History of medicine

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I.

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

This book details how "e;Alzheimer Disease"e; went from being an obscure neurologic diagnosis to a household word.

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition, separated from the assorted, vernacular traditions of healing practices.

This fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.

For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe.

The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century.

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health.

Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human.

A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day.

This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language.

In "e;A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying"e; Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, a physician and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, offer insights to help medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and others become more aware of the different stages in the dying process and learn how to communicate more effectively with patients and their families.

About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime.

The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved - through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving - are fundamentals of human societies.

In this study, first published in 2004, Nobel laureate Robert Fogel examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries.

Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bA te noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture.

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns.

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Spermatogenesis involves the coordination of a number of signaling pathways, which culminate into production of sperm.

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine - scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional - in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.

The American Civil War is the most read about era in our history, and among its most compelling aspects is the story of Civil War medicine - the staggering challenge of treating wounds and disease on both sides of the conflict.

This title was originally published in 1970.

The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology - selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.

Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis.

One of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and pediatricians, Donald Woods Winnicott (1896 - 1971) was the creative mind behind some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child, adolescent and adult analysis.

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.

The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany explores and analyses the experience of illness in German society under National Socialism.

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century.

Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly over time.

As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain.

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases.

This is the first major study of a significant post within the British government.

Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two countries helped to disseminate a culture of research, resulting in the transformation of the medical sciences and the pharmaceutical industry in both countries.

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Chester Pierce's list of accomplishments was second to none: graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, founding national chair of the Black Psychiatrists of America, and namesake of the American Psychiatric Association's Human Rights Award.

This authoritative handbook, with its clear, concise descriptions of the important features of many common infectious diseases, will serve as a valuable guide for medical students and physicians in general paediatric practice.

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.

In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-Gonzalez examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.

In the popular imagination, the notion of military medicine prior to the twentieth century is dominated by images of brutal ignorance, superstition and indifference.