History of medicine

Arthur Benton has long been recognized as a distinguished researcher, an influential educator, and a gifted writer.

Neurology abounds with eponyms--Babinski's sign, Guillain-Barre' syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, etc.

The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States.

This book traces the life and scientific career of Dr.

On March 2, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (a division of the Public Health Service) made headlines by releasing new cancer pain management guidelines.

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology.

The internationally acclaimed story of Hannah's Heirs now resumes in this updated paperback edition with the discovery in June, 1995 of Hannah's gene--now known to account for the majority of mutations causing early onset familial Alzheimer's disease--and the equally important identification of the major genetic risk factor rendering increased susceptibility to the more frequently occurring late-onset Alzheimer's.

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955.

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been.

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been.

The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind.

The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind.

The four contributors to this volume examine the eugenics movements in Germany, France, Brazil, and the Soviet Union, and describe how geneticists and physicians participated in the development of policies concerning the improvement of hereditary qualities in humans.

Written by eminent education scholar Thomas Neville Bonner, Becoming A Physician is a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of Western medical education.

In this extensively researched history of medical schools, William Rothstein, a leading historian of American medicine, traces the formation of the medical school from its origin as a source of medical lectures to its current status as a center of undergraduate and graduate medical education, biomedical research, and specialized patient care.

Every day, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

Every day, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good history.

This comprehensive volume completes Frederic Holmes' notable and detailed biography of Hans Krebs, from the investigator's early development through the major phase of his groundbreaking investigation, which lay the foundations upon which the modern structure of intermediary metabolism is built.

Making a Place for Ourselves examines an important but not widely chronicled event at the intersection of African-American history and American medical history--the black hospital movement.

William Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients.

How did the affliction we now know as insanity move from a religious phenomenon to a medical one?

Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests.

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From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies.

No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City.

In this riveting narrative, Barron H.

Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery.

This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology.

Plague in the Early Modern World, now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.

Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.

Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history.

Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history.

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence.

For all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible enemy - viruses.

For all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible enemy - viruses.

John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was a preeminent British neurologist who is widely recognized today as one of the leading founders of modern clinical neurology and neuroscience.

John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was a preeminent British neurologist who is widely recognized today as one of the leading founders of modern clinical neurology and neuroscience.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes.

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain.

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain.

"e;Why I Became an Occupational Physician"e; and Other Occupational Health Stories brings together an edited collection of the short articles published in the journal Occupational Medicine between 2002 and 2018.

"e;Why I Became an Occupational Physician"e; and Other Occupational Health Stories brings together an edited collection of the short articles published in the journal Occupational Medicine between 2002 and 2018.

Well into the 20th century, one in four newborns failed to survive their first year of life.

Well into the 20th century, one in four newborns failed to survive their first year of life.