History of medicine

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

Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe.

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.

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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.

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

From ancient herbal remedies to modern drugs, the field of medicine has evolved dramatically over many centuries.

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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.

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.

This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike.

Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries.

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home.

The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next year) by a public health campaign.

This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day.

A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day.

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry.

In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care.

Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions.

Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century.

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification.

As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization.

Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions.

An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century.