History of medicine

This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine.

In this fascinating book, Jacques Balthazart presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans.

This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to investigate this dynamic and exciting field.

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

During the nineteenth century, over 1.

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

The post-World War II era was a tumultuous period in the world of psychiatry.

This innovative care program blends nursing care and meaningful activities to promote peaceful and relaxing end-of-life experiences for older adults with late-stage dementia.

In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have never been edited or studied.

Plague is a terrifying mystery.

Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France.

The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "e;traditional"e; medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine.

This book describes the current state of the art in the field of palliative care in children and adults.

The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes.

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

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

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies-through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery-and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America.

Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community.

An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century.

In Germanic and Nordic languages, the term for 'public health' literally translates to 'people's health', for example Volksgesundheit in German, folkhalsa in Swedish and kansanterveys in Finnish.

For patients and family caregivers the journey through illness and transitions of care is characterized by a series of progressive physical and emotional losses.

Originally published in 1981, this comprehensive volume is intended for medical economists, clinical pharmacologists, physicians, pharmacists and consumers, as well as planner and administrators who must determine relevant policy and legislation in the area of the provision of medicines.

How do we picture ourselves dying?

This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine.

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

This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of the dying and deceased patient.

The history of neurology as seen through the lens of the filmmaker is fascinating and extraordinary.

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c.

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments.

Walk into the local health food shop or pick up today's paper and the chances are that you'll see adverts for acupuncture and herbal medicine, hypnotists and homeopaths.

Henry Daniel, fourteenth-century medical writer, Dominican friar, and contemporary of Chaucer, is one of the most neglected figures to whom we can attribute a substantial body of extant works in Middle English.

This book defines "e;translationality"e; by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a humanities (phenomenological/performative) approach to translational medicine.

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs?

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.

Annotated translation of a key text in the history of medical and philosophical thinking about the human body.

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works.

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

When Charles Miller Fisher was born in 1913 there was very little scientific knowledge about stroke.

Charles Buck draws on three decades of study, practice and teaching in this book to provide a relevant and engaging account of the origins of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century.

From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity and masculinity.

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system.

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "e;moral brain"e; became a serious endeavour.

Using historical and anthropological perspectives to examine mind-body relationships in western thought, this book interweaves topics that are usually disconnected to tell a big, important story in the histories of medicine, science, philosophy, religion, and political rhetoric.

In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west.

First Published in 1999.