History of medicine

The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes.

Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity.

Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity.

Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care.

Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care.

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes.

The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes.

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

In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

We tend to think of sleep as a private concern, a night-time retreat from the physical world into the realm of the subconscious.

Can a disease be an idea?

A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries.

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

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Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes.

Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes.

The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics.

The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics.

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

In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

Can a disease be an idea?

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences.

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences.

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease.

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease.

Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death.

Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death.

An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.

An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.

Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period.

Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history.

Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolutiona new way of looking at cancer and its causes.

Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from the 18th century, followed by an analysis of some effects, political, economic and social.

Injury of the spinal cord has been known since antiquity.

Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential.

Why another book about vaccines?

While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians.

While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians.

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

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales.

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales.

Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain is the first detailed exploration of the hundreds of charges of neglect against doctors who were contracted to the 'new' poor law after the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.

Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain is the first detailed exploration of the hundreds of charges of neglect against doctors who were contracted to the 'new' poor law after the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.

"e;Recommended for high-school students as an introduction to the topic, and to general readers interested in browsing brief but fascinating medical history.

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.