History Of Medicine

Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and cop...

Twelve contributors highlight the various aspects of the school's development and the unique opportunities it offers. The first new medical school ...

Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of ...

The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of...

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the...

In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 medical consultation...

Expertly designed with striking photography and specially curated archival images, 500 Years of the Royal College of Physicians shows the developme...

The tale of William Harvey's momentous discovery - that the blood vessels form a closed system, carrying blood pumped rapidly around the body by th...

A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, ...

Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infec...

This textbook is a concise history of public health, focusing on key moments, discoveries, events, and people. Written in narrative format, 15 chro...

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, ...

This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan ...

A riveting account of the medical sleuthing that led to the discovery of Lyme disease In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A...

When scientists proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race spun into action. But the sprint to develop an AIDS vaccine now more closely re...

How is medicine doing at the end of the twentieth century? While there has been no end of studies of our health care system and proposals for chang...

The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the Am...

John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victori...

"What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing" is the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine fro...

In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this dia...

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023 'Important and ambitious' Observer, Book of...

Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can't...

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"What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing" is the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine fro...

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Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from ...

Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and geneti...

Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from ...

Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to gov...

The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of...

Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his o...

As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth,...

In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizen...

The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of...