History of medicine

Few English biographies about Japanese subjects provide such an intimate look into the subject's inner life.

Acht fast 200 Jahre alte homöopathische Haus- und Taschenapotheken, die bisher alle Hahnemann zugeschrieben wurden, stehen im Zentrum dieser Arbeit.

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.

The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust.

The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance.

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

Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war.

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Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated.

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plaguePlague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged.

As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs.

When cannabis tincture was withdrawn from the medical establishment in the UK in 1973, cannabis became regulated solely as an illicit drug.

The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.

Recent progress in the analysis and structural characterisation of materials has an increasing impact on studies of archaeological specimens.

Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galenthe most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocratesis a central figure in Western medicine.

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine.

Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging.

Pediatric palliative care is a field of significant growth as health care systems recognize the benefits of palliative care in areas such as neonatal intensive care, pediatric ICU, and chronic pediatric illnesses.

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

With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland.

Gute medizinische Sterbebegleitung und ein menschenwürdiger Tod besitzen in unserer Gesellschaft einen hohen Stellenwert.

This book, which will appeal to all with an interest in the history of radiology and physics, casts new light on the life and career of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, showing how his personality was shaped by his youth in the Netherlands and his teachers in Switzerland.

From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America.

Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone.

Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known.

This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948.

By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to understanding of today's hospitals.

Even for the most experienced healthcare professional, managing the last few days of life can be difficult.

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called 'prion diseases', this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe.

Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology.

This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War.

In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M.

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

A timely biography of General William C.

This edited book includes new policy-relevant research on women's health issues in Africa.

Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy represents the first full-length study to confront seriously the well-rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer.

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain's colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations.

This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners from 1590 to 1740.

Death studies have, over the last twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying.

';A well-founded and presented description of the integral role that psychoactive substances played in ancient societies.

Collection of essays exploring the strong connections between ancient philosophy and ancient medicine.

How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease?

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England's relationship to the material world.

This important volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology - the cross-cultural study of health, illness and medical care.