History of medicine

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

What makes a disease real?

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

What makes a disease real?

In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject.

The role of the Colonial Medical Service - the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories - goes to the heart of the British Colonial project.

After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian.

Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of yerberas, or herbalists, as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.

iLong neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.

Long neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.

Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England's relationship to the material world.

Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view.

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.

For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus.

This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present.

In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

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Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination.

From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era-when none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had access to a titled physician, pharmacist, or midwife-to the 1940s, when the figure of the qualified medical doctor was part of everyday life for many of Costa Rica's nearly one million citizens.

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.

The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city.

A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa.

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.

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.

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

A foundational text in Western herbal medicine bridging botany, astrology, and early modern healing practices.

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.

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.

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';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 .