History of medicine

Linked by Blood: Hemophilia and AIDS recounts the factors responsible for the widespread infection of people with hemophilia by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-contaminated blood and offers a prescription for addressing the challenges of future viral epidemics.

Comprising some 28,000 different species, orchids are by far the largest flowering plant family on Earth.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as scientific institutions.

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged.

As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization.

Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, TheLadies' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen.

Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) war nicht nur einer der Begründer der medizinischen Wissenschaft, sondern er setzte sich auch immer wieder für Reformen im Gesundheitswesen ein.

The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine.

This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials.

Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical community, through to its impact on the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries.

Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period.

This book sheds new light on the history of exercise physiology and how it essentially grew, thanks to the work of a few major Schools.

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform-an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher.

This powerful history describes the daily progression of the Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa and struck Europe and America from December 2013 to June 2016.

Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance.

In the late eighteenth century mental illness was treated with brutal and inhumane methods by 'mad-doctors', and the treatment of George III was no exception.

This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Written by a naturopathic physician specializing in complementary cancer care, Prostate Cancer: Thriving Through Treatment to Recovery provides solutions for maintaining health and improving quality of life during conventional cancer treatment.

For surgeons, physicians, and anatomists involved in the management and study of disorders of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas, eponyms are part of everyday communication.

Spreading to every corner of the Earth, the COVID-19 virus has had an unparalleled impact on all aspects of our lives.

Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare - for at least 500 years, accounting has been an essential part of medical practice with significant moral, social and epistemological implications.

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold.

Profiling 60 medical innovations and milestones from the 11th through 21st centuries, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also exploring their historical context and enduring legacy.

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system?

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies, to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop.

Revealing the forgotten ideas and philosophy behind early naturopathic osteopathy, Shirley Murray Strachan presents a reoriented historical view of Thomas Ambrose Bowen and his work, breaking from the prevailing twentieth-century legitimation narrative of mainstream chiropractic and osteopathy and exploring the contributions and practices of Australia's early cosmopolitan naturopathic osteopathy pioneers FG Roberts and Maurice Blackmore.

An updated edition of Jacques Pépin''s acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.

Praxisorientiertes Handbuch zur palliativen Pflege, das einfühlsam das "Leben in einem permanenten Augenblick" von Menschen mit einer Demenz beschreibt und zeigt, wie Pflegende sterbende demenzkranke Menschen pflegen, unterstützen und begleiten können.

This title was originally published in 1965.

In 1963, President John F.

Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth.

For author Don C Reed, father of a paralyzed son, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the greatest medical advance since penicillin.

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain.

This multidisciplinary volume offers new insights into the development of genres of medical discourse in changing socio-cultural contexts.

The first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it at the confluence of colonial medical practices, institutionalization, and social movements.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "25 Jahre Krebsforschung am Forschungszentrum der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR in Berlin-Buch" verfügbar.

In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today.

This book traces the historical roots of psychology''s ''developmental idea'' back to Christian beliefs from the past two millennia.

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed "e;cult expert"e; of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called "e;excited delirium syndrome.

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study.

Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide.

In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have never been edited or studied.

Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate.

The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic- causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history.