History of medicine

Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine.

In Trying to Give Ease, John K.

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.

An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.

The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G.

Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance.

The first medical book published in the American colonies The English Physician is a humble vest-pocket-sized 94-page medical guide for the common person, by the prolific herbalist and author Nicholas Culpeper.

"e;The essential reappraisal of this seminal event in twentieth-century naval history .

This oral history shares stories of Kentucky nurses-from frontier births to emergency rooms and from the early twentieth-century to the present day.

The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice.

"e;An equally meticulous and lucid account"e; of the controversy that preceded the United States' declaration of war in April 1917 (Historynet).

"e;The book lets us see the human side of physicians-the humorous, the heartwarming-the tradition of health care in Kentucky.

Most towns did not have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception.

In an educational era defined by large school campuses and overcrowded classrooms, it is easy to overlook the era of one-room schools, when teachers filled every role, including janitor, and provided a familylike atmosphere in which children also learned from one another.

Most towns did not have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception.

';A well-founded and presented description of the integral role that psychoactive substances played in ancient societies.

Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W.

William Harvey's revolutionary book on the circulatory system, published in Latin in 1628, demonstrated for the first time how the heart pumps blood through the body.

In the nineteenth century, more than a third of American hospitals were established and run by women with religious vocations.

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies.

A compassionate, honest, and illuminating look at the dying process .

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born-most of them before the age of five.

Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "e;Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick .

All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as 'simply' folklore, of no relevance to medical science.

Two doctors offer a guide for terminal patients to help them take control of their final days and die with dignity.

Officially founded in 1819, the Montreal General Hospital is recognized as a pioneering institution in North America for the many discoveries in medical research made there and for its early association with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University - the first medical school in Canada.

In 1934 Wilder Penfield's vision of an establishment dedicated to the relief of sickness and pain and the study of neurology led to the creation of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

Twelve contributors highlight the various aspects of the school's development and the unique opportunities it offers.

Assembling scholars from nursing, women's studies, geography, native studies, and history, this volume looks at the experience of nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador, northern Saskatchewan, northern British Columbia, and the Arctic and features essays on topics such as Mennonite midwives in Western Canada, missionary nurses, and Aboriginal nursing assistants in the Yukon.

The untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru.

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.

Colonel G.

A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

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.

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.

The history of universal hospitalization and its gradual development into medicare.

The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy.

The untold story of a Canadian pioneer in genetics, undergraduate science education, and the establishment of Medicare.

The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.

An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.

What was it like to be young and sick in the past?

Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian.

Tracing the influence of popular political and social movements of the time, including the Mental Hygiene, Arts and Crafts, and Settlement House movements, Judith Friedland tells the stories of pioneering women in the field and describes how they established professional associations, workshops, and educational programs.

Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian.