History of medicine

Nightingale's Legacy: The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders shows "e;the nurses of today"e; how to leverage the wisdom of the icons of nursing to inform their own daily work and fuel the future of nursing.

Nightingale's Legacy: The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders shows "e;the nurses of today"e; how to leverage the wisdom of the icons of nursing to inform their own daily work and fuel the future of nursing.

ANA's What Would Florence Do?

ANA's What Would Florence Do?

Covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.

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A true collector's item, Nurturing Yesterday's Child offers an illustrated history of the care of children from early Greek, Roman and Egyptian times to the present - a history that will inform you and touch your heart.

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Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment.

This book tells of the life of an extraordinary physician who overcame a teenage hunting accident in which he lost his left thumb and left eye.

This reference book is all about the troubled times in the western world with all those deaths, diseases and dark times.

In ›Die Erfindung des ADHS-Syndroms‹ wird die faszinierende Geschichte dieser weit verbreiteten neurobiologischen Störung von ihren Anfängen bis zu den aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen beleuchtet.

Highlights the overlooked contributions of women like Betsy Cadwaladyr and Mother M.

During the American Civil War, disease and infection caused by poor medical care and lack of proper hygiene were the main causes of death to both Confederate and Union soldiers.

This is a revised critical edition of philosopher and scientist, Francesco Patrizi's manuscript, Il Delfino, overo del bacio (c.

Changing when you eat, sleep and exercise can help you to treat, manage - and even reverse - type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness.

This pop-science volume is Paul de Kruif's classic account of microscopic discoveries, and it presents a history of the most important figures in medicine.

The life of Vesalius, the foremost pioneer of modern anatomy, has never before been told in full.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing.

The Middle Ages covers a span of roughly one thousand years, and through that time people were subject to an array of not only deadly diseases but deplorable living conditions.

Forget the stereotype!

Forget the stereotype!

There can be little doubt that the Romans experienced many of the illnesses that are still encountered today, and individuals have always had to decide how best to deal with their health-related concerns.

A doctor explores how ancient medical practices can be applied to modern heath issues and illnesses.

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ll in 1682.

A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ll in 1682.

Nursing has always been a challenging but rewarding profession.

The phrase 'global health' appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies.

The phrase 'global health' appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies.

Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies.

Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies.

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.

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.

Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved?

Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved?

Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time.

Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time.

Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history.

Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history.

Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical community, through to its impact on the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries.

Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical community, through to its impact on the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries.

Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe's hospitals in the twentieth-century.

Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe's hospitals in the twentieth-century.

Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare - for at least 500 years, accounting has been an essential part of medical practice with significant moral, social and epistemological implications.

Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare - for at least 500 years, accounting has been an essential part of medical practice with significant moral, social and epistemological implications.

This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey.

This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey.

Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.