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History:A First Person History of Pediatric PsychoendocrinologyISBN: 9780306473692 John Money's career constitutes the foundation of pediatric psychoendocrinology. In this book, he takes a second look at his publications on many different psychoendocrine syndromes (intersexual or hermaphroditic) with respect to sex, gender, amative orientation, and the lovemap (his own designation for an individual's experience of sexuality). His ultimate conclusion is that, from prenatal life onward, demasculinization of development is not synonymous with feminization, nor is defeminization synonymous... Read more at Amazon
A History of MedicineISBN: 9780824740740 Stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this Second Edition explores the events, methodologies, and theories that shaped medical practices in decades past and in modern clinical practice. It highlights practices of civilizations around the world and research of pioneering scientists and physicians who contributed to our current understanding of health and disease. New sections cover preventive and alternative medicine, medical education for women, miasma and contagion theories, the threat of epid... Read more at Amazon
A Social History of MedicineISBN: 9780415200387 Traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution to the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patient and practitioner.... Read more at Amazon
Air, the Environment and Public HealthISBN: 9780521831468 Air, the Environment and Public Health traces the theme of air and health from ancient civilisations to the present day. The author explores the changing conceptions of air and health alongside historical developments in public health, and critically examines contemporary problems-conceptual, scientific, philosophical and ethical - in public health theory and practice.... Read more at Amazon
Ancient Egyptian MedicineISBN: 9780714119069 Considering ancient Egyptian medicine, Dr Nunn reviews original medical papyri and other sources on the subject, including skeletons, mummies and statues. Comparative illustrations show the symptoms in ancient Egyptian and modern patients, and the criteria by which they were diagnosed.... Read more at Amazon
Ancient MedicineISBN: 9780415368483 Available for the first time in paperback, the first substantial, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medicine from early Greece to late Antiquity.... Read more at Amazon
Anglo-Saxon MedicineISBN: 9780521405218 The first book to study Old English medical texts.... Read more at Amazon
Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of StrychnineISBN: 9781420053159 Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of Strychnine presents a history of the chemical substance from its discovery to present times. Dr. John Buckingham fuses his eclectic interests into a mix of original research spanning realms of history, medicine, literature, chemistry, and forensics.... Read more at Amazon
Bodies PoliticISBN: 9781861891655 In this work, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-17th to the 20th century.... Read more at Amazon
Bodily MattersISBN: 9780822334231 Considers the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant subjects.... Read more at Amazon
Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and PurityISBN: 9780199297795 Using first-hand accounts and sources, Clean unfolds the long history of personal hygiene and purity from pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from medieval ascetics to 21st century cosmetics.... Read more at Amazon
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial SpasISBN: 9780822338222 Traces the cultural history of French colonizers, and their ambitions and anxieties, as reflected through highland spas in the French empire. This work illuminates the relationship between indigenous and French colonial therapeutic knowledge as well as the ultimate failure of the spas to make colonialism physically or morally safe for the French.... Read more at Amazon
Devices and DesignsISBN: 9781403986443 Written by the scholars in the history and sociology of medicine, this book focuses on the material cultures of health care. It analyzes how technology has become so central to medicine and how we are coping with the consequences.... Read more at Amazon
Disease and DemocracyISBN: 9780520251472
Disease and DemocracyISBN: 9780520243507 Disease and democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of divergent approaches to the epidemic in the United States and several European nations is a springboard for a wide-ranging and sophisticated historical analysis of public health practices and policies. In addition to his comprehensive presentation of information on approaches to AIDS. Baldwin's authoritative book provides a new perspective on our most enduring politi... Read more at Amazon
Disease and the Modern WorldISBN: 9780745628103 Assuming no prior knowledge of the history of disease. Disease and the Modern World provides an invaluable introduction to one of the richest and most important areas of history. It will be essential reading for all undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the history of disease and medicine, and for anyone interested in how disease has shaped, and been shaped by the modern world.... Read more at Amazon
Encyclopedic Reference of Traditional Chinese MedicineISBN: 9783540428466 This concise reference book on Traditional Chinese Medicine provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of TCM, its basic principles, therapy and medication. More than 5000 well-structured entries are arranged in alphabetical order and cover a wide spectrum. From symptoms and diseases to acupuncture points, to herbal and other drugs used in Chinese medicine the reader can get information on relevant issues. Also included are four-colour images of the most important herbs and medicinal plants that a... Read more at Amazon
EpidemicISBN: 9781905745081 Discusses the science, the history and the future of epidemics. This book shows what epidemics are, how they begin and transmit, the various types they are and what they can cause. It shows the changing world of infectious disease and the possible infections lurking around the corner.... Read more at Amazon
Epidemics and HistoryISBN: 9780300080872 A study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity over the last six centuries. It examines the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, showing how perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time.... Read more at Amazon
Explaining EpidemicsISBN: 9780521395694 A history of medicine in which the author discusses themes that have become visible to the public - deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, the economics of the hospital, and the treatment of AIDS.... Read more at Amazon
Generating Bodies and Gendered SelvesISBN: 9780295986418 Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and the first signs of modern medicine were emerging both in theory and in practice, medical discourse of the body was richly interwoven with cultural concerns.Through close readings of a wide range of English-lang... Read more at Amazon
Gout: The Partrician MaladyISBN: 9780300082746 Gout has been seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius and creativity. It is also believed to protect its sufferers and assure long life. This study investigates the history of gout and offers a perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice and class.... Read more at Amazon
Health, Civilization and the StateISBN: 9780415200363 Health, Civilization and the State examines the problems of public health provision in a historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in a global context, from the ancient world through the medieval and early-modern periods to the modern state. It combines a clear account of the history of health service provision with a discussion of the social, economic and political issues at stake.... Read more at Amazon
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800ISBN: 9780719067372 The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. This volume contains a selection of classical writing and up-to-date research in the field, and extracts from contemporary sources.... Read more at Amazon
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of SexISBN: 9780674001893 This text takes the reader inside the doctor's chamber to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies - when combined with social exigencies - forced peculiar constructions.... Read more at Amazon
History of MedicineISBN: 9780333930700 This brief survey of the history of western medicine refers to scholarly literature and 21st-century issues in health care. Organized conceptually around the major fields of medical endeavour, it shows medical history as a component of social, intellectual and cultural history.... Read more at Amazon
History of the London ClinicISBN: 9781853156793 Presents the history of the London Clinic, from its foundation in 1932 by a group of Harley Street doctors. This title explores the technological, socioeconomic and cultural influences that have mapped and directed the Hospital's course of clinical excellence over the years. It is illustrated with photographs and anecdotes.... Read more at Amazon
Hot and BotheredISBN: 9780674018969 As she traces the medicalization of menopause over the past hundred years, historian Judith Houck challenges some widely held assumptions. Physicians hardly foisted hormones on reluctant female patients; rather, physicians themselves were often reluctant to claim menopause as a medical problem and resisted the widespread use of hormone therapy for what was, after all, a normal transition in a woman's lifespan. Houck argues that the medical and popular understandings of menopause at any given time depended o... Read more at Amazon
How to Write and Publish a Scientific PaperISBN: 9780521671675 Guide on writing and submitting a scientific paper for graduates to professionals.... Read more at Amazon
Human RemainsISBN: 9780300116991 Looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. This book tells a story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before the use of human remains was regulated.... Read more at Amazon
Innovation in Chinese MedicineISBN: 9780521800686 A series of case-studies exploring the transformation of Chinese medicine over the centuries.... Read more at Amazon
John Macalister's Other VisionISBN: 9781857757897 Traces the history of The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine from its formation. This book includes biographies and images of the major figures involved in the institution, along with background information for those involved in postgraduate education. It is intended for the members of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.... Read more at Amazon
Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680ISBN: 9780521558273 This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in their social and cultural contexts. The book maps out vividly some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, how surgeons worked upon the body and their understanding of what they were doing, and the prevention and treatment of plague.The structures of practice and knowledge examined in the first part of the book came to be c... Read more at Amazon
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and LipitorISBN: 9780195300994 Jie Jack Li is a medicinal chemist and is intimately involved with drug discovery. Through extensive research and interviews with the inventors of drugs, including those of Viagra and Lipitor, he has assembled an astounding number of facts and anecdotes, as well as much useful information about important drugs we know and use in our lives today. Figures, diagrams, and illustrations highlight the text throughout.... Read more at Amazon
Leprosy in Colonial South IndiaISBN: 9780333926222 Leprosy in Colonial South India argues that the British raj was limited in its power and asserts the neglected role of the suffering in the constitution of colonial power. Although leprosy is often assumed to attract universal stigma and opprobrium, in Hindu culture only the vagrant poor with leprosy were stigmatized and subject to outcasting and disinheritance. For the British, leprosy was primarily a disease of the Indian male poor, visible in the ulcerated bodies of vagrants and beggars. The public body... Read more at Amazon
Li Dong-Yuan's Treatise on the Spleen and StomachISBN: 9780936185415 Li Dong-Yuan's Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach... Read more at Amazon
Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their MeaningsISBN: 9780801885488 Explores and reflects on a field that accommodates a diversity of practitioners and approaches. This work discusses such issues as the periodic estrangement of medical history from medicine, the influence of Foucault on the writing of medical history, and the shifts from social to cultural history and back again.... Read more at Amazon
MalariaISBN: 9780801866371 In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys approaches malaria from three perspectives: the parasite's biological history, the medical response to it, and the patient's experience of the disease. She asks how the parasite thrives and eventually becomes vulnerable, how professionals came to know about the parasite and learned how to fight it, and how people viewed the disease and came to understand and support the struggle against it.Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Pu... Read more at Amazon
Medical FirstsISBN: 9780471401759 In Medical Firsts, science journalist and author Robert Adler recounts the fascinating story of Western medicine as told through the lives and achievements of more than thirty of its brightest lights. Combining a journalist's economy of style and a born storyteller's way with a good yarn, he takes us on a grand tour of 2,500 years of medical innovation - from Hippocrates' grand idea to William Harvey's discovery of the workings of the human circulatory system to Pasteur's proof of the germ theory of disease... Read more at Amazon
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan LondonISBN: 9780199215270 Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because his medical ideas were antithetical to the most learned physicians. This book provides an account of Forman's papers and recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.... Read more at Amazon
Medicine in the Days of the PharaohsISBN: 9780674017023 Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of people from many walks of life - farmers, fishermen, miners, soldiers, scribes and priests, embalmers, construction workers, bakers, prostitutes. From mummies and medical papyri we are able to recognize the aches of osteoarthritis, imagine the occupational hazards faced by press-ganged stonemasons, and learn of the gynecological com... Read more at Amazon
Medicine Through TimeISBN: 9780003270075
Medieval Islamic MedicineISBN: 9780748620678 Provides a survey of medieval Islamic medicine, offering insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture. This work is organised around five topics: the emergence of medieval Islamic medicine and its intense cross-pollination with other cultures, the theoretical medical framework, and more.... Read more at Amazon
Merciful Release: The History of the British Euthenasia MovementISBN: 9780719061240 Aiming to provide a comprehensive study of the British euthanasia movement, Kemp draws upon diverse historical issues which illustrate the persistant failure of attempts to legalize euthanasia in the United Kingdom.... Read more at Amazon
Multiple SclerosisISBN: 9781888799804 In this comprehensive history, we meet individuals who suffered with MS in the centuries before the disease had a name, including blessed Lidwina of Holland, who took joy from her misery, believing that she was sent to accept suffering for the sins of others; Augustus d'Este, grandson of George III and cousin of Queen Victoria, whose case shows how someone with access to the best of medical care of the age was understood and managed; and Heinrich Heine, the German poet, who also had access to all medical se... Read more at Amazon
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848ISBN: 9780674023970 As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? This title takes the reader to the 13th century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing.... Read more at Amazon
Oxford Dictionary of Medical QuotationsISBN: 9780198565987 Suitable for doctors, this title contains several quotations, both from the famous and the not so famous.... Read more at Amazon
Patients in the History of HomoeopathyISBN: 9780953652242 Patients in the History of Homoeopathy... Read more at Amazon
PenicillinISBN: 9780199254064 Sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the context of social and cultural change across the world. This book examines the drug's critical contributions to medicine and agriculture, and investigates the global spread of resistant bacteria as antibiotic use continues to rise. It is of interest to historians, scientists, and others.... Read more at Amazon
Penicillin ManISBN: 9780750931526 Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin - which he found growing on a petri dish of staphylococci when he returned to work after a holiday - revolutionised healthcare and turned the modest, self-effacing Fleming into a world hero. A team at Oxford, led by Howard Florey and including German Jewish refugee Ernst Chain, helped to turn Fleming's find into a usable drug and, in an unprecedented move of international cooperation, penicillin was taken over to America to be produced on a mass scale. Yet it was... Read more at Amazon
Plagues and PoxesISBN: 9781888799798 Bollet (medicine, Yale U.) has written widely about medical history, especially during the 19th century, and some of the chapters here are revised from articles he has published elsewhere. The first edition (no date noted) looked at the impact of diseases on history, emphasizing new diseases that were emerging at the time. The second reverses the p... Read more at Amazon
Polio and Its AftermathISBN: 9780674013155 In Polio and Its Aftermath Marc Shell, who himself had polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He draws a detailed yet comprehensive picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease that affects every facet of human existence.... Read more at Amazon
Polio's LegacyISBN: 9780761801443 This study shows the reality of polio and how it alters human lives. Polio survivors explain their experiences - the day they were diagnosed with polio; their initial hospital stay; their therapy and treatments; and the effects of polio on their childhood, youth, adulthood and relationships.... Read more at Amazon
Practical PursuitsISBN: 9780674019522 The history of Western medicine in the late Tokugawa period is usually depicted as a prelude to modern medicine. By comparison to the Western medical science that was systematically introduced in the Meiji period, the Tokugawa study of Western learning is often seen as a hopelessly backward exercise in which inadequately equipped Japanese doctors valiantly struggled to make sense of outdated Dutch knowledge. In contrast, this book argues that the study of Western medicine was a dynamic activity that brought... Read more at Amazon
Quest for ConceptionISBN: 9780812215281 In Quest for Conception, Marcia C. Inhorn portrays the poignant struggles of poor, urban Egyptian women and their attempts to overcome infertility. The author draws upon fifteen months of fieldwork in urban Egypt to present moving stories of infertile Muslim women whose tumultuous medical pilgrimages - or their search for children, as they call their quests for conception - have yet to produce the desired pregnancies. Inhorn examines the devastating impact of infertility on the lives of these women, who a... Read more at Amazon
Quiet KillersISBN: 9780750941082 With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely look at 'quiet killers' through the ages. Malaria, the killer of Oliver Cromwell, was, like many other infectious diseases, endemic in Britain until vanquished by science in the twentieth century. Yet now the trend is reversing. Dr Baker discusses the future impact of deadly diseases in a changing world.... Read more at Amazon
Rats, Lice and HistoryISBN: 9781412806725 The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings, who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human. This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs.... Read more at Amazon
Remarkable Story of Great Ormond St HospitalISBN: 9781847371133 The remarkable story of Great Ormond St Hospital - the first children's hospital in the English-speaking world.... Read more at Amazon
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth CenturyISBN: 9780521272056 Focusing on medicine in the hospitals, the community, and the laboratory, the author contends that the impact of science was more striking on the public face of medicine and the diagnostic skills of doctors than it was on their actual therapeutic capacities. He examines the parallel development of biomedical sciences.... Read more at Amazon
Screening the BodyISBN: 9780816622894
Soviet Medicine in the Fight Against Mental DiseasesISBN: 9780898756111 Soviet Medicine in the Fight Against Mental Diseases... Read more at Amazon
Spreading GermsISBN: 9780521773027 Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys revises many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine.... Read more at Amazon
The Cambridge History of MedicineISBN: 9780521682893 Surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present.... Read more at Amazon
The Cambridge Illustrated History of MedicineISBN: 9780521002523 An authoritative and accessible illustrated introduction to medical history.... Read more at Amazon
The Cholesterol Wars: The Skeptics Vs. the Preponderance of EvidenceISBN: 9780123739797 Today, in the era of the statins, there is no longer any doubt about the value of lowering blood cholesterol levels. The Cholesterol Wars chronicles the controversy that swirled around the 'lipid hypothesis' of atherosclerosis for years. The position of many clinicians is 'the lower the better.' Getting to this point, however, has been a long uphill battle marked by heated debate and sometimes violent disagreement. The history of this controversy is told here.... Read more at Amazon
The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of MedicineISBN: 9780801885471 Explores the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as general questions concerning the historical and philosophical approach to medicine from antiquity to the early twentieth century.... Read more at Amazon
The First Hundred Fellows by AssessmentISBN: 9780850842425 The First Hundred Fellows by Assessment... Read more at Amazon
The Greatest Benefit to MankindISBN: 9780006374541 Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient times, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased to be nasty, brutish and short.... Read more at Amazon
The Healing ArtsISBN: 9780719067341 The book will appeal to students, teachers, health workers and general readers who wish to develop a critical awareness of medicine in the past. The essays are complemented by a selection of primary and secondary readings in the companion volume, Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book.... Read more at Amazon
The History of Albuminous Nephritis (1840)ISBN: 9780854840984 The History of Albuminous Nephritis (1840)... Read more at Amazon
The History of Moorfields Eye Hospital (v.III)ISBN: 9781853155802 This account covers the past 40 years in the history of Moorfields. The book gives a general account of developments from the early 1960s to the present day - descriptions of changes in all the clinical services, a review of education and research, and an overview of all aspects of management, finance and infrastructure.... Read more at Amazon
The Insanity of Place / The Place of InsanityISBN: 9780415770064 This book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Its historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, and Edward Shorter, and subsequent chapters examine some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present.The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity will be of interest to students and professionals of the history of... Read more at Amazon
The Nursing SisterISBN: 9780709074151 Using first-hand as well as historical accounts, Peter Ardern examines this important role in nursing, from the religious sisterhoods of the nineteenth century and the martinets of the early twentieth century to the modern ward sister of today, who has now taken over many jobs that were previously those of junior doctors. The job satisfaction, respect for authority, camaraderie, teamwork, as well as the many restrictions and sacrifices associated with the job, are also explored, often with the help of amusi... Read more at Amazon
The Phantom Museum: And Henry Wellcome's Collection of Medical CuriositiesISBN: 9781861976185 Writing inspired by the medical, scientific and sometimes downright extraordinary contents of Henry Wellcome's museum.... Read more at Amazon
The Powerful PlaceboISBN: 9780801866753 A scholarly examination of the placebo effect. The authors survey the use of placebos from antiquity to modern times; examine the development, use and validity of the double-blind, controlled clinical trial; and present their own study of the placebo effect in more than 1000 patients.... Read more at Amazon
The Quotable OslerISBN: 9781930513341 Despite William Osler's enduring importance, a single source of his sayings has not been readily available to those seeking an apt quote for an article or talk, or for those who may just want to sample his messages. The Quotable Osler is designed as a resource to fill this need.... Read more at Amazon
The Radcliffe InfirmaryISBN: 9780752442488 The Radcliffe Infirmary holds a special place in the history of medicine. It was here that penicillin was first used to treat infections, the first accident service was set up, and a flying squad to go to the aid of mothers in crisis in childbirth was created. This work presents a picture of hospital life since the Infirmary's foundation in 1770.... Read more at Amazon
The Rise and Fall of Modern MedicineISBN: 9780349112800 An appraisal of the science, philosophy and politics of modern medicine. The author argues that, whilst the scope of medicine is immeasurably greater than it was half a century ago, the optimism generated by its advances seems to have evaporated: medicine is doing better but feeling worse.... Read more at Amazon
The Secret History of the War on CancerISBN: 9780465015665 For much of its history, the cancer war has been fighting the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies. The campaign has targeted the disease and left off the table the things that cause it - tobacco, alcohol, the workplace, and other environmental hazards. Conceived in explicitly military terms, the effort has focused on defeating an enemy by detecting, treating, and curing disease. Overlooked and suppressed was any consideration of how the world in which we live and work affects wh... Read more at Amazon
The Secret Life of Dr James BarryISBN: 9780752441399 James Barry was an innovative medical pioneer, radical humanitarian and flamboyant dandy who traversed the British Empire during the nineteenth century. Presenting a story of nineteenth century science and the mysteries of sexuality, this book aims to bring to life this enigmatic figure.... Read more at Amazon
The Surgeon in Medieval English LiteratureISBN: 9781403968463 The medieval English surgeon was subject to a huge variety of cultural perceptions, ranging from that of pitiless butcher to sanctified healer. The bloody craft of surgery served as a uniquely encompassing metaphor for later medieval Christian identity, as defined by the urgent struggle between damnation and salvation articulated so vividly in Middle English poetry and prose. Citrome employs a variety of critical approaches to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power i... Read more at Amazon
The Western Medical TraditionISBN: 9780521475655 An authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.... Read more at Amazon
The Western Medical TraditionISBN: 9780521475648 It provides a much-needed account of the very latest historical scholarship.... Read more at Amazon
The Western Medical TraditionISBN: 9780521475242 An authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.... Read more at Amazon
The World of CaffeineISBN: 9780415927239 How much do we really know about our number one drug? This natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favourite mood enhancer tells us more, by looking at how caffeine was discovered, its early uses, and its unexpected role in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning and love.... Read more at Amazon
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal MedicineISBN: 9780520229365 The Yellow Emperor's Classic has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization. Since 1949, when this first translation of the oldest known document in Chinese medicine was published, traditional medical practice has seen a dynamic revival in China and throughout many countries in the Western world. Elements of this time-honored therapy, including acupuncture and the harmony of human spirit with the natural world, have become part of mainstream medical practice; The Yellow Emperor's Classic provi... Read more at Amazon
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal MedicineISBN: 9781570620805 The Neijing is one of the most important classics of Taoism, as well as the highest authority on traditional Chinese medicine. Its authorship is attributed to the great Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who reigned during the third millennium BCE. This new translation consists of the eighty-one chapters of the section of the Neijing known as the Suwen, or Questions of Organic and Fundamental Nature (The other section, called the Lingshu, is a technical book on acupuncture and is not included here.)The orig... Read more at Amazon
Traditional Thai MedicineISBN: 9781890772673 In Thailand, traditional folk medicine competes successfully with Western hospital-based medicine, and represents a popular approach to healing even in modern cities such as Bangkok. This book offers a broad-brush history of medicine in Thailand from the 3rd millennium BC onwards.... Read more at Amazon
Traumatic PastsISBN: 9780521583657 The essays in this book trace the origins of recent, heated debates regarding trauma.... Read more at Amazon
Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of the PioneersISBN: 9780123739919 Tropical medicine attained its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the British Empire was at its zenith. The specialty was largely created by British physicians who were often 'larger than life' individuals. The early years of the 'formal discipline' were closely associated with the activities of the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which provided a forum upon which many of the enigmas relating to the exotic infections, most of parasitic origin, were discussed by... Read more at Amazon
Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARSISBN: 9780801881244 Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the SARS virus demonstrated just how vulnerable human society is to disease. Emerging new infectious diseases like SARS have been erupting at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication that the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of which will be much more lethal and contagious than SARS.This book looks at the emergence of new diseases, as well as the politics and economics of disease. It... Read more at Amazon
VaccineISBN: 9780393059113 In 1796, as smallpox ravaged Europe, Edward Jenner injected a child with a benign version of the disease, then exposed the child to the deadly virus itself. The boy proved resistant to smallpox and Jenner's risky experiment produced the earliest vaccination. This title reveals the history of vaccination.... Read more at Amazon
Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern EnglandISBN: 9780199202706 Offers a way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. This study provides ways to understand how ordinary people experienced political conflicts and social change.... Read more at Amazon
Wellcome Historical Medical Library Catalogue of Printed Books (v. 3)ISBN: 9780854840410 Wellcome Historical Medical Library Catalogue of Printed Books (v. 3)... Read more at Amazon
Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle AgesISBN: 9780674007956 This text covers medical thought from antiquity through to the Middle Ages, reconstructing the slow transformation and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine.... Read more at Amazon
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