History of medicine

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "e;like cures like,"e; counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.

Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers.

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England.

Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized.

Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe.

Dispelling the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s, Kirsten E.

A stimulating record chartering the history and pioneers of in-vitro fertilization, forty years after the birth of the first baby.

Grief is a very individual experience and it can impact all aspects of a person's life.

Grief is a very individual experience and it can impact all aspects of a person's life.

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China's early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy.

This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin.

Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact.

The treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex challenge.

David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians.

Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury.

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship.

In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook investigates the very beginnings of tropical medicine through the work of Dr George Low (1872-1952).

Providing the latest information on preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of tuberculosis and AIDS, this is the only book to place a major emphasis on the increasing coexistence of these two life-threatening diseases in individuals.

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country's historical demography.

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions.

Founded in 1934 as a small community hospital - open to all patients, regardless of race, religion, language, or ethnic background - Montreal's Jewish General has grown to become an internationally recognized facility, and a major component of McGill University's medical school.

Who gets diabetes and why?

This book provides a broad overview of diagnostic pathology, integrating historical perspectives with the current practice of diagnostic pathology across various sub-fields such as surgical pathology,  cytopathology, autopsy and forensic pathology, neuropathology and more.

Forensic science has become a mainstay of popular culture on television, in movies, books, and podcasts.

Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history.

Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine.

This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals.

Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal!

At the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, amongst the first acts of Charles II's government was the abolition of the New Model Army and the sweeping away of the legislation and institutions that had supported it, including most of the medical provisions provided by the republican regime.

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

Transportation remains one of the largest contributors to global carbon dioxide emissions with the majority of vehicles using fossil-based fuels such as gasoline and diesel.

Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care.

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

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe.

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Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities.

In 1666 Valentine Greatrakes achieved brief but widespread fame as a miracle healer.

This engaging book examines what the Hippocratic Oath meant to Greek physicians 2400 years ago and reflects on its relevance to medical ethics today.

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW).

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.

Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works.

The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal inscription and impression in France and the French Atlantic from the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries.

This book explores the various psychosocial, sociocultural, and contextual factors that affect the sexual health of Black students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and how this environment can help develop strategies to improve sexual health outcomes for its students.

Sanitation and intestinal health is something we often take for granted today.

Why do we still have nits?

This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated since.