History Of Medicine

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...

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

This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the fou...

Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe’s hospi...

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

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for...

The best introduction to the terrible international impact of the Black Death. Unique, sensational and shocking, this revelatory book provides the...

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormo...

Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid cr...

How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical an...

A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of huma...

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased st...

Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume...

Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) is famous for his contributions to the understanding of epilepsy and for his discoveries of the relationship between th...

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormo...

This book examines nursing's feminist consciousness as the profession has developed and evolved over time. The interrelationship between the status...

Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of ...

Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances. The sheer extent of crossover - medics as relig...

The definitive compilation of the inspiring and educational stories of women in medicine through the ages and around the world.Women in Medicine: A...

Why have cesarean sections become so commonplace in the United States?Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose pr...

Reproductive technology is typically discussed in the future tense. Yet doctors have always treated involuntary childlessness. This book looks at t...

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing...

Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that region The Balti...

An extensively researched account of the ups and downs in the history of uppers Uppers. Crank. Bennies. Dexies. Greenies. Black Beauties. Purple H...

A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States...

This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the st...

From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the s...

Reveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept th...

In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, h...

From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the s...

"Herbals" - collections describing plants used for medicinal purposes - were among the ancient and medieval world's most valued scientific texts, s...

Tracing the influence of popular political and social movements of the time, including the Mental Hygiene, Arts and Crafts, and Settlement House mo...

In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, h...

Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. This first e...

Tracing the influence of popular political and social movements of the time, including the Mental Hygiene, Arts and Crafts, and Settlement House mo...