History Of Medicine

Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness...

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the ...

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the v...

This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than menand lays out how the system must change...

Examines the theoretical and practical outlook of forensic physicians in Imperial Russia, from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, arguing that t...

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand s...

This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of healthcare policy from high income states in Europe to low-income countri...

This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of healthcare policy from high income states in Europe to low-income countri...

Recommended by Bill Gates and included in GatesNotes Elaborating on the science as well as the business behind the fight against cystic fibrosis, T...

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and rel...

Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Many ...

The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial...

This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With...

An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.Co...

Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through the ages. Entertaining and in...

This book provides a broad overview of diagnostic pathology, integrating historical perspectives with the current practice of diagnostic pathology ...