Medical History category: 1391 books
by Mark Benton
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Pittsburgh natives have recognized Dixmont State Hospital by its towering boiler house smokestack that stood prominently along busy Route 65. It has been a topic of curiosity, urban exploration, ghost hunts, and historical research; but prior to its closing in 1984, Dixmont State Hospital stood as a...
by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.
Based...
Guthrie
100 Years of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
When Dr. Donald Guthrie arrived in Sayre in 1910, it was home to the third-largest railroad repair shop in the world. A small hospital, the first in the region, had opened 25 years earlier to care for those injured in this dangerous work. Fresh from surgical training at the Mayo Clinic, Guthrie brought...
Circuit Riders for Mental Health
The Hogg Foundation in Twentieth-Century Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Circuit Riders for Mental Health explores for the first time the transformation of popular understandings of mental health, the reform of scandal-ridden hospitals and institutions, the emergence of community mental health services, and the extension of mental health services to minority populations...
"Our Gallant Doctor"
Enigma and Tragedy: Surgeon-Lieutenant George Hendry and HMCS Ottawa, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
During the Battle of the Atlantic, Dr. George Hendry had just finished performing two major surgical operations on board the destroyer HMCS Ottawa when his ship was ambushed by 13 German U-boats. Canadian warships like Ottawa had inadequate radar sets that were incapable of detecting submarines approaching...
Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940
Contagions of Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession
Adopting and Adapting Western Influences
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It discusses...
by Kathleen Brockway
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
The booming job market and beautifully designed city of Baltimore attracted many families and individuals to the area in the 19th century. Several of these transplants would become prominent figures in the Deaf community. George W. Veditz, an early American Sign Language filmmaker and former president...
What Would Florence Do?
A Guide for New Nurse Managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
ANA’s What Would Florence Do? A Guide for New Nurse Managers, is designed to help nurses excel in their management roles, regardless of tenure. This publication is an excellent resource that all CNOs or health care HR professionals can provide to their new and existing nurse management staff as...
Locating Health
Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented – each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields.
by Anthony Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2009
This is a balanced but critical book. No prior knowledge of homeopathy is assumed, but this doesn't mean that the book is meant only for beginners. Even if you have read a good deal about homeopathy previously you may, I believe, find that you view it in a different light after you have finished....
Veiled Warriors
Allied Nurses of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology....
The Politics of Healing
Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Fuckology
Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
One of the twentieth century’s most controversial sexologists—or “fuckologists,” to use his own memorable term—John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s,...