Medicine: General Issues

It is an accepted convention that non-health sector policies and strategies impact on population health. An instrument and approach, Health Impact ...

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 ...

Searching the internet for health information or using health apps on mobile devices has become part of our daily routine, yet can be just as disem...

This basic legal guide contains the extensive information respiratory therapists need to know about the court system, lawyers, law, and litigation....

New technologies are transforming healthcare work and changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. As artificial intelligence systems,...

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 study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks...

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...

Dorothea Dix was the most politically engaged woman of her generation, which was itself a remarkable tapestry of activists. An influential lobbyist...

A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, ...

Den Wechseljahren begegnet jede Frau mit gehörigem Respekt. Dieses Buch beschreibt Fakten, die Ihnen zu mehr Verständnis für sich und für Ihren wun...

Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infec...

Over the last fifty years, British patients have been transformed into consumers. This book considers how and why the figure of the patient-consume...

This textbook is a concise history of public health, focusing on key moments, discoveries, events, and people. Written in narrative format, 15 chro...

New technologies are transforming healthcare work and changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. As artificial intelligence systems,...

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, ...

In this engagingly written book Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic story of women’s long struggle to become physicians. Focusing both on internatio...

How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embar...

A time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful.For more than ...

This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan ...

What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health...

Disease processes among American Indians and Alaska Natives often have distinct manifestations that need to be considered by clinicians and health ...

In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize...

“I’m covered—why should I foot the bill for somebody who isn’t?”This question, unspoken but simmering at the center of the debate over universal he...

A riveting account of the medical sleuthing that led to the discovery of Lyme disease In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A...

Runaway medical costs, long-term care, market competition, for-profit medicine, nursing shortages—these are but a few of the issues that swirl arou...

Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, ...

When scientists proved in 1984 that HIV causes AIDS, a vaccine race spun into action. But the sprint to develop an AIDS vaccine now more closely re...