History of medicine

Blood in Motion is a textbook in Cardiovascular Science.

Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste.

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

Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.

As a five-year-old, Shelley Fraser is known for mischief.

This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can't self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a "e;Last Chance?

Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in historya transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine.

Plague is a terrifying mystery.

From its founding 1736, Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor, elderly, and dying.

In Psychiatry in Indiana: The First 175 Years, authors Philip M.

What I am really anxious to hear is the final cause of your monstrous fiction.

Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser is a compelling and unique exploration of the profound, often underestimated, role of infectious diseases, particularly typhus, in shaping human civilisation.

Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lww/Lemberg).

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The story of frankincense and myrrh runs in tandem with man's evolution.

The engaging and eye-opening story of how we and our ancestors entered the world.

Eight women who changed the worldCaroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma GoldmanSignificant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists.

A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon.

In this book of amazing oddities, the successor to his popular Cabinet of Medical Curiositiesand The Two-Headed Boy, Jan Bondeson explores various surprising and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine: Does people's hair go white after a sudden fright; can the image of the killer be seen in the eyes of a murdered person; does the severed head of a guillotined person maintain some degree of consciousness?

Prepare to feel queasy.

Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in the development of modern medicine.

Most histories of medicine focus on the elite royal colleges of London and the exotic diseases and squalor of the city slums, but, according to Richard Moore, the real story of the emergence of healthcare as an integral component of the welfare state was written in the provincial shires.

In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a 'guinea pig'.

This unique book is the first to fully explore the history of autism - from the first descriptions of autistic-type behaviour to the present day.

This unique book is the first to fully explore the history of autism - from the first descriptions of autistic-type behaviour to the present day.

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.

This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of the dying and deceased patient.

This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history.

The History of Medicine is an amiable amble through medicine's past, designed as a primer for those taking history of medicine modules as part of their studies and for the wider public seeking a relaxed yet informative read.

Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada.

Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada.

Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession.

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In 1918 the Spanish flu epidemic swept the world and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number that died during the four years of the First World War.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

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

Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period.

In 1918 the Spanish flu epidemic swept the world and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number that died during the four years of the First World War.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

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In her meticulously researched history, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh challenges readers to rethink the norms of women's health and treatment in Canada and the United States since 1800.

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

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada.

From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century.

From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century.

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

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.

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.