History of medicine

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Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.

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

About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus.

Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today.

Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of "e;certainty"e; in medical practice.

This book defines "e;translationality"e; by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a humanities (phenomenological/performative) approach to translational medicine.

Told by a unique voice in American medicine, this epic story recounts life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician, and is described by The New York Times as a true service [to history].

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote.

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought.

The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality.

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness.

"e;The book lets us see the human side of physicians-the humorous, the heartwarming-the tradition of health care in Kentucky.

This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This sensitive yet incisive book addresses the medical treatment of children in the city of Strasbourg during Nazi occupation.

Mental health does not exist in a vacuum.

Dieser Band versammelt interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Thema Altentötung, Opfertod und Alterssuizid.

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences.

The first history of malaria control efforts in tropical Africa, contributing to the emerging sub-discipline of the historical epidemiology of contemporary disease challenges.

'Twenty-first century medicine is just the current stage of a never-ending journey of tremendous complexity.

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state.

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj presents in detail Nightingale's involvement with India and Indians, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the narrow sphere of army sanitation to the socio-economic condition of the whole of India.

The last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA.

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany.

This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice.

As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain.

First published in 1929, this book is a continuation of Arthur Newsholme's Evolution of Preventive Medicine, published in 1927, which was concerned with the possibilities in progress of prevention of disease, up to the middle of the nineteenth century.

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine - scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional - in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times.

The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation.

The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864.

This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991.

In this fascinating book, Jacques Balthazart presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans.

First Published in 1994.

Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge commercial success.

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

Die Medizingeschichte Österreichs vom Mittelalter bis zur GegenwartWarum wandte sich die Bevölkerung mit ihren Leiden früher nur selten an studierte Ärzte?

In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality.

This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of "e;space-fillers"e;, the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers.

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F.

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries.

This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context.

Kaum ein anderes Thema der jüngeren deutschen Medizingeschichte ist so häufig behandelt worden wie das der Medizin im Nationalsozialismus.

Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

Blood has long been an object of intrigue for many of the world's philosophers and physicians, and references to it have existed since the earliest studies of human anatomy.