Medical History category: 1391 books
Health of the Seventh Cavalry
A Medical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post–Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research...
Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
A Life of John Snow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing fresh information about...
by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, José Pardo-Tomás
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own...
Locating the Medical
Explorations in South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first...
Medicine in First World War Europe
Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services....
Doctors of Empire
Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes. What is less well known is that Meiji Japan adopted German medicine as its official model in 1869. In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical...
A Family History of Illness
Memory as Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, �Do you have a family history of illness?��a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family�s medical past....
Chloroform
The Quest for Oblivion
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Right up until the 19th century, physicians and philosophers regarded sleep as a state of near-oblivion in which there was no mental activity, a kind of halfway stage between wakefulness and death. For the Victorians, therefore, when anaesthesia was first practised, it was commonly seen as traumatic—for...
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet
Burt Green Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve...
by F. González-Crussi
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries,...
by Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Charles E. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine.
Covering the broad sweep of discoveries...
Out in the Rural
A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most...
A Social History of Medicine
Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A Social History of Medicine traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution right through to the twentieth century.
Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patients and practitioners over this period, exploring the impact...
Nature's Path
A History of Naturopathic Healing in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
An alternative medical system emphasizing prevention through healthy living, positive mind-body-spirit strength, and therapeutics to enhance the body’s innate healing processes, naturopathy has gained legitimacy in recent years. In Nature’s Path—the first comprehensive book to examine the complex...