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Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training...

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female and male theorists from across the globe, it explores various issues including chronic illness, counselling and the rising problems of obesity.

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with different magnitudes, weights...

Des médecins sont célèbres parce qu’ils se sont illustrés dans leur métier (Hippocrate, Freud, Barnard…) ou dans leurs recherches (Vésale, Harvey, Virchow…). D’autres sont connus en tant que philosophe (Locke), politicien (Clemenceau), révolutionnaire (Marat), musicien (Borodine), écrivain...

When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids...

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point for...

Medico della corte estense e accademico dello Studio modenese, Bernardino Ramazzini vive nella seconda metà del Seicento in un contesto contrassegnato da una prolungata recessione economica. Egli si dimostra visionario quando, pur non rinunciando alla propria attività di medico che cura il paziente,...

Bis in die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gab es keine Ärztinnen. Der Arzt war ein Mann und die akademische Medizin reine Männersache. Der Eintritt der Frauen ins Medizinstudium seit 1850 und ihre Etablierung in der Arztpraxis werden hier ländervergleichend dargestellt. Das Frauenstudium der Medizin...

Gunshot wounds consist of injuries from missiles projected by the force of explosion. As the name implies, this class of wounds is ordinarily restricted to injuries resulting from fire-arms; but it should be remembered that wounds possessing the same leading characteristics may result from objects...

È opinione ancora purtroppo diffusa che il cristianesimo sia stato un ostacolo al progresso delle scienze, compresa quella medica. Questo ebook, scritto da un medico, ci rivela un volto diverso della storia della medicina, che non è soltanto la storia di invenzioni, di scoperte, di progressi scientifici....

Excerpt: "No matter how complex the form of propagation may appear, the fundamental principle which underlies all forms is a process of cell-division. It is therefore evident that in order to understand propagation and just what is implied in the act we must make a closer analysis of cell-division,...

Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a separation of midwifery from modern medicine, in Germany new standards of health care were embraced. Fallwell’s study explores this transition and sets it in its wider historical context.

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance...

In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather,...