Medical History category: 1391 books
Classical Genetic Research and its Legacy
The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics. An accompanying volume - From Molecular Genetics to Genomics - covers the history of molecular genetics and genomics.
The...
by John B. West
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. It provides a first-hand chronicle of the advancements made in respiratory physiology starting with Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology. The volume covers every aspect of the evolution...
Nature Cures
The History of Alternative Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures, the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream medicine...
Confronting Contagion
Our Evolving Understanding of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Throughout history, humankind's working theories regarding the cause of infectious disease have shifted drastically, as cultures developed their philosophic, religious, and scientific beliefs. Plagues that were originally attributed to the wrath of the gods were later described as having nothing to...
Private Aid, Political Activism
American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936–1949
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book explores American medical relief to Spain and China in the 1930s and 1940s as responses to the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although serving vastly different peoples in strikingly distant landscapes, the three aid organizations focused on here illustrate a transition...
Body and City
Histories of Urban Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A provocative survey of new research in the history of urban public health, Body and City links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It challenges older methodologies, offering new insights into the significance of cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well as medical, scientific and official interventions...
Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
The Biography of a Tormented Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London...
The Royal Art of Poison
Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
One of Washington Independent Review of Books' 50 Favorite Books of 2018 • A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018
"Morbidly witty." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
"You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." —Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books...
Madness in Civilization
A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens,...
Patient H.M.
A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless pursuit...
Asylum Doctor
James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
During the early twentieth century thousands of Americans died of pellagra before the cause—vitamin B3 deficiency—was identified. Credit for ending the scourge is usually given to Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the U.S. Public Health Service, who proved the case for dietary deficiency during 1914−1915...
Bodysnatchers
Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The grim history of England’s bodysnatching trade: “Lennox’s thorough exploration is riveting” (Naomi Clifford, author of The Disappearance of Maria Glenn).
From the string of murders committed by Burke and Hare, a pair of ghouls who are still the stuff of pop culture legend, to the lesser-known...
Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence
The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The epicentre of the Muslim universe, Mecca attracts hundreds of thousands of believers every year. Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence studies the organization and meanings of the Haj from India during colonial times and analyses it from political, commercial, and medical perspectives between 1860,...