History of medicine

The development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.

“Antipsychiatry,” Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s.

The history of an unnatural disaster—drug overdose—and the emergence of naloxone as a social and technological solution.

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.

This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance.

The life of Vesalius, the foremost pioneer of modern anatomy, has never before been told in full.

For thousands of years boys known as "e;bleeders"e; faced an early, painful death from hemophilia.

As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and science of transmissible diseases.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV.

From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city.

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Beginning in the 1960s, second-wave feminism inspired and influenced dramatic changes in the nursing profession.

What do emotions actually do?

Angesichts der Schwierigkeit, neue Fachkräfte zu gewinnen, sind die Rolle und der Wert der Krankenpflege heutzutage Inhalt zahlreicher Diskussionen.

Revealing the forgotten ideas and philosophy behind early naturopathic osteopathy, Shirley Murray Strachan presents a reoriented historical view of Thomas Ambrose Bowen and his work, breaking from the prevailing twentieth-century legitimation narrative of mainstream chiropractic and osteopathy and exploring the contributions and practices of Australia's early cosmopolitan naturopathic osteopathy pioneers FG Roberts and Maurice Blackmore.

In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe.

Narrative Medicine: New and Selected Essays, by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, contains the thoughtful curation of the authors best work alongside new contributions.

The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or.

Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology.

After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present.

For thousands of years boys known as "e;bleeders"e; faced an early, painful death from hemophilia.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science communicator Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history.

Learn about astonishing medical breakthroughs and discoveries in The Medicine Book.

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"e;Beautifully illustrated, detailed and clear, this is a wonderful introduction to human reproduction"e; - Professor Alice RobertsFollow the amazing transformation that occurs as a baby develops from a single cell into a fully formed human body.

Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities.

A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving itWhat are the top regrets of the dying?

DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.

This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras.

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

The last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA.

The Total Hip Replacement was invented by British surgeons after World War Two.

'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Sexual Inversion was the first English medical textbook about homosexuality.

What was the medical marketplace?

Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control.

The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine.

Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated.

How do we picture ourselves dying?

Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years.

This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO.

This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian emigre psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution.

Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science.

The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times.

An exploration of the philosophical foundation of modern medicine which explains why such a medicine possesses the characteristics it does and where precisely its strengths as well as its weaknesses lie.

The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues.