History of medicine

This book explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in nineteenth-century Ireland.

This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.

Originally published in 1990, Medicine at the Courts of Europe 1500-1837 is a collection of essays examining the whole range of medical activities in a variety of European courts, from Rome of the Borgias to the Russia of Catherine the Great.

The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality.

This informative new book presents an accessible account of the development of medical genetics over the past 70 years, one of the most important areas of 20th, and now 21st, century science and medicine.

This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.

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From grocery store to doctor's office, alternative medicine is everywhere.

What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it?

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "e;woman question,"e; a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession.

This book examines the impact of the recent global health crisis on the urban development of Vienna and Tokyo.

Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs.

Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis.

These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory.

Harry Benjamin (18851986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine.

Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds of HIV/AIDS service, the book examines the crisis facing African American communities.

Die Geschichte der Krankenpflege zu beschreiben ist notwendig, um Gegenwart verstehen und Zukunft planen zu können.

Written by two anaesthetists, one British and one American, this unique book focuses on the transatlantic story of anaesthesia.

This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny.

Did early modern people care about their health?

This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro De Animalibus Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest philosophers and physicians of the 13th century, Peter of Spain (later Pope John XXI, 1205-1277).

Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France.

Most histories of medicine focus on the elite royal colleges of London and the exotic diseases and squalor of the city slums, but, according to Richard Moore, the real story of the emergence of healthcare as an integral component of the welfare state was written in the provincial shires.

The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s.

What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision?

Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and the Middle East.

This deep dive into humanity's very long fight against malaria is "e;a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today"e; (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction).

Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE****A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR** Riveting invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases.

Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology.

Beginning with the earliest records available describing the dental health of the Indians before the arrival of European settlers, Dr Gullett gives a detailed and carefully documented history of dentistry in Canada.

This book explores key aspects of scientific reasoning, clinical methodology, and evidence-based practice, using quotes from the lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as a starting point for discussion and in-depth analysis.

Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "e;Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick .

Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "e;Bedlam"e;, is a unique institution.

An acknowledged expert on the history of modern pharmacology and drug therapy, John Parascandola here brings together 19 of his most important papers on these subjects.

What are the real disease entities in psychiatry?

Mit der Angliederung des Zahnärztlichen Instituts an die Universität Bern im Jahr 1921 begann ein langes Ringen um die Stellung des Fachs innerhalb der Hochschule und der Medizinischen Fakultät.

A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them.

Composed while its author was the ruler of Tibet, Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century.

Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view.

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health.

The development of ophthalmology to its present level of sophisticated practice is an extraordinary story of research, experiment, and achievement.