En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia.
En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia.
Winner of the 2002 BMA Popular Medicine Book Prize: This is a haunting literary and scientific examination of Alzheimer's disease and the race to find a cure.
From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns.
Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as they are detailed.
Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as they are detailed.
From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present.
Locura y civilización es una obra que reconstruye la significación cultural, médica y social que ha adquirido la locura en distintas civilizaciones a lo largo del tiempo.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present.
From the bestselling author of 'The Queen's Conjuror', comes the story of Nicholas Culpeper - legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and author of the great 'Herbal'.
The number of wounded in the First World War was unprecedented, and inadequate military planning presented the medical and voluntary community with huge and daunting challenges.
For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata.
For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer-Preisträger und Autor des Bestsellers ›Der König aller Krankheiten: Krebs – eine Biographie‹, fragt sich in seinem TED Book, welchen Gesetzen die Medizin gehorcht.
Este volumen nos introduce históricamente en la relación entre medicina y filosofía, detalla la utilidad de una para la otra y analiza los problemas a medio camino entre la ciencia médica y la filosofía, como el concepto de persona, la dialéctica cuerpo-alma, la ética que propone la medicina, la neuroética o la muerte.
"He escrito este libro para mirar de cerca la profesión a la que me dedico y tal vez con la esperanza de despertar el interés del lector, ya que trato temas como la enfermedad y el sufrimiento que, tarde o temprano, nos afectarán a todos.
