History of medicine

A remarkable account of the kidney and the scientific, medical, and health evolution tied to our understanding of it.

The Situation - A Radical Journey Thru Sisterhood is an intimate portrayal of two sisters, Carolyn and Lila, whose lives are deeply intertwined over forty years.

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population.

A scientific and artistic triumph, Gray's Anatomy is one of the most iconic anatomical texts ever to be printed.

Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects.

This is the first book in English to analyse the medical category of 'hermaphroditism' in Spain over the period 1850-1960.

Extrait : "Le Conseil supérieur de l'instruction publique, présidé par le Ministre, donne son avis sur les programmes, méthodes d'enseignement, modes d'examens, règlements administratifs et disciplinaires relatifs aux écoles publiques, le tarif des droits d'inscription d'examen et de diplôme à percevoir dans les établissements d'enseignement supérieur, chargés de la collation des grades, ainsi que les conditions d'âge pour l'admission aux grades.

DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.

Esta historia de la Facultat de Medicina de Valencia es el resultado de la colaboración de una veintena de historiadores de la Universitat de València, la Universidad Miguel Hernández, la Universidad Católica de Valencia y varios institutos del CSIC.

In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes anaesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?

Extrait : "Parmi les maladies, il en est qui sont aussi individuelles que les plaies et les fractures, et qui se remarquent dans tous les temps et dans tous les lieux ; il en d'autres qui sont spéciales à certaines contrées, sans qu'il soit possible d'expliquer par quel concours de circonstances locales elles naissent dans tel district, et pourquoi elles n'en sortent pas.

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War .

What was mothering like in the past?

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

In The Magic of Normal: Love, Hope and Beyond, Dr.

To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous.

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer.

An essential history of a taste that shaped the world.

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.

Unraveling the enigma of the human heart - a captivating journey through medical history and personal discoveryFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul.

#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, premio Nobel de Medicina y el mayor genio científico español de todos los tiempos, es retratado por fin en toda su complejidad en esta emocionante biografía.

Ein etwas anderes Buch zum Thema, geschrieben von Stein Husebø - dem international bekannten Arzt, Autor und Publizisten.

Wie weit haben sich deutsche Homöopathen und ihr Berufsverband dem NS-Regime angepasst?

To my knowledge.

Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs – der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Buch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie.

To my knowledge.

Desde siempre ha habido médicos que han sido también grandes pensadores: Copérnico, Paracelso, Chéjov o, más recientemente, Oliver Sacks, han entendido que la enfermedad no sólo concierne al cuerpo, sino también al espíritu.

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.

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.

24 hours to save the NHS.

In Psychiatry in Indiana: The First 175 Years, authors Philip M.

Im The Living ProofTHERE IS NO HIV, The Rainbow Warrior, Exposing The Truth About HIV Antibody Testing and the Metaphysics of Self-Healing Through Chakra and Kundalini Awareness is the authors personal story of healing and a journey toward spiritual awakening having transcended the HIV Debacle and Crisis.

From its founding 1736, Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor, elderly, and dying.

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain.

Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in historya transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine.

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business.

Mr Lewisham, a young and highly ambitious schoolmaster, falls in love with Ethel Henderson, a young lady visiting his Sussex village.

"La ENFERMEDAD que CURA".