History of medicine

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies.

This book comprises a series of lectures given by celebrated Soviet neurophysiologist Nikolai Alexandrovich Bernstein in Moscow in 1925 and first published in Russian in 1926.

This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories.

This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

This book explores the understudied history of the so-called 'incurables' in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions.

This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia.

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health.

Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical treatises, religious texts, public discourses, and legal documents, this book examines the rich historical context in which controversies surrounding the medical neglect of children erupted onto the American scene.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

This book analyzes and discusses in detail art therapy, a specific tool used to sustain health in affective developments, rehabilitation, motor skills and cognitive functions.

The book covers important topics in the psychiatric genetics (PG) field.

This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today.

This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health.

This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War.

This lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton - covering the period which can legitimately be called the "e;dawn"e; of the sciences.

This book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters, Edith and Florence Stoney, who pioneered the use of new electromedical technologies, especially X-rays but also ultraviolet radiation and diathermy.

This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean.

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy.

This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei's (1080-1154) collection of 90 medical case records - Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun ?

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s.

This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period.

Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement AwardHomes can be both comforting and troubling places.

« Comment vous portez-vous, ma bonne ?

 « Comme celui de Napoléon, l’art de Pasteur consistait à toujours livrer bataille au moment choisi, à l’endroit choisi, sur son terrain », déclarait François Jacob.

Grossesse, ménopause, malformations du fœtus, etc… : dans la vie d’une femme, nombreuses sont les annonces d’événements attendus ou non, parfois douloureux.

Désirer un enfant est la chose la plus compréhensible et partagée au monde.

D’où naissent les enfants ?

La plupart du temps, la naissance est une formalité.

Que penser des embryons congelés qui défient les lois du temps et menacent de survivre à leurs géniteurs ?

Traces the history of anti-vaxxers, from 19th-century opposition to Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine to modern-day vaccine hesitancy and misinformation.

Extrait : "Parmi les maladies, il en est qui sont aussi individuelles que les plaies et les fractures, et qui se remarquent dans tous les temps et dans tous les lieux ; il en d'autres qui sont spéciales à certaines contrées, sans qu'il soit possible d'expliquer par quel concours de circonstances locales elles naissent dans tel district, et pourquoi elles n'en sortent pas.

Extrait : "L'histoire de la Médecine — pour répondre à l'état d'esprit actuel — ne peut plus être le récit des systèmes éphémères qui ont tour à tour gouverné l'art médical et qui représentent plutôt le tableau des variations doctrinales que celui de l'évolution progressive de la science.

Extrait : "Le Conseil supérieur de l'instruction publique, présidé par le Ministre, donne son avis sur les programmes, méthodes d'enseignement, modes d'examens, règlements administratifs et disciplinaires relatifs aux écoles publiques, le tarif des droits d'inscription d'examen et de diplôme à percevoir dans les établissements d'enseignement supérieur, chargés de la collation des grades, ainsi que les conditions d'âge pour l'admission aux grades.

Extrait : "Quand on remonte à l'origine des pratiques médicales, plusieurs points d'interrogation se dressent : D'où vient la purgation ?

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire.

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In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignoredCity of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteriaand the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men.

Women came through the doors at a community-based birthing center in the South Bronx seeking prenatal care.

Si selon Soltjenitsyne, le mélanome est la reine des tumeurs malignes, depuis toujours le cancer du sein en est le modèle.

This is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care delivery or their programs with LGBTQ-inclusive care.

This innovative care program blends nursing care and meaningful activities to promote peaceful and relaxing end-of-life experiences for older adults with late-stage dementia.

"e;At a time when there is considerable interest in the palliative care needs of people with advanced dementia, this 'tour de force' on the development/psycho-metric testing of 11 tools (all included) will be invaluable to both researchers and practitioners wanting to develop better care.

What should medicine do when it cant save your life?

Viet Nam may be the only war we ever fought, or perhaps that was ever fought, in which the heroism of the American soldier was accompanied by humanitarianism unmatched in the annals of warfare.