History of medicine

Auf Empfehlung des Wissenschaftsrats wurde der Querschnittsbereich Geschichte, Theorie, Ethik der Medizin als benotetes Pflichtfach für Medizinstudierende in der ärztlichen Approbationsordnung verankert.

Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being.

Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy.

Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers.

This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model.

Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag.

The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio.

The title purports to introduce Gua Sha to the general public as an effective yet safe therapeutic protocol with a short learning curve, making it an extremely appropriate form of home-based treatment.

From grocery store to doctor's office, alternative medicine is everywhere.

Medicinal plants and the natural products within them, still remain the starting point for breakthroughs in the development of safe, pharmacologically active synthetic molecules for use in a wide variety of clinical situations.

This original work examines the differences in medical advances on the two sides of the Spanish Civil War.

In 1901 William Bateson, Professor of Biology at Cambridge, published a renewed version of a lecture which he had delivered the year before to the Royal Horticultural Society in London (reprinted in the book as an appendix).

The present collection by Professor GarcA-a-Ballester deals with medicine and science (i.

This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery.

Historical Diseases from a Modern Perspective: The American Experience is a must read for any student of history or fan of historical novels.

Encephalitis Lethargica: During and After the Epidemic is akin to a detective novel about a major medical mystery that remains unsolved.

In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present.

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

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century.

The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions.

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Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

The first monograph on the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1914.

The 'material turn' in critical theory - and particularly the turn towards the body coupled with scientific insights from biomedicine, biology and physics - is becoming an important path in fields of humanities-based scholarly inquiry.

The first comprehensive study of the origins, motivations, and methods of Greek doctors who investigated the universe as a whole.

The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway.

This book provides a comprehensive account of vascular biology and pathology and its significance for health and disease.

This comprehensive volume provides a balanced and easily readable account of the rise of modern sleep medicine, its history and developmental milestones.

A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.

In a quarter million clinical laboratories in the United States alone, techs work every day with little visibility or recognition.

This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "e;Seybert Report,"e; based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist seances.

Within the framework of a global political and sanitarian crisis that broke out in March 2020, this book proposes a new contemporary look at the great pandemic of the 20th century, the Spanish flu of 1918-1919.

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one.

"e;The book lets us see the human side of physicians-the humorous, the heartwarming-the tradition of health care in Kentucky.

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.

Multiple-choice questions are an ideal way to improve understanding and revise for examinations.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation.

A provocative presentation of medicolegal controversies within the American court system from the late 19th through the late 20th century.

This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health.

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle.

"e;This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes.