History of medicine

Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire - a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually.

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease.

After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present.

The first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.

From Physick to Pharmacology addresses the important, albeit neglected history of the distribution and sale of medicinal drugs in England from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures.

Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.

For some elderly people, the body weakens while the mind stays alert.

This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.

De nombreuses personnes sont capables de percevoir avec finesse l'atmosphère d'un lieu ou d'une maison.

As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture.

Since its founding in 1957, the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) has been deeply integrated in the development of international collaboration in the field of neurology, and has played a key part in asserting with dissemination of information and the need to learn from each other, independent of political systems, but with a basis in the development of democracy worldwide.

A fascinating biography of the world''s pioneer neurosurgeon, his influence on the discipline and the social issues he championed fiercely.

A transnational history of the 1720 French plague epidemic and its ramifications in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world.

“Persuasive, impassioned.

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians.

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort.

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.

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In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them written from July 1707 to June 1712.

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.

Integrative Medicine seamlessly blends Eastern and Western medical traditions into an informative and readable resource.

Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances.

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions - strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat - which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale.

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe.

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing.

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F.

In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Grammatik der medizinischen Texte" verfügbar.

In this book, Dale Hutchinson traces the history of American healthcare and wellbeing from the colonial era to the present, drawing on evidence from material culture and historical documents.

Noch immer sind mit der vormodernen Medizin Stereotype von Aderlass und Abführmitteln, gequälten Patienten und hilflosen ärzten verbunden.

Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand.

Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day.

Examining the complex dynamics of medical treatment options and the variable character of surgical technologies, this volume broadens and transcends the notion of technological innovation.

'With General Practice currently facing existential challenges, it is truly inspirational to be reminded what determined individuals, with a clear set of intensely human values, can achieve.