During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown.
This book explores key aspects of scientific reasoning, clinical methodology, and evidence-based practice, using quotes from the lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as a starting point for discussion and in-depth analysis.
This book explores key aspects of scientific reasoning, clinical methodology, and evidence-based practice, using quotes from the lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) as a starting point for discussion and in-depth analysis.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Francoise Dolto (1908-88).
Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle.
This volume offers a new critical edition with facing English translation and a detailed study of the medieval manual of dietetics Occitan Health Advice dating from the 13th century and probably compiled in the milieu of Montpellier's university.
Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infection control.
During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown.
The theme of this book is the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the seventeenth century.
The fascinating and dramatic story of a forgotten, life-saving cure to conquer deadly bacterial infections - bacteriophages - and the remarkable scientists behind themWhen antibiotics started to fail the race to save humanity from deadly antibiotic resistant infections began.
In this exciting book, Issa Iskandar Al-Maalouf takes us on a journey through the roots of medicine since the ancient civilizations of Egypt, passing through the Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, Christians and Muslims, reviewing the development of medicine, its origins and concepts in an interesting manner that highlights the importance of medical study and anatomy.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Francoise Dolto (1908-88).
In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is considerably more complex.
The opening studies in this volume, on the revival of Galenic medicine in Continental Europe, provide the context for its focus - England in the 17th century.
In Prescription for Heterosexuality, Carolyn Herbst Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early Cold War years.
Starting with a brief history of western naval medical care from the ancient Greeks and proceeding to modern times, this book chronicles the evolution of the Navy's first west coast hospital, the Mare Island Naval Hospital, as it grew from a "e;palatial"e; but primitive facility in the 1860s to the Navy's premier amputee center for Marines and sailors returning from the brutal Pacific war.
