History of medicine

Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "e;health,"e; and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease.

This book comprehensively reviews the 10 most influential epidemics in history, going beyond morbid accounts of symptoms and statistics to tell the often forgotten stories of what made these epidemics so calamitous.

Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Galens Kommentare zu den Epidemien des Hippokrates" verfügbar.

Hatfield's Herbal is the story of how people all over Britain have used its wild plants throughout history, for reasons magical, mystical and medicinal.

Originally published in 1987, this book examines the priorities of health policy in the late 20th Century and the varied approaches or strategies to foster the prevention or control of disease.

The word "e;pharmacopoeia"e; has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs.

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.

Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance.

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

If DNA cannot be isolated, don't give up the identification!

Examines how Galen and his medieval Arabic successors invoke Plato''s Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy.

Jerry Stannard assembled a legendary collection of materials on the history of botany from Homer to Linnaeus, and his mastery of the field was acknowledged as incomparable.

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iLong neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention.

Explore the many forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practiced today and discover their histories, guiding principles, purported benefits, and potential risks.

Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease - a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared.

This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs.

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

Explores how the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths reduced the maternal mortality rate and improved safety in pregnancy in Britain.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.

Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication.

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an 'epidemic' of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession.

Few things tell us more of a nation's general well-being than the development of the life-expectancy of its citizens; the rising standards of health that they come to demand; and how evenly that improvement is shared throughout society.

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Über das Riechorgan" verfügbar.

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the nineteenth-century.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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

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'.

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century.

In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805.

Epilepsy is more than just a physical condition, the fact of simply having epileptic seizures, it has cultural, geographic and historical meaning and significance which go beyond that of a neurological disorder, and which defy a single perspective.

International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "e;ointment of roses.

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now.

Auf Empfehlung des Wissenschaftsrats wurde der Querschnittsbereich Geschichte, Theorie, Ethik der Medizin als benotetes Pflichtfach für Medizinstudierende in der ärztlichen Approbationsordnung verankert.

Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being.

Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy.