artículos, debidamente revisados y actualizados, que fueron publicados en diversas revistas a lo largo de los últimos veinte años.
A partir de l'estudi exhaustiu de la correspondència epistolar que conté la col·lecció Monumenta Borgia, Francesc Devesa ens ofereix una anàlisi sistemàtica de les notícies sobre malalties ordinàries, epidèmies, lesions per violència, danys per catàstrofes naturals o guerres i un llarg etcètera que inclou els aspectes curatius, amb medicaments i procediments mèdics, o preventius, sense deixar de banda els hospitals i els «agents sanitaris», de metges a barbers.
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.
Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as hermaphrodites , this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and German.
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.
"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.
