History Of Medicine

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

The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy. 36 Steps on the Road to...

What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mo...

The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy. 36 Steps on the Road to...

The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.P. Thompson was a passionate advocate of science education whose...

The contribution of one of the most illustrious investigators of heart disease is revisited and updated with colour images.

Victorian Britain was the world’s industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...

On 25 January 1849, Punch responded to an event that took place in upstate New York with a rhyme about 'excellent Miss Blackwell!'. On that day, El...

For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed...

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new resea...

This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history...

Analysing the SARS crisis to help meet the threat of future pandemics

A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, "Healing the Land and the Nation" traces the relationships between disease, ...

An illuminating study of the complex history of madness.

In 1934 Wilder Penfield's vision of an establishment dedicated to the relief of sickness and pain and the study of neurology led to the creation of...

Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth cen...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries congenital syphilis was a major cause of infant mortality in France but mercury, the preferred treatment...

How patients experienced disability at a famous rehabilitation centre.

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social g...

During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring souther...

When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Doug...

How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system? This book provides some important answers to this...

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

Analysing the SARS crisis to help meet the threat of future pandemics

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social g...

An illuminating study of the complex history of madness.

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, a...

B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and so...

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politic...

This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent...

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, ...