History of medicine

The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication is a comprehensive analysis of spatial theory and the practical methods used to prevent the geographical spread of communicable diseases in humans.

The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication is a comprehensive analysis of spatial theory and the practical methods used to prevent the geographical spread of communicable diseases in humans.

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

The remarkable career of Galen of Pergamum (A.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

Current understanding of neurological disease has been evolving over the past 150 years.

Current understanding of neurological disease has been evolving over the past 150 years.

In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) is the eccentric, hot-tempered, sword-cane-wielding, nineteenth-century British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, developed a theory and language of invariants that then died spectacularly in the 1890s as a result of David Hilbert's groundbreaking, `modern' techniques.

A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11.

A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11.

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history.

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history.

We are living in a stressful world, yet despite our familiarity with the notion, stress remains an elusive concept.

In 1666 Valentine Greatrakes achieved brief but widespread fame as a miracle healer.

Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century.

Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century.

On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later renamed Echocardiogram.

On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later renamed Echocardiogram.

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations.

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations.

Depression is an experience known to millions.

Depression is an experience known to millions.

Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain.

24 hours to save the NHS.

24 hours to save the NHS.

The Sick Child in Early Modern England is a powerful exploration of the treatment, perception, and experience of illness in childhood, from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany explores and analyses the experience of illness in German society under National Socialism.

Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers.

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.

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed.

Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization.

Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome.

This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.

Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all.

For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata.

Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world.

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine.

Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was established.

According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis.

The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves.

The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body.

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.

Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe.

Cholera is a frightening disease.

Why do we still have nits?

Just how much good has medicine done over the years?

An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it.

Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the unwary and the foolish when it comes to the matter of food and health.