Medical History category: 1391 books
The politics of vaccination
A global history
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in...
The Thalidomide Catastrophe
How it happened, who was responsible and why the search for justice continues after more than six decades.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
“This momentous book is the first comprehensive history of thalidomide…
It demonstrates how many thousands of victims could have been spared very late in the day if Chemie Grunenthal had taken any notice of the early alarms: … [It] carries conviction by its scientific rigour, and the clarity...
The English System
Quarantine, immigration and the making of a Port Sanitary zone
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During the later nineteenth century, British public health officials transformed the medieval quarantine system into a novel ‘English...
Destigmatising mental illness?
Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870–1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations...
Preventing Mental Illness
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and...
As the World Ages
Rethinking a Demographic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
People are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations as well. In response, many policy makers and scholars are preparing for a global crisis of aging. But for too long, Western experts have...
Adversity the Spur
The History of Physiotherapy Education at Oswestry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
One of the oldest schools of physiotherapy in the United Kingdom that now operates from a university base (at Keele University) is the one founded at Baschurch in Shropshire in 1909 by Dame Agnes Hunt. She was a charismatic person who defied family, social convention and significant physical disability...
1918. L'influenza spagnola
L'epidemia che cambiò il mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Può una pandemia cambiare il mondo? Nel 1918 è successo. L'influenza spagnola uccide in soli due anni milioni di persone, di cui la maggior parte sono giovani tra i 18 e i 29 anni. Tra le vittime ci sono anche artisti e letterati: da Guillaume Apollinaire a Egon Schiele, da Max Weber a Katherine...
by Edward Lyman Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The Soldier's Foot and the Military Shoe is a fascinating and informative treatise on the importance of footwear for soldiers and military personnel, with chapters on preventing and treating related injuries, foot anatomy, characteristics required for a military boot, caring for and maintaining the...
Gabinete de curiosidades médicas de la Antigüedad
Historias sorprendentes de las artes curativas de Grecia y Roma
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2017
J.C. McKeown, profesor de la Universidad de Wisconsin, que nos fascinó con sus gabinetes de curiosidades romanas y griegas, nos transporta ahora al singular mundo de las ideas y las prácticas médicas de la Antigüedad. Nos adentramos así, a través de una amena secuencia de hechos, anécdotas...
Beethoven's Hair
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great...
by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their...
by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own...
by Thomas H. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Much of the improved survival rate from heart attack can be traced to Eugene Braunwald's work. He proved that myocardial infarction was an hours-long dynamic process which could be altered by treatment. Thomas H. Lee tells the life story of a physician whose activist approach transformed not just cardiology but the culture of American medicine.