Medical History category: 1391 books
A Country Doctor's Journal
Amazing Stories from Incredible Situations
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Join Dr. Roger MacDonald as he makes rural house calls, responds to unique medical emergencies and experiences heartbreaking tragedies. Share his triumphs and trials as he chronicles 46 years of medical practice in locations ranging from the wild northwoods to idyllic farm country. The collection...
Under the Knife
A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations—from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.
From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his...
Bad Medicine
Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this fascinating...
by Anne Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.' Paracelsus (1493-1541) For thousands of years, people have sought ways to overcome the diseases and...
Doctors Without Borders
Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This study of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) casts new light on the organization’s founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its "without borders" transnational vision.
Pioneering medical sociologist Renée C....
Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health activities...
In the Kingdom of the Sick
A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live...
The Medical Book
From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses...
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession...
Demons
Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women. Debates about the classification of cannabis continue, while major public health campaigns seek to reduce and ultimately eliminate smoking through health warnings and legislation. But the history of public health is not a simple one of changing...
The Inevitable Hour
A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine’s imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional attention and resources gradually were diverted...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the...
Melancholia
The Western Malady
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history which can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the...
Bittersweet
Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. The drug produced astonishing results, rescuing children and adults from the deadly grip of diabetes. But as Chris Feudtner demonstrates, the subsequent transformation of the disease from a fatal condition...