History of medicine

This deep dive into humanity's very long fight against malaria is "e;a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today"e; (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction).

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

The treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex challenge.

Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century.

"e;Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS.

Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school: Complete Plot Summary and AnalysisKey Facts About the WorkAnalysis of Major CharactersThemes, Motifs, and SymbolsExplanation of Important QuotationsAuthor's Historical ContextSuggested Essay Topics25-Question Review QuizThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: humanity; immortality and legacy; scientific racism; racialized poverty; hela cells; red nail polish.

No one knows if Florence Nightingale deliberately set out to become a nursing champion, but it is clear that the 1859 publication of her book Notes on Nursing: What It Is, And What It Is Not secured her place in nursing history.

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth century Methodist missionary work and women's active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

A gripping tale that traces medicine's extraordinary historyKill or Cure tells the riveting history of medicine from chipping holes in skulls to the latest gene therapy and revolutionary cancer treatments.

A gripping tale that traces medicine's extraordinary historyKill or Cure tells the riveting history of medicine from chipping holes in skulls to the latest gene therapy and revolutionary cancer treatments.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2015 As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category.

Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Doctors today employ better diagnostic procedures and innovativesurgical procedures, such as the use of robots.

A reissue of Rachel Holmes's landmark biography of Dr James Barry, one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age.

What makes wars drag on and why do they end when they do?

This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods.

Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body.

On Whit Monday 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak and hardly able to walk appeared in Nuremberg.

Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and through them assumptions about the nature of the body and identity.

Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "e;health,"e; and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease.

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "e;moral brain"e; became a serious endeavour.

What we now call 'deep venous thrombosis' (DVT) has been studied in diverse ways during the last 200-300 years.

This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on "e;Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period"e; held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain.

The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett's Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was suggested to me several years ago by Dr.

This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character-he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries.

An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth centuryScurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal.

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and religion shaped Peninsular societies and connected them to a Western European background during the Middle Ages.

The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self.

A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century FranceHysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions.

A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age.

A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age.

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Food historian Emma Kay tells the story of our centuries-old relationship with herbs.

Food historian Emma Kay tells the story of our centuries-old relationship with herbs.

As the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes in the UK have been on our NHS heroes.

As the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, all eyes in the UK have been on our NHS heroes.

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed "e;cult expert"e; of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called "e;excited delirium syndrome.

This introductory textbook presents medical history as a theoretically rich discipline, one that constantly engages with major social questions about ethics, bodies, state power, disease, public health and mental disorder.

This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged.

This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged.

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe.

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.