Medical History category: 1391 books
Mad Tuscans and Their Families
A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households...
Medicine and the German Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Medicine played an important role in the early secularization and eventual modernization of German Jewish culture. And as both physicians and patients Jews exerted a great influence on the formation of modern medical discourse and practice. This fascinating book investigates the relationship between...
The neurologists
A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.1789–2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
Sympathy and Science
Women Physicians in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina...
A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'
The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types and the radically changing characteristics attributed...
by Nathan Sivin
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China most people were unable to afford a doctor, even in the unlikely case that one lived near their village and was willing to...
Novel Medicine
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to...
Code Green
Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the quality of their nursing care, such as Boston's...
The Loss of Sadness
How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by...
On Hysteria
The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem—and one that, originally, was applied to men as often as to women.
In...
On the Other Hand
Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmatized. In On the Other Hand, Howard I. Kushner traces the impact of left-handedness on human cognition, behavior, culture, and health.
A left-hander...
Gray's Anatomy
With original illustrations by Henry Carter
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Written in the 1850s when its author was a young doctor, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible medical textbook of its time. This compact volume comprises an abridged version of the classic 1860 edition - the last to be published during Gray's lifetime - and the masterly wood-block...
Forensic Medicine in Western Society
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative perspective...
Heredity and Infection
The History of Disease Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the last century. Two scientific revolutions - the bacteriological revolution of the 1890s and the genetic revolution at the start of the twentieth...