History Of Medicine

In the pages of this rich and detailed narrative, whose characters include the field's leading scientists as well as key patients and their familie...

When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, ...

The history of psychiatry concerns efforts to identify, diagnose, and contain or treat these "wild," "mad," or "insane" people. This book starts wi...

This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiolog...

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of pre...

From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generati...

An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Ren...

A pioneer in organ transplantation discusses the amazing advances in the field One of the most spectacular medical advances of the twentieth centur...

Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and th...

One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a disp...

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year—more now than at any other time in h...

One hundred and fifty years after the Black Death killed a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The ...

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518 1593) on the basis of pre...

The story of the revolutionary science that is unraveling the mysteries of mad cow and other fatal brain diseases Discovered and identified as the ...

Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist ...

This riveting book takes the reader around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat p...

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...

A noted medical historian explores the roles played by various intellectual frameworks and trends in the writing of history A collection of ten ess...

In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented heal...