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 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.
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.
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.
Die Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte bietet eine Übersicht über das Gesamtgebiet der Medizingeschichte von den frühen Hochkulturen bis in die heutige Zeit.
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings.
Previous volumes of Franz Kocher's series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature have provided autograph copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages.
This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic.
