History of medicine

At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front.

From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the ';by turns fascinating and ghastly' (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) story of surgery's developmentfrom the Stone Age to the present dayblending meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling.

The 17th Century Parisian doctor who made blood transfusion history.

Extrait : "L'histoire de la Médecine — pour répondre à l'état d'esprit actuel — ne peut plus être le récit des systèmes éphémères qui ont tour à tour gouverné l'art médical et qui représentent plutôt le tableau des variations doctrinales que celui de l'évolution progressive de la science.

What was mothering like in the past?

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population.

There can be little doubt that the Romans experienced many of the illnesses that are still encountered today, and individuals have always had to decide how best to deal with their health-related concerns.

Extrait : "Quand on remonte à l'origine des pratiques médicales, plusieurs points d'interrogation se dressent : D'où vient la purgation ?

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?

Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.

This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.

After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian.

Plants were an essential part of medieval life.

DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.

The Situation - A Radical Journey Thru Sisterhood is an intimate portrayal of two sisters, Carolyn and Lila, whose lives are deeply intertwined over forty years.

As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and science of transmissible diseases.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities.

A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving itWhat are the top regrets of the dying?

'Remarkable and revelatory, a dazzling achievement.

To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous.

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer.

To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous.

Unraveling the enigma of the human heart - a captivating journey through medical history and personal discoveryFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul.

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.

#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable.

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.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, premio Nobel de Medicina y el mayor genio científico español de todos los tiempos, es retratado por fin en toda su complejidad en esta emocionante biografía.

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To my knowledge.

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

24 hours to save the NHS.

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past.

Who were the scientific geniuses behind some of the most innovative and important discoveries in modern medicine?

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

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business.

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

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

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

If the twenty-first century seems an unlikely stage for the return of a 14th-century killer, the authors of Return of the Black Death argue that the plague, which vanquished half of Europe, has only lain dormant, waiting to emerge again—perhaps, in another form.

Learn about astonishing medical breakthroughs and discoveries in The Medicine Book.

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.