History of medicine

This book describes the history of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) covering the period from 1988 to 2014, which includes the transition from the British Paediatric Association (BPA) to the formation of the now established RCPCH.

This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal.

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system.

This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "e;Seybert Report,"e; based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist seances.

This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society.

This book discusses theories that link functions to specific anatomical brain regions.

This brief traces the story of one of our most common medicines - aspirin.

This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s.

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion.

This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic.

This book describes the history of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) covering the period from 1988 to 2014, which includes the transition from the British Paediatric Association (BPA) to the formation of the now established RCPCH.

This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold ("e;Hal"e;) Gray, FRS (1905-65), a pioneer in radiobiology - a little known science that is nevertheless extremely important since it constitutes the basis of radiotherapy.

Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action.

This book presents a collection of short biographies and works of the pioneers in pathology.

In this autobiography, Josef Rosch, a leading pioneer in interventional radiology from its inception to the present, documents his life and discusses important aspects of his work, focusing especially on those procedures that he developed or improved and that were popularized by his lectures and publications.

This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology.

This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century.

This book discusses theories that link functions to specific anatomical brain regions.

This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686).

In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of 'biological function', a concept of 'reference class' and the notion of 'statistical normality'.

This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today-the body's "e;holy bone"e; and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt.

This book reproduces and comments John Woodall's handbook which was used as standard text for medical treatment at sea in the seventeenth century and was the first instruction for medical service aboard on the whole.

By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times.

This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use techniques in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were to form the basis of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and give rise to the specialty of plastic surgery.

This work is a collection of Carl Wenicke's lectures on neuropsychiatry translated into English for the first time.

This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context.

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli's theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment.

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli's theory on the movement of animals and demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects.

This book considers the evolution of medical education over the centuries, presents various theories and principles of learning (pedagogical and andragogical) and discusses different forms of medical curriculum and the strategies employed to develop them, citing examples from medical schools in developed and developing nations.

"e;An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil .

This eagerly awaited book offers a unique, comprehensive scientific study of the anatomy of the organ of female sexual pleasure.

Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand.

This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it.

This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care.

Zum BuchDownloadsAutorinnen & AutorenEnde der 1970er-Jahre erwachte weltweit eine Bewegung, die sich für die Entstehung von Hospiz­einrichtungen, Palliativstationen und ambulanten Palliativdiensten für Sterbende einsetzte.

Wie gehen Menschen mit Demenz selbst mit ihrer Situation um?

Vienna - medically.

Manfred Schmidbauer zeigt die Entwicklungslinien und die Wege der Neurologie von der Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart und zwar nicht als chronologische Prozession, sondern als Etappen mit rasanten Fortschritten, Rückschritten, Stillständen und Irrwegen in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition, Erfahrung, Soziologie, Theorie und Behandlungspraxis einer gegebenen Epoche.

More and more people, particularly the very elderly, are becoming interested in what is known as fasting to death - a method of ending their own lives in a self-determined way.

Professional palliative care not only involves providing demanding medical and nursing care for clients, but is also emotionally burdensome for everyone involved.

Professional palliative care not only involves providing demanding medical and nursing care for clients, but is also emotionally burdensome for everyone involved.

Dieses Buch wendet sich an Personen, die Menschen unterschiedlicher Glaubensrichtungen und Kulturen vor und während des Sterbens betreuen, sowie an Berufsgruppen, die mit dem Umgang mit Verstorbenen betraut sind.

Dieses Buch wendet sich an Personen, die Menschen unterschiedlicher Glaubensrichtungen und Kulturen vor und während des Sterbens betreuen, sowie an Berufsgruppen, die mit dem Umgang mit Verstorbenen betraut sind.

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