History of medicine

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.

From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects.

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War.

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War.

An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period.

An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period.

Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars.

Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars.

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

In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is considerably more complex.

Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire.

Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century.

Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century.

Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is still commonly thought of as the most picturesque of Britain's colonies overseas.

Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight.

Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight.

At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS.

Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies.

Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies.

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology.

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americafrom eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of ';paleo posture'In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude ';posture' photos of college students.

From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care.

The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity.

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

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The history of medicine has come to occupy a significant place in our understanding of modern society and the American cultural fabric.

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

From the time of its establishment in the eighteenth century until late in the nineteenth century, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine was the most respected medical institution in the United States.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century.

Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth.

Named a 2023 TOP BOOK ON CANNABIS by CBD Oracle 2020 GOLD MEDAL WINNER of the Nonfiction Book Awards (Nonfiction Authors Association) An Informative Read for an Audience Interested in Why and How Medical Cannabis Helps Treat a Range of IllnessesMaybe All of Them With cannabis approved in fourteen states (including the District and two US territories), medical cannabis approved in at least 35 states, and hemp (very-low-THC cannabis) off the controlled substances list, millions now treat their ills with medical cannabis or non-intoxicating cannabinoids like CBD.

A revealing glimpse into the tumultuous history of England's medieval period, full of knights in shining armor and terrible peasant suffering.

Many of the worlds most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident.

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.

Dispensaries were created in cities to look after poor sick people from about 1770 until the beginning of the NHS in 1948.

Outbreak in the Village is a fascinating account of the personal and professional journey of Dr.

In eighteenth-century Mexico, outbreaks of typhus and smallpox brought ordinary residents together with administrators, priests, and doctors to restore stability and improve the population's health.

Following the course of one disease over nearly two millennia, this book provides "e;a wonderful and highly readable history of Chinese medicine"e; (Isis).

Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.

'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This ';comfortingthoughtful' (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of lifefrom resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breathby the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door is a ';roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance' (The Boston Globe).

Drugs are used in the diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, prevention or cure of disease.