Medical History category: 1391 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Measuring Manhood
Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American students’ insufficient “hereditary background” for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start.Melissa...
by Steve Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.
by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution...
Triumph of the Heart
The Story of Statins
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Over 25 million people in the U.S. alone have benefited from statins--such drugs as Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, Pravachol, and other cholesterol-lowering medicines--in preventing stroke, heart attack, and other forms of coronary heart disease. But how did these remarkable, life-saving drugs come into...
The Man Who Invented Gender
Engaging the Ideas of John Money
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book is essential reading for scholars of gender studies in both cultural studies and medicine, and for anyone seeking a fuller interpretation of the leading sexologist’s theories and accomplishments.
Our Korea Connection
An Australian couple's amazing story of a calling to rural Korea in the early 70's and its continuing connection to their lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
“I really don’t want to go to Korea! It’s a freezing cold, colourless place where people only wear khaki and fight wars!”
For two, fourth generation Australians in the early 1970’s, the only vision of Korea they had was from recalling newspaper articles about the Korean War in the 1950’s,...
by Byron Lee Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the...
by Gülhan Balsoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience.
by Bernd Gausemeier
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.
by Abraham Noordergraaf
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Blood in Motion is a textbook in Cardiovascular Science. It sets out to introduce, entice and explain the cardiovascular system to the reader using a classical system in teaching anatomy, physiology, general operation and specific systems. It is specifically designed to support the interests of students,...
The Health of Populations
General Theories and Particular Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often dominated by those who deploy rather categorical,...
Health and Citizenship
Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.
Generation
The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Generation is the story of the exciting, largely forgotten decade during the seventeenth century when a group of young scientists-Jan Swammerdam, the son of a Protestant apothecary, Nils Stensen (also known as Steno), a Danish anatomist who first discovered the human tear duct, Reinier de Graaf, the...