Medical History category: 1391 books
Aging Bones
A Short History of Osteoporosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older...
by Christian W. McMillen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic...
Medicine and the Saints
Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise,...
Vaccine Nation
America's Changing Relationship with Immunization
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American children...
by Tom Carnwath, Ian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Heroin is a drug that myths are made of. Whether smuggled in the stomach of a camel or used as the ultimate symbol of lifestyle chic, no drug has been more argued over and legislated against, no drug has been more subject to misinformation and moral panic.
Heroin Century sets the record straight....
No One Was Turned Away
The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1999
No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of public institutions has meant...
by Professor Marcos Cueto, Professor Steven Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the development...
Ill Composed
Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical...
by Byron Oberst M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book describes the many diverse experiences of a very active pediatrician from 1943 to 1988. This story begins when he was in medical school in 1943 and ends with his retirement thirty-seven years later in 1988.
It includes post retirement stints as a Medical Director for a medical software...
Diagnosing Empire
Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and the Middle East. Hassan sets the scene by offering examples from Victorian novels that...
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru
Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2010
By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry, and it had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing...
Contesting Medical Confidentiality
Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy. In this age of health databases and increasing connectedness, however, the confidentiality of patient information is rapidly...
Cesarean Section
An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously—from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5–10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely...
Lovers and Livers
Disease Concepts in History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it?
In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct afflictions – one...