History of medicine

History of Rabies in the Americas, Volume III: Reflections, Reports, Retrospectives, and Revelations is a natural outgrowth of the prior two volumes, which presented topical and spatio-temporal insights on this theme.

History of Rabies in the Americas, Volume III: Reflections, Reports, Retrospectives, and Revelations is a natural outgrowth of the prior two volumes, which presented topical and spatio-temporal insights on this theme.

An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

Presents the historical process by which statistics became the language for health institutions working in China, Taiwan, and the World.

Examines the transnational development of rehabilitation initiatives for disabled ex-servicemen of the First World War.

This book explores sheltered employment for disabled people in the British welfare state, focusing on Remploy as the flagship provider.

This book explores sheltered employment for disabled people in the British welfare state, focusing on Remploy as the flagship provider.

Death comes for us all, and the desire to ease into that death is as ancient as humankind.

Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society.

During the American Civil War, disease and infection caused by poor medical care and lack of proper hygiene were the main causes of death to both Confederate and Union soldiers.

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After receiving the bad news of terminal illness, many told the author the first thought they had was What do we do now?

From the beginning of mankind, health and health issues have played a major role in life, but the issues and care have evolved enormously from the time when the first settlers set foot in America to the present.

The precepts laid down are the result of the experience acquired in the war in the Peninsula, from the first battle of Rolia in 1808, to the last in Belgium, of Waterloo in 1815They have been the means of saving the lives, and of relieving, if not even of preventing, the miseries of thousands of our fellow-creatures throughout the civilized world.

While learning about ways to bring some fun into the lives of those who are long-term confined to home or hospital, the reader discovers that the book is really about hope, dignity, and love.

Cindy Marks is a hospice nurse who has unfortunately witnessed heartbreaking fear and desperation in her patients and family members as they attempt to come to grips with death.

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.

This book tells of the life of an extraordinary physician who overcame a teenage hunting accident in which he lost his left thumb and left eye.

This remarkably insightful book gives true meaning to the apocryphal moan from the pharmaceutical CEO as he traveled home after an FDA slap down: Drug development aint for sissies.

For centuries prior to the development of an effective vaccination against rabies, the bite of a mad dog was linked to a horrific ailment marked by convulsions, an utter dread of swallowing liquids, uncontrollable thrashing, and even the tendency to bark and attempt to bite othersa horrid prelude to an agonizing death.

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

I never expected to enter the frighteningworld of cancer.

The book reveals a new look at medicine and Health Care System as a factor that significantly influences the history of mankind as a species.

In this exciting book, Issa Iskandar Al-Maalouf takes us on a journey through the roots of medicine since the ancient civilizations of Egypt, passing through the Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, Christians and Muslims, reviewing the development of medicine, its origins and concepts in an interesting manner that highlights the importance of medical study and anatomy.

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 reference book is all about the troubled times in the western world with all those deaths, diseases and dark times.

Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies.

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Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies.

This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places.

Dispensaries were created in cities to look after poor sick people from about 1770 until the beginning of the NHS in 1948.

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This exciting and inspiring book takes us from the series "Scientific Views" on an amazing journey throughout our understanding of human development.

Throughout history, medical science has been at the helm of human development, from Neanderthals stitching their wounds with bone needles to modern organ transplantation.

A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon.