History of medicine

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care.

Since the AIDS epidemic was recognized, information on safer sex has been assumed to be the most crucial means of preventing further spread of the disease.

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

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

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.

Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America.

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century.

This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s.

Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify.

This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon.

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half.

A multidisciplinary study of pre-Columbian South Americacentering on the psychoactive plant genus AnadenantheraAs cultures formed and evolved in pre-Columbian South America, Anadenanthera became one of the most widely used shamanic inebriants.

This book tells the story of one of medicine's most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy.

Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor.

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "e;There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.

Originally published in 1990, Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology is a biographical reference work about the recipients of Nobel Prizes in Medicine or Physiology from 1901-1989.

He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century.

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy.

First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power.

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

Fedunkiw focuses on three recipients - the University of Toronto (the leading Ontario medical school), McGill University ( Canada's medical school ), and Dalhousie University (the struggling Maritime school) - to demonstrate how the money made possible the introduction of full-time clinical teaching and encouraged greater public and private support for medical education.

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c.

Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of "e;certainty"e; in medical practice.

The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resurrected not merely the methods but also the research projects of Aristotle and other Ancients.

Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature.

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway.

Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex.

This compelling new account looks back to the early twentieth-century origins and subsequent development of HIV/AIDS before 1981.

"e;A well-written, compendious, and deeply researched history of psychoanalysis from the 1880s until World War II"e; (The Journal of Modern History).

The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature.

Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it.

This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady.

Examines the role of values in psychology and urges new directions of impact through interdisciplinary collaboration to face global issues.

This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.

This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century.

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.

A successful vaccine for the prevention and/or immunotherapy against HIV/AIDS is one of the prominent challenges of the 21st century.

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students.

Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an active interest in the formulation of these policies.

In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization.

This book deals with the process of the diffusion of cohabitation in Europe and discusses its impact upon fundamental changes in family formation.

In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-Gonzalez examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.

In reconstructing the birth and development of the notion of 'unconscious', historians of ideas have heavily relied on the Freudian concept of Unbewussten, retroactively projecting the psychoanalytic unconscious over a constellation of diverse cultural experiences taking place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries between France and Germany.

The early 2020s marked the fortieth anniversary of the first confirmed cases of AIDS and a new wave of historical interest in the ongoing epidemic.

This unique book is the first to fully explore the history of autism - from the first descriptions of autistic-type behaviour to the present day.

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

In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, Jose Jouve Martin explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent.

Few things tell us more of a nation's general well-being than the development of the life-expectancy of its citizens; the rising standards of health that they come to demand; and how evenly that improvement is shared throughout society.