Medicine: General Issues

INTERNET OF MEDICAL THINGS (IOMT) Providing an essential addition to the reference material available in the field of IoMT, this timely publication...

A global view of health offers a richer understanding of ways of measuring, improving and sustaining health both in individual national settings an...

Drawing on the ethos, practices and economics of human focused initiatives such as Shared Lives, this book outlines a new model for public services...

Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their h...

Health promotion is a key mechanism in tackling the foremost health challenges faced by developing and developed nations. Covering key concepts, th...

For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the viru...

Using a straightforward systems approach, Turnock’s Public Health: What It Is and How It Works explores the inner workings of the complex, modern U...

Founded in 1934 as a small community hospital – open to all patients, regardless of race, religion, language, or ethnic background – Montreal's Jew...

'One of the most beautiful books you will ever read' Kate Mosse In this powerful memoir, Joanna Cannon tells her story as a junior doctor in visce...

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.‘Brave, compa...

Today we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment for health care. The U.S. health care system is designed to be reactive instead o...

Captivating stories of how a young doctor's first year of medical practice in the Smoky Mountains shaped his practice of life and faith.The little ...

Examining the ideas and attitudes that encourage scientists to experiment on living creatures, what their justifications are, and how these have ch...

Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have raised the horrific possibility that rogue states, labor...

This book is a profound but practical testament to the healing power of balanced living and shows how Ayurveda's ancient principles of health can h...

Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native p...

In 1850, a group of reformist male Quaker physicians and allies founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training...

Moshe ben Maimon, or Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), remains one of the most celebrated rabbis in this history of Judaism; his numerous writings incl...

The search for effective immunization against pneumonia was a principal avenue of investigation before the advent of The search for effective immun...

Like other dangerous but pleasurable activities, such as downhill skiing and mountain climbing, engaging in unprotected sex implicitly involves the...

Any woman who has been examined by a gynecologist could tell Descartes a thing or two about the mind/body problem. Is her body an object? Is it the...

Did America try to steal Soviet "cancer secrets"? And how could a cancer cure turn into a "biological atomic bomb"? Nikolai Krementsov's compelling...

We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls i...

In this book, based almost exclusively on original source material, Dr. Blake takes a detailed look at the public health history of the town of Bos...

A mere "symbol" of medicine--the sugar pill, saline injection, doctor in a white lab coat--the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces "real" result...

This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined “fetal politics” and the contempo...

A landmark work, this history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in...

Medicine in the twenty-first century will be very different from the medicine of today; scientific, technological, economic, and ethical conditions...

Since the late 1980s the international relief community has seen its resources and personnel stressed beyond capacity by humanitarian crises--large...

This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined “fetal politics” and the contempo...

When we stop at the pharmacy to pick up our Prozac, are we simply buying a drug? Or are we buying into a disease as well? The first complete accoun...

The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we m...

Most public controversies about the effects of chemicals on human health revolve around the risk of cancer—hardly surprising, considering that it i...

Americans are understandably concerned about the runaway costs of medical care and the fact that one citizen out of seven is without health insuran...