History of medicine

In 1930, George Riddoch, Charles Symonds, Russell Brain, Hugh Cairns, Macdonald Critchley, and Derek Denny-Brown formed the Hexagon Club with the aim of discussing over dinner developments in medical and surgical neurology.

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Personhood is central to the worldview of ancient India.

Personhood is central to the worldview of ancient India.

Ringworm and Irradiation: The Historical, Medical, and Legal Implications of the Forgotten Epidemic explores the history of the disease and the use of irradiation for the treatment of ringworm, an epidemic that was spread mainly among poor children in countries across the world in the first half of the 20th century.

A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the Trump Era.

A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the Trump Era.

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Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century.

In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.

Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre.

In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain.

Covering a previously unexplored area in the history of surgery, this innovative resource provides a historical overview of how surgeons managed the pain of an operation.

A comprehensive introduction to the concept of the "e;intact mind"e; and how it affects disability policy and practice.

Covering a previously unexplored area in the history of surgery, this innovative resource provides a historical overview of how surgeons managed the pain of an operation.

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr.

A riveting expose of medical debt collection in America - and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicineFor the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time.

A riveting expose of medical debt collection in America - and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicineFor the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time.

A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government.

A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government.

The Civil War U.

Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.

Over the past 70 years or so, psychiatry has come out of the shadows.

Over the past 70 years or so, psychiatry has come out of the shadows.

Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.

A comprehensive introduction to the concept of the "e;intact mind"e; and how it affects disability policy and practice.

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr.

En este libro presenta algunos medicamentos y procedimientos terapeuticos que en el pasado fueron parte de la medicina oficial, es decir, el lector no encontrara aqui ni las medicinas tradicionales, ni las alternativas o paralelas.

Dieses essential zeichnet die faszinierende Entwicklung der Koloskopie nach.

Dieses essential zeichnet die faszinierende Entwicklung der Koloskopie nach.

With a new Preface by Amy Catania, Executive Director of Historic Saranac LakePortrait of Healing chronicles the life and work of visionary physician Edward L.

It's time to examine the human history of viruses, vaccines, and antiviral drugs.

It's time to examine the human history of viruses, vaccines, and antiviral drugs.

A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people.

A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people.

People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers.

A unique historical review that traces health spending from ancient times to the present and forecasts 21st century trends.

A unique historical review that traces health spending from ancient times to the present and forecasts 21st century trends.

People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers.

Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?

Scabies is a parasitic disease caused by the human itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows through the skin leading to an intensely itchy rash.

Scabies is a parasitic disease caused by the human itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows through the skin leading to an intensely itchy rash.

The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical history.

The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical history.

In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong.

Is lowering your temperature when you have a fever helpful?

A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional effects of ICU stays.

The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations presents a wonderfully entertaining and eclectic range of quotations covering all aspects of medicine through the ages.

Feel great inside and out with the ground-breaking Pioppi Diet, which helped Tom Watson transform his life and inspired his book Downsizing.

Throughout history, women have overcome tremendous odds to make lasting contributions to science.