History Of Medicine

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Greats (c. 11931280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for...

Naming the Local uncovers how Koreans domesticated foreign medical novelties on their own terms, while simultaneously modifying the Korea-specific ...

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It ...

Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensiti...

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys complete edition of Hippocrates...

Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and...

Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies - the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. ...

Winner of the 2021 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH)Revolutionizing Womens Healthcare ...

This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botan...

This is a definitive, deeply researched biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) and is the first scholarly biography to be publis...

A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports.American tackle football is an industry like a...

This is the first modern edition of Book X of the Historia Animalium. It argues that the first five chapters are a summary, from the hand of Aristo...

Historians describe the long 19th century as an age of empire, characterized by expansion and industrialization. The period witnessed the evolut...

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical ...

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditionsspanning developments f...

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photo...

Jeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his consta...