Medical History category: 1391 books
Into Africa
A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
*Winner of the 2016 Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing
Awarded first place in the 2016 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in the History and Public Policy category*
The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth...
by Laurence B. McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 's, research assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi cal Branch...
History of Medicine, Second Edition
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly...
Medical Monopoly
Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized from the medical community. In the decades following...
A History of Haematology
From Herodotus to HIV
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Blood has long been an object of intrigue for many of the world's philosophers and physicians, and references to it have existed since the earliest studies of human anatomy. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, whose writings 500 years before the birth of Christ drew on stories collected during his widespread...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book provides a distinctive account of military medical service activities in India and Burma during World War II. This valuable information—particularly the lessons learned concerning jungle operations, line...
Physick and the family
Health, medicine and care in Wales, 1600–1750
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. Newly available in paperback, this first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material. Using numerous approaches...
Medical History of Mankind
How Medicine Is Changing Life on the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The book reveals a new look at medicine and Health Care System as a factor that significantly influences the history of mankind as a species. Considering the well-known facts from a different angle, systematically filed material clearly and simply traced the history of mankind from a medical point...
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
A history of medical care 1941–1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring...
by Adrian M. K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born photographer, William N Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Röntgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of their findings were overlooked, and the formal discovery...
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism
Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2003
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era—when none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had access to a titled physician, pharmacist, or midwife—to the 1940s, when the figure of the qualified medical doctor was part...
A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts
From Byzantium to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Useful as it was - and will continue to be – Diels’ catalogue omitted authors and works, misidentified manuscripts,...
Fit to Practice
Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven with the institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory...
Die historische Entwicklung psychischer Krankheitsdeutungen
Am Beispiel der Hysterie
Language: German
Release Date: July 19, 2009
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Medizin - Geschichte, Note: 2,0, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Medizingeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The paper presents historical milestones focusing on conceptions of hysteria from the...