Medical History category: 1391 books
HIV in China
Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The result of collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, this unique chronicle maps some of the most important social, political, and cultural characteristics of the HIV epidemic in China. Demonstrating that the epidemic was propelled by three main...
Medicine and Colonialism
Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.
Romania and the European Union
How the weak vanquished the strong
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
According to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial...
Baby Trouble in the Last Best West
Making New People in Alberta, 1905–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Reproductionis the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.
Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social...
by Graeme Gooday, Karen Sayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing status of ‘hard of hearing’ people during the nineteenth century as categorized among diverse and changing categories of ‘deafness’....
Framing the moron
The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within the course of the eugenic movement (1900–30). Such social control efforts are easier to understand when...
An Interventional Radiology Odyssey
The Story of My Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
In this autobiography, Josef Rösch, a leading pioneer in interventional radiology from its inception to the present, documents his life and discusses important aspects of his work, focusing especially on those procedures that he developed or improved and that were popularized by his lectures and...
Flesh and Blood
Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2008
Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning, though, there was simply a problem: surgeons...
by Jacques Balthazart, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
In this fascinating book, Jacques Balthazart presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans. Using scientific studies published over the last few decades, he argues that sexual orientation,...
Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment
Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of the male body.
Quick Boil Some Water
The Story of Childbirth in our Grandmother's Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2007
Childbirth during the war and after years - homes had no phones, few cars and little heating. Many women begin their story with, "I've never told anyone this."
The Care of Older People
England and Japan, A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.
Disabled Children
Contested Caring, 1850–1979
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are "Warrior Athletes," the ultimate athlete. The physical and mental demands imposed by SOF training and missions require appropriate nutritional habits and interventions so that, under the most rigorous conditions, performance is optimized, and health is...