Medical History category: 1391 books
Sigmund Freud
Der Arzt der Moderne
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Kaum jemand hat ein ganzes Zeitalter durch sein Denken so tiefgreifend verändert wie Sigmund Freud. Nach Freud träumen und lieben, denken und phantasieren wir anders. Diese grandiose Biographie schildert Freuds Leben und die Entwicklung der Psychoanalyse als großen Roman des Geistes.
Wien im sinkenden...
Mano Nera
Esperimenti medici e resistenza nei lager nazisti
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Con l’invasione della Francia da parte dell’esercito di Hitler, in Alsazia vengono aperti due lager: Schirmeck e Natzweiler. Proprio lì, un medico virologo, il dottor Eugen Haagen, praticherà esperimenti medici utilizzando gli internati come cavie, alla ricerca di un vaccino contro il tifo,...
Close to the Sun
The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R.
Stuart Jamieson has lived...
L'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris en juillet et en août 1830
Histoire de ce qui s'est passé dans cet hopital pendant et après les trois grandes journées, suivie de détails sur le nombre, la gravité des blessures et les circonstances qui les ont rendues fatales
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Par Prosper Ménière, docteur en médecine de la faculté de Paris, ancien chirurgien interne des hopitaux et hospices civils de la même ville.Extrait : "Tant d'intérêt se rattache aux glorieux évènements dont nous venons d'être témoins, les malheurs individuels qui en ont été la suite ont...
by Jean Désy
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Je dédie ce recueil aux étudiants en médecine que j’ai eu le bonheur de côtoyer depuis une quinzaine d’années. J’aime passionnément leur enseigner. Quel talent et quelle intelligence chez ces êtres neufs qui avancent, qui sont allumés, qui «étincellent » dans l’existence, pour qui...
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and...
by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
"A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle Times
When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port...
America's Bitter Pill
Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in...
by Paul Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort.”-Financial Times
The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos
In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction...
Fever Season
The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis,...
Working Cures
Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.
Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view...
by Stephen Eaton Hume
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.
Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources.
Volume 12 related the founding...
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A small cadre of scientists-collaborators and competitors-are determined to develop a vaccine for malaria-a feat most tropical disease experts have long considered impossible. Skepticism, doubt, and a host of logistical and financial obstacles dog their quest. Success may ultimately elude them. Why,...