History of medicine

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire''s history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history.

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire''s history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South''s defining experiences with death.

This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South''s defining experiences with death.

Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized.

Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized.

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness.

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness.

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession.

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession.

First published in 1991, this book charts the inception of the British National Health Service from 1911 to 1948.

First published in 1991, this book charts the inception of the British National Health Service from 1911 to 1948.

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship.

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship.

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

The contents of the letters published here, again show the great range of subjects that occupied Van Leeuwenhoek: from sugar candy, the shape and crystal structure of diamonds, the dissolution of silver crystals in aqua fortis to gold dust from Guinea dissolved in aqua regia and the dissolution and separation of gold, silver, and copper.

A commonly-held model of the doctor-patient relationship casts it as a subject/object relationship: broadly the patient is a 'text', and the doctor the reader or interpreter of that text.

When Janet Rhys Dent is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, she decides to try to be a "e;good patient"e;.

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

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

"e;The Other Side of Medicine"e; is an amusing and challenging reflection of changes and fashions in general practice.

Cinema and medicine have been inextricably linked since the earliest days of film, with doctors appearing in fictional films before criminals, the clergy or even cowboys.

John Marks is something of a national treasure.

In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook investigates the very beginnings of tropical medicine through the work of Dr George Low (1872-1952).

Twenty-Six Portland Place is a ground-breaking exploration of the early years of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, from its foundation in 1907 to its half-century in 1957.

'Today, there exists a robust body of work connecting narrative theory and practice with medical theory, practice, teaching, and research.

A guide to clinical effectiveness and governance, this second edition includes clinical governance issues.

This work includes forewords by Sir Liam Donaldson and Peter Wheeler, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health; Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

This significant work records the history of the pioneering British Home and Hospital for Incurables, founded in 1861.

Sexually transmitted infections remain a global health concern with the World Health Organization reporting over 340 million new cases of bacterial and protozoal STI every year, worldwide.

What systems can be set up in primary care to recognise child abuse?

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americafrom eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of ';paleo posture'In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude ';posture' photos of college students.

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius'' China Root Epistle.

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius'' China Root Epistle.

The first history of malaria control efforts in tropical Africa, contributing to the emerging sub-discipline of the historical epidemiology of contemporary disease challenges.

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.

The first history of malaria control efforts in tropical Africa, contributing to the emerging sub-discipline of the historical epidemiology of contemporary disease challenges.

The most influential doctor of later antiquity, Galen wrote extensively on logic and the philosophy of science.