History Of Medicine

Between Flesh and Steel traces the development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, making it the most comprehens...

In the late 19th century, the so-called German Method, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At t...

Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase medieval medicine sounds ...

Tony Seed, Gilbert Thompson, Jackie Downs and John MacDermot at the book's launch in LondonThis book brings together in one volume fifteen Nobel P...

This volume continues the Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days series which publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in ...

A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a...

The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical cultureIn the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leadin...

In 1898, female doctors were a rare species. But, in that year, not one but two young female doctors, Helen Boyle and Mabel Jones, arrived in Hove ...

Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. W...

The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers ...

When Ashe County Memorial Hospital opened in November 1941, it was the realization of a dream for the poor, sparsely populated county in the mou...

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's...

Crime scene investigation-or CSI-has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic o...

The chronological entries of this book provide a record of the impact upon human culture of epidemic illness and death throughout history. From the...