Revised and expanded edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 272 p. — (Foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg). Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history...
Safari Books, 2012. — 340 p. It is the aim of this book while clarifying doubts and misconceptions, to provide a thorough reappraisal of the intellectual and rich cultural heritage of Islam with regards to the principles and practice of medicine and its representation to the world in the language of today. In nine chapters a range of topics are discussed including: The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 296 p. Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval Mediterranean medicineFor more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 440 p. This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects — disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's health — organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. — 450 p. — ISBN10: 0520226607; ISBN13: 978-0520226609. This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro...
Liveright, 2021. — 416 p. The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat — and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg — a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs — was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 239 p. — (Oxford Medical Histories). — ISBN: 978-0-19-963997-7, 0199639973, 9781299677364, 1299677363. In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born photographer, William N Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Rontgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of...
Berkeley, New York: Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Fordham University Press, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0823266141; ISBN13: 978-0823266142. With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, it is now commonplace to assume that the study of a human person-a thinking, feeling, acting subject-is ultimately the study of the human...
Central European University Press, 2010. — 412 p. Examines the theoretical and practical outlook of forensic physicians in Imperial Russia, from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, arguing that the interaction between state and these professionals shaped processes of reform in contemporary Russia. It demonstrates the ways in which the professional evolution of forensic...
N.-Y.: Perigee Trade, 2013. - 224 p. Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors,...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. — 1058 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78327-516-8, ISBN: 978-1-78744-931-2. The Black Death was a disaster of huge magnitude, shaking medieval Europe and beyond to its economic and social core. Building upon his acclaimed study of 2004, Ole Benedictow here draws upon new scholarship and research to present a comprehensive, definitive account of the Black...
Presses Université Laval, 2018. — 232 p. Il a fallu beaucoup de temps, malgré les observations des premiers contagionistes au XVIIIe siècle, malgré les intuitions de Villemin et d'autres médecins au XIXe siècle, malgré les découvertes de Koch en 1882 et malgré tous les progrès de la bactériologie au tournant du XXe siècle, avant que la tuberculose en vienne à être reconnue pour...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 311 p. — ISBN10: 022611029X, ISBN13: 978-0226110295. Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. With Visualizing Disease,...
New York: Future Publishing, 2019. — 150 p. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease or illnesses are all things that have been practised throughout the different phases of human history. It is safe to say that we as humans would certainly not exist in the capacity that we do now without the medical advancements that we have made. The History of Medicine will look at the...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. — 280 p. Early Civilisation of the Hindoos Ancient Writers on Hindoo Medicine The Hindoo Theory of Creation Hindoo Practice during Period of Nubility Principles of Hygiene as understood by the Hindoos Theory of Indian Medicine Indian Materia Medica Hindoo Writers on aEtiology, Diagnosis and Treatment Qualities of a Physician and his Prognosis...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 265 p. Medicine, Mediation and Meaning De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient’s View? Medical...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 346 p. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 446 p. In this volume, a distinguished international team of scholars examines the history of drugs within all the major medical traditions of the medieval Mediterranean, namely Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin, and in so doing analyzes a considerable number of previously unedited or barely explored texts. A Mediterranean-wide...
Polity Press, 2023. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-1509550722. In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved. Those present could barely believe their eyes: they had witnessed...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 347 p. Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different approaches and on sources as varied as notes...
Zürich: Orell Füssli, 1922. - 182 p. Der Schweizer Chirurg und Medizinhistoriker Conrad Brunner stellt im vorliegenden Band eine umfassende Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Medizin und Krankenpflege der Schweiz zusammen. Er beschreibt die Entwicklungen seit dem Zusammenbruch Roms von der Klerikermedizin bis hin zur Loslösung der medizinischen Praxis von der Kirche, gibt einen...
Routledge, 2015. — 328 p. England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years behind other European authorities. Using the coroner's inquest as a lens, this book hopes to offer a fresh perspective on the process of death investigation in medieval England. The central premise of this...
New York, "Oxford University Press", 2008. — 168 p. Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval tradition and the Enlightenment to the present day. Taking a thematic rather than strictly chronological approach, W.F. Bynum, explores...
Greenwood, 2008. — 917 p. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the...
ABC-Clio, 2012. — 452 p. This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors.
Routledge, 2003. — 237 p. Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track...
Routledge, 2003. — 237 p. Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track...
New York: Knopf, 1947. — 646 p. Medical Thought in Its Historical Evolution; The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Poeples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine; Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine; Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept; The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 304 p. Brain Renaissance, from Vesalius to contemporary neuroscience is published on the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of Vesalius. The authors translated those Latin chapters of the Fabrica dedicated to the brain, a milestone in the history of neuroscience. Many chapters are accompanied by a...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 408 p. — ISBN: 9781421419039 An alternative medical system emphasizing prevention through healthy living, positive mind-body-spirit strength, and therapeutics to enhance the body’s innate healing processes, naturopathy has gained legitimacy in recent years. In Nature’s Path — the first comprehensive book to examine the complex history and...
Calcutta: Ramchandra Chakraberty, M. A., 1923. — Anatomy Osteology Arthrology Myology The Vascular System Physiology Digestion Circulation The Nervous System Pathology Constitutional Pathogenesis Mechanical Pathogenesis Infections Diseases and their Diagnosis Diseases and their Clinical Studies Fevers Diarrhoea Diabetes Diseases of the Bladder Diseases of the Mouth Tumors Skin...
Oxford, U.K.: Lion Books, 2016. — 543 p. : illustrations. Since the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and complex journey, seeking to find out how our bodies work, and what heals them. Embarking on a four-thousand-year odyssey, science historian Allan Chapman brings to life the...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 353 p. With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American children now receive more vaccines than...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 562 p. In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce — not religion — inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook scrutinizes a wealth of historical documents relating to the study of medicine and...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 223 p. In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous...
Routledge, 2017. — 278 p. — (The History of Medicine in Context) The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes...
Restless Architect of Human Possibilities sas (R.A.H.P. Sas), 2014. — 96 p. Il prestigio dell’arte medica nell’Egitto antico ci è testimoniato da opere monumentali costituite da alcuni papiri famosi – così come l’architettura ha la dimostrazione della sua magnificenza nella “grande piramide”. Ma mentre la fama degli architetti egizi non si tradusse in una loro ricerca...
London: Routledge, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0415510783; ISBN13: 978-0415510783. This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how...
Leiden: Clio Medica 96, 2015. — 371 p. Drawing on casebooks and other practice records and linking case studies with synthetic chapters, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the changing nature of ordinary and place medical practice in early modern Europe. About the Contributors. Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and...
DK, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 9781465453419 Medicine tells the fascinating story of the discipline, from ancient times to the present day, charting developments in healing, diagnosis, surgery, and drugs in a vividly visual and accessible format. Follow the gory pitfalls and the miraculous breakthroughs of medical history from trepanning, bloodletting, and body snatching to the...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 516 p. Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly expanded, including...
3rd Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 560 p. — ISBN: 9780802095565, 0802095569. Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely appreciated by general readers for more than twenty years. Based on sound scholarship and...
Brill, 2016. — 297 p. Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insights for scientific as well as clinical progress. The modern...
Springer, 2008. - 379 p. ISBN: 3540792155 Anschaulich, lebendig und kompakt: so präsentiert der Autor die Medizingeschichte von der Steinzeit über die Antike und das Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei werden nicht nur medizinische und historische Fakten dargestellt, sondern auch Denkhaltungen, Grundkonzepte und Leitlinien der verschiedenen Epochen vermittelt. Zusammen...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 328 p. An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is lesser known: Gender was first used in clinical...
CRC Press, 2018. — 282 p. Written in a personal and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. It describes the key advances in surgery through the ages, from primitive techniques such as trepanning, some of the gruesome but occasionally successful...
Chicago: The Psychic Research Company, 1902. — 165 p. The book is an examination of mesmerism, also known as animal magnetism, and its use in India, this title allows readers the opportunity to learn about a popular theory that never gained scientific recognition. Mesmerism is a theory based on the beliefs of German, Frank Mesmer, that a natural force exists in the world that...
Washington: Potomac Books, 2011. — 276 p. — ISBN10: 1597978485; ISBN13: 978-1597978484. Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword gashes, dysentery, and infection without the benefits of anesthesia or modern medical...
Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by R. J. Hankinson. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. — XV, 349 p. — (Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 35); (De causis procatarcticis). — ISBN: 0-521-62250-6. Contents: Preface. Note on citations. List of abbreviations. Galen’s life. The ancient concept of causation. The medical schools. The text...
Edited with introduction and commentary by Vivian Nutton. — With an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — X, 404 p. — (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 47). — ISBN 978-0-521-11549-0. Acknowledgments. Introduction: The treatise: Authenticity. Date. Galen’s anatomical reasoning. The textual traditions: Greek. The...
ASM Press, USA, 2011. — 342 p. — ISBN: 1555815294. From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald — the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection. Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy The...
N.-Y.: Harper-Collins, 2015. — 448 p. Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the father of cognitive neuroscience," gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on the enigmatic coupling of the right and left brain In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga made one of the great discoveries in the history of neuroscience: split-brain theory, the notion that the right...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1119025524; ISBN13: 978-1119025528. Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing...
Springer, 2019. — 322 p. This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders （shanghan jiushi lun, 傷寒九十論）– which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals patterns of social as well as medical history. This book provides the readers with a distinctive first...
Monograph. Chicago, 2001, 432 p. Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both...
Translation and notes by Mark Grant. — Routledge, 2000. — 225 p. At the apogee of ancient medical advances stood Galen (AD 129-c. AD 210), once the personal physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius. A prolific writer, among his surviving works is what he believed to be the definitive guide to a healthy diet, based on the theory of the four humours. In these treatises Galen sets...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 281 p. This collection compares Russian and Soviet medical workers – physicians, psychiatrists and nurses, and examines them within an international framework that challenges traditional Western conceptions of professionalism and professionalization through exploring how these ideas developed amongst medical workers in Russia and the Soviet Union....
Routledge, 2018. — 258 p. This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relationship between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can...
London: MIT, 2009. - 364 p. Language: English. A series of essays on the history of early discoveries in the science of the brain and nervous system. Early Neuroscience and Its Reverberations Today. A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation. Heart versus Brain: Galen and the Squealing Pig. The Fire That Comes from the Eye. The Discovery of Motor Cortex. Neuroscience and Art....
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 310 p. Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus...
Columbia University Press, 2015. — 544 p. A Technical Note In The Capital Reading Paintings, Painting The Medical, Medicalizing The State Anatomy Of An Attitude: Medicine Comes Of Age Bones Of Contention The Word Of The Buddha The Evidence Of The Body: Medical Channels, Tantric Knowing Tangled Up In System: The Heart, In The Text And In The Hand Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, And...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. — 232 p. The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man whose burning desire for certain,...
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. — 289 p. "Unfortunately for the earth's fragile ecosystem, war remains the policy of choice among feuding nations and peoples, wreaking havoc not only on fellow human beings but on all living species. One of the few positive outcomes to emerge from this man-made trauma was the effort, begun by Dominique-Jean Larrey during...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. — 556 p. The first book of its kind, A History of Organ Transplantation examines the evolution of surgical tissue replacement from classical times through the medieval period and up to the present day. This volume will be useful to undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, surgeons, and the general public. Both Western and non-Western...
The University of South Carolina Press, 2019. — 193 p. — ISBN: 978-1-64336-025-6 Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter show...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 472 p. Galen of Pergamum (ad 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than 1,500 years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 326 p. — (Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History). — ISBN10: 3319324543. — ISBN13: 978-3319324548. This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly...
New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 230 p. — ISBN 0–333–98644–X. Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000. Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual...
W. W. Norton Company, 2019. — 384 p. In Mind Fixers , Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within , explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 280 p. The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such a radically different interpretation, by scholars and popular writers alike, resulted in new, widespread views on the salubrious effects...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 268 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners – druggists and healers – survives in Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-based. This book features fourteen scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East (three of them from Yemen)...
Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2006. — 307 p. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. — 257 p. — ISBN: 9780262045902. In How Not to Study a Disease, neurobiologist Karl Herrup explains why the Alzheimer's discoveries of the 1990s didn't bear fruit and map a direction for future research. Herrup describes the research, explains what's taking so long, and offers an approach for resetting future research. Herrup offers a...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. — xiv, 230 p. — ISBN: 9789888390946. As the University of Hong Kong’s Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine celebrates 130 years since its establishment as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (‘the college’) in 1887, it is only right that we trace and remember our roots. This anniversary immediately follows the 150th anniversary...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 279 p. This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation and pluralism. The intertwined histories of medicine, empire and...
London: Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 225 p. Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it was said Holloway’s Ointment could cure...
Dutton Adult, 2014. — 336 p. Is the end of HIV upon us? Award-winning research scientist and HIV fellow at the Ragon Institute, Nathalia Holt, reveals the science behind the discovery of a functional cure and what it means for the millions affected by HIV and the history of the AIDS pandemic. Two men, known in medical journals as the Berlin Patients, revealed answers to a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 225 p. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century. Ringworm: A Disease of Schools and Mass...
Academic Press, 2019. — 204 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-816439-6. This book not only explores how to end humanity’s suffering from illness, but also attempts to explain the challenging problems that may arise from the control of future disease. It provides a novel perspective on how to understand the changing patterns of disease, disease development, and defense from an evolutionary...
New York: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 520 p. The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and...
Springer Nature, Nature America Inc., USA, 2016. — 292 p. — ISBN: 1137580925. This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine. It explores the pivotal role fiber played as a defining, underlying concept in anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, psychology, and the life sciences. With the gradual demise of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 208 p. Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire offers a fascinating holistic look at the practice of ancient Roman medicine. Ido Irsaelowich presents three richly detailed case studies — one focusing on the home and reproduction; another on the army; the last on medical tourism — from the point of view of those on both sides of the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 896 p. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources....
London: Routledge, 2017. — 674 p. The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the globe, presenting a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in...
L.: Oneworld, 2014. — 232 p. — (Beginner's Guides). — ISBN: 978-1-78074-520-6. As scientists confidently look forward to average life expectancies hitting 100+ years in some Western societies, it’s easy to forget how precarious our grasp on good health has been. It is a struggle no better demonstrated than by the myriad and extraordinary measures that humans have gone to – as...
Oneworld Publications, 2014. — 232 p. — (Beginner's Guides). — ISBN: 978-1-78074-520-6. In a world burdened by chronic conditions and mutating viruses, with a health service strained to its limits, the history of medicine challenges our understanding of what it means to be healthy. By illuminating the ailments and methods of the past, our own dilemmas about medical practice and...
CRC Press, 2023. — 385 p. — ISBN: 9781032226637. This text is both a history of skin disease and a history of dermatology, telling the human historical experience of skin disease and how we have come to know what we know about the skin and its myriad diseases throughout four millennia, looking at key figures in life and literature and key events such as the Black Death and the...
Beacon Press, 2014. Illustrated An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point. Bizarre as these methods may seem, many are the precursors of today’s notions of healthy living. We have the nineteenth-century practice of medical gymnastics to thank for today’s emphasis on regular exercise, and hydropathy’s various water...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 376 p. Schistosomiasis, filariasis, and geohelminth infections still cause untold misery, along with their protistan counterparts such as leishmaniasis and amebiasis, especially in the tropics. But these infectious diseases also have inspired generations of parasitologists to apply their time, talents, and intellectual resources to find cures, or...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — 357 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4214-0801-9 Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 440 p. From Ayurvedic texts to botanical medicines to genomics, ideas and expertise about veterinary healing have circulated between cultures through travel, trade, and conflict. In this broad-ranging and accessible study spanning 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary...
Translated by Neil Allies. Edited with a Preface by Philip van der Eijk. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012 — xx + 403 p. — (Studies in Ancient Medicine 40) — ISSN: 0925-1421, ISBN: 978-90-04-20859-9; ISBN: 978-90-04-23254-9. The purpose of this volume is to make available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna’s papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. — 40 p. Recognized today largely for his contributions to chemistry and to the role of experiment in scientific investigation, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) wrote extensively on the causes of disease, the importance of dissection to medical education, and the use and preparation of drugs. In the first in-depth study of Boyle's medical...
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. — 234 p. The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing...
Facts on File, 2009. — 158 p. During the Middle Ages (ca 529-1100), the rise of Christianity had a definite effect on the practice of medicine. Pope Gregory (ca 540-604) stressed the importance of prayer over medicine, and over time that sentiment became pervasive. This book illuminates what occurred during medieval times that affected future developments in medicine.
Mission Vijeo: Asklepiad Press, 2009. — 530 p. This introduction to the history of medicine begins with the evolution of infectious diseases at the end of the last ice age. It describes the origin of science and medicine in ancient civilizations, including China and India. The first third of the book covers the early period that is considered the "classical" history of...
New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2005. — 148 p. Medicine and Health covers the many contributions American Indians have made to the world in these areas. Early Native peoples learned which plants and animals provided them with the best nutrition. They invented treatments for their illnesses, performed operations on people including brain surgery and skin grafts and used...
Pegasus, 2018. — 858 p. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing — cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children.Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of...
Hippocrene Books, 2020. — 463 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7818-0786-9. Taking the reader on a historical tour of herbs and flowers used in Poland throughout the centuries, this carefully researched volume captures the unique history and role of plant life once essential to the people of Poland. Wander through monastery, castle, and cottage gardens with acclaimed Polish-American author...
Seoul Selection USA, Inc., 2013. — 102 p. — ISBN: 8997639390, 978-8997639397. Practitioners of Korean traditional medicine say the ultimate cause of disease is not so much the invasion of external elements but rather malfunctions in inherent bodily function. Since disease is considered to result from the weakening of vital energy, the emphasis is placed on boosting the body's...
New York: Chelsea House, 2008. – 120 p. — (Great historic disasters) In 1855, the science of medicine was still struggling to gain acceptance amid thousands of years of healing knowledge based on well-meaning but faulty ideas of the nature and causes of disease. Many people believed that illness was caused by miasma, or foul emanations from soil, air, and water. These...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 331 p. Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 299 p. During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatry — still a nascent medical specialty at the time — Meyer was selected to oversee the...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. — 297 p. This book is about the application and evolution of medical theories in the so-called Hippocratic treatises. According to Epidemics /, ch. 5 Li. (= ch. 11 Kw., Jones), "the art (tekhne) [of medicine] has three [aspects]: the disease, the patient, and the physician." The medical author understood that these three aspects were mutually...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 237 p. — (The New Middle Ages). — ISBN10: 1137465581. — ISBN13: 978-1137465580. This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad, or...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 255 p. The history of research into the function of the brain and language in nineteenth-century France. Paul Broca made the most significant discovery in nineteenth-century human biology when he found that speech resides within the left frontal lobe of the human brain. As a young surgeon working at the hospice at Bicêtre on the...
New York: Parthenon Pub. Group, 2000. — 168 p. Attractively bound and illustrated, Dates in Neurobiology presents an all-encompassing chronological history of neurology from the ideas of Greek and Roman civilization to the present day. Each entry contains a concise historical or biographical synopsis that helps readers appreciate the developments in anatomy, physiology,...
Ashgate, 2011. — 260 p. Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and...
Mew York: W&N, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1780227019; ISBN13: 978-1780227016. A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining 'lunatics' in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his...
University of Chicago Press, 1994. — 287 p. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly — radioactivity. In 1946, the United States government created the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) to serve as a permanent agency in Japan with the official mission of studying the medical effects of radiation...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 268 p. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one. Drawing on medical...
London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas, and beliefs. Agnes Loeffler's insightful and original book investigates how allopathic knowledge, theories, and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by practitioners in a...
International Academic Publishers, 2017. — 120 p. Sacred Science is an analysis of post-war discourses concerning health and illness. These discourses are an attempt to grasp the meaning of health in our modern human condition, and as such they provide both new insights into the genealogy of conceptualizations of both health and illness, but also serve as a viable hermeneutic...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 397 p. The volume provides an archive of some of the most beautiful illustrations ever made of the gravid uterus with fetus and placenta, which will serve future generations of investigators, educators, and students of reproduction. The approximately two hundred figures from over one hundred volumes included are from the late fifteenth through the...
Anaphora Literary Press, 2015. — 194 p. Diseases, Disorders and Diagnoses of Historical Individuals: Oftentimes, people look at famous individuals and think that such people are exempt from the physical limitations that bind us all as humans. Unfortunately, many times celebrities themselves think this is true. A stark reminder of this is the effects of substance misuse that...
Springer, 2017. — 279 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 50) This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor Nancy Siraisi and reflects the impact that Siraisi's scholarship has had on a range of fields. Contributions address several topics...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 848 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-976767-0. Abbreviations of Galen s Works Chronological Charts Prologue: The Rancid Cheese One Pergamum Two Learning Medicine The Gladiators Rome Anathomy and Boethus Marcus Aurelius and the Plague Galen and His Patients The Fire Epilogue: Galen and West ; or Galen and Two Disciples
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 287 p. — (Cambridge History of Medicine) — ISBN: 9780521524537 When we consider how the scientific revolution came to medicine, we often think of the rise of the great laboratory disciplines of the nineteenth century. Often overlooked in these accounts, however, is the role of clinical medicine and its important early branch, pathology....
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 287 p. — (Cambridge History of Medicine) — ISBN: 9780521524537 When we consider how the scientific revolution came to medicine, we often think of the rise of the great laboratory disciplines of the nineteenth century. Often overlooked in these accounts, however, is the role of clinical medicine and its important early branch, pathology....
Springer, 2023. — 605 p. — ISBN: 978-3-031-12002-2. This book offers a detailed history of plastic surgery procedures and their development from the ancient world, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, up to World War II. The origin of plastic surgery is essentially the story of wound management – the frequent struggle that primitive man engaged in to heal his injuries....
ABC-CLIO: Santa Barbara, California; Denver, Colorado; Oxford, England 2008. -408 p. Jack E. McCallum practiced adult and pediatric neurosurgery in Fort Worth, Texas, from 1977 to 2005. He earned a doctorate in history in 2001 and has taught American history, history of medicine, and the ethics of science at Texas Christian University since that time. He has recently published...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 338 p. Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year, now more than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study of global efforts to control TB, Christian...
Anchor, 2010. — 262 p. — ASIN B0047747QK, ISBN 0385121229, 0385112564 Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact Cpolitical, demographic, ecological, and psychological Cof disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by...
Gruppe I Diagnostik. Gruppe II Verband-Instrumente usw. Gruppe III Naht-Instrumente. Gruppe IV Narkose-Apparate. Gruppe V Injekt., subkut. Punktion. Gruppe VI Impf-Instrumente usw. Gruppe VII Chirurgie, allgemein. Gruppe VIII. Augen-Instrumente usw. Gruppe IX Ohr- u. Luftwege-Insirum. Gruppe X Instrumente und Apparate für die zahnheilkunde. Gruppe XI Instrumente für Schlund,...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 446 p. — ISBN: 9781782972358. There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42...
Georgetown University Press, 2020. — 286 p. The Torture Doctors - Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice by Steven H. Miles doggedly track down cases of medical participation in torture worldwide. The Torture Doctors offer a concise and valuable account of physician participation in interrogation, particularly in the era of new wars: asymmetric conflict, the global war on...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 350 p. Parasites have been infecting humans throughout our evolution. When complex societies developed, the greater population density provided new opportunities for parasites to spread. In this interdisciplinary volume, the author brings his expertise in medicine, archaeology and history to explore the contribution of parasites in causing...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 392 p. Traces the history of the study of tumor viruses and its role in driving breakthroughs in cancer research. Worldwide, approximately one-fifth of human cancers are caused by tumor viruses, with hepatitis B virus and HPV being the leading culprits. While the explosive growth in molecular biology in the late twentieth century is...
L.: Routledge, 2004. - 237 p. This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. Rather than treating medicine, the theater, and literary texts separately, the contributors show how the anxieties engendered by medical...
Scribner, 2022. — 1139 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9821-1737-5. Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down at their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every...
Riga: Götschel, 1849. — 134 S. Zur Nosologie. Anomalien im Verlauf der Cholera. Zur Aetiologie. Zur Prognosis. Zur Therapie. Allgemeine hygienische Einflüsse. Die Blutenziehungen. Die Arzeneimittel. Geschichtliches aus der Cholera-Epidemie in Riga im Jahr 1848. Zur homöopathischen Therapie der Cholera.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 3319663666, 13 978-3319663661. This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating the motivations that engender habits of belief, thought, and conduct regarding the disease and notions of the self, this interdisciplinary volume investigates constructions of syphilis...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 156 p. — ISBN10: 3319663666, 13 978-3319663661. This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating the motivations that engender habits of belief, thought, and conduct regarding the disease and notions of the self, this interdisciplinary volume investigates constructions of syphilis...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 155 p. — ISBN10: 3319289365; ISBN13: 978-3319289366. This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival either...
London - New York.: Routledge, 2004. — 501 p. Sources and scope. Patterns of disease. Before Hippocrates. Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine. Hippocratic theories. Hippocratic practices. Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece. From Plato to Praxagoras. Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation. Hellenistic medicine. Rome and the...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 505 p. — ISBN: 0415520940, 0415520959. — ISBN13: 978-0415520942. The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and...
Routledge, 2022. — 418 p. This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and Sweat, and by...
New York: Academic Press, Elsevier, 2010. - 268 p. Archives are the pillar of the history of each society. Since 1968 the Federation Executive Committee has discussed the necessity of creating a professionally maintained archive. No final solution was found about where to deposit Federation documents. In the early eighties William Cobb, then having just finished his term as...
State University of New York Press, 2009. — 304 p. Ottoman Medicine leaves its readers excited about where Shefer-Mossensohn might take her future research on Ottoman medicine as well as on medical theory, practice, and rhetoric writ large. Journal of the American Oriental Society the book s main strengths lie in the substantial and varied evidence, the rich anecdotes, and the...
DK, 2013. — 402 p. A gripping tale that traces medicine's extraordinary history Kill or Cure tells the riveting history of medicine from chipping holes in skulls to the latest gene therapy and revolutionary cancer treatments. Compelling stories of drama and detective work reveal the trial and error behind man's endless search for cures to diseases and how lucky we are to have...
DK, 2013. — 402 p. A gripping tale that traces medicine's extraordinary history Kill or Cure tells the riveting history of medicine from chipping holes in skulls to the latest gene therapy and revolutionary cancer treatments. Compelling stories of drama and detective work reveal the trial and error behind man's endless search for cures to diseases and how lucky we are to have...
DK Publishing, 2019. — 400 p. Immerse yourself in the history of medicine, a colorful story of skill, serendipity, mistakes, moments of genius, and dogged determination. From ancient ideas about anatomy to today's sophisticated gene therapies and robotic surgery, A Short History of Medicine combines riveting storytelling and beautiful images, historical accounts and lucid...
DK, 2013. — 546 p. — ISBN10: 1465408428. — ISBN13: 978-1465408426 A gripping tale that traces medicine's extraordinary history Kill or Cure tells the riveting history of medicine from chipping holes in skulls to the latest gene therapy and revolutionary cancer treatments. Compelling stories of drama and detective work reveal the trial and error behind man's endless search for...
Humanities Press, 1995. — 158 p. How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survived in other guises? This title sets out to answer some of these questions - questions that have acquired a new urgency in light of developments in genetic medicine....
Seaby, 1994. — 186 p. An unusual interesting work on all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman healing and different medical aspects as represented on ancient coins.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. — 197 p. This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to medicine in crime...
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1949. — 282 p. This handbook was written in the hope of assisting medical, dental, and nursing students to understand medical terminology. It is not a dictionary; it is concerned more with the origin and derivation of a word than with its meaning. Modern medical terminology includes words of great antiquity and also those of recent coinage....
Chicago: Brown, Pettibone & Co., 1889. — XIV, 184 p. Tutelar Gods and Patron Saints of Pharmacy. Pharmacy in the Middle Ages. Pharmacy in the Sixteenth Century. Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century. Pharmacy in the Eighteenth Century. Distilling Apparatus. Early Chemico-pharmacal Stoves and Fire-places. Ancient Pharmacopoeias. Medical Superstitions. Pharmacy and the Art of Love....
Leiden: Brill, 2015. - 555 p. "Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World" is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time. This volume makes a strong claim for the relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history...
Sterling, 2012. — 528 p. — (Sterling Milestones). Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical...
NY: Sterling, 2012. — 528 p. — (Sterling Milestones). Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical...
Springer, 2019 (the original 1st ed. 2007 ed.). — 271 p. — (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology). — ISBN10: 149397906X, 13 978-1493979066. Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Films and television programs have portrayed them as places of horror...
London: Tempus Pub Ltd, 2000. — 280 p. What did the people of 17th-century England do when they got a dose of the clap? They reached for "Walker's Jesuit Drops" or "Wessels Specific Purging remedy for Venereal Diseases" of course. Did either work? Was urine-gazing by the 'pisse prophets' (with or without the patient being present) an effective diagnostic tool?
London: Routledge, 2019. — 273 p. Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of papers surveying and assessing the particular approaches and techniques which have been used in the history of medicine in the past or are still being developed (from the influence of Annales to the role of the computer). The emphasis is on...
Fontana Press, 1999. — 848 p. — ISBN: 0-00-637454-9. Yet another compulsively readable, astonishingly encyclopaedic book from Roy Porter!his best to date: an epic, one-volume narrative history of man's struggle with the infirmities of his body, from Aesculapius to AIDS.' SIMON SCHAMA 'Whether you are interested in the advent of the stethoscope, the history of yellow fever, the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 463 p. The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the...
Maganespress, 2012. — 1024 p. — ISBN: 978-965-493-582-1. In Hebrew. This is a translation of the 1911 Biblisch-Talmudiesche Medizin , an extensively researched text that gathers the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures, written by German physician and scholar Julius Preuss (1861-1913).
Harvard University Press, 1988. — 414 p. Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a...
Pearson Education, 2010. — 820 p. — ISBN: 978-0-13-713748-0. The World's First Physician: Hippocrates and Discovery of the Medicine How Cholera Saved Civilization : The Discovery of Sanitation Invisible Inviders: The Discovery of Germs and How They Cause of Disease For The Relief of Unbearable Pain: The Discovery of Anesthesia I'm Looking Through Your: The Discovery of X-Rays...
New York: Springer, 2019. — 323 p. One of the greatest achievements of historical scholarship in the last half century has been the extensive investigation of the crimes of the National Socialist doctors during the Holocaust. One area which has been largely unexplored, however, is the perspective of the National Socialists, in effect, the perpetrators of the crimes. In...
Springer, 2007. — 196 p. — ISBN: 978-3-211-48949-9. Vienna – medically. One can look at Vienna from this perspective, too. There are traces to be found almost everywhere in the city, as not all that long ago Vienna was, from the viewpoint of medical history, regarded as the "Mecca of Medicine". This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna....
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 276 p. The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians...
Springer Netherlands, 2010. — 149 p. The study of medical history is interesting in itself and may help to modify the view sometimes expressed that medical students and doctors are lacking in culture of any sort. Moreover, some historical perspective is often advantageous when one is considering the multitude of advances that are now taking place in the theory and practice of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 213 p. From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the basisand rationality that these divine connections had and, being preserved in myths and religious stories, they continued to have a significant impact...
Leiden: Brill, 2003. — 347 p. This book is a study of the ways in which Galen sought to establish the brain as the regent part (hegemonikon) of the body, utilizing a rigorous anatomical epistemology and an often sophisticated (but perforce limited) set of physiological arguments. Part 1 surveys the medical and philosophical past in which the study of the brain occurred, and...
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 347 p. This book is a study of the ways in which Galen sought to establish the brain as the regent part (hegemonikon) of the body, utilising a rigorous anatomical epistemology and an often sophisticated (but perforce limited) set of physiological arguments Part One surveys the medical and philosophical past in which the study of the...
Springer, 2017. — 62 p. This brief traces the story of one of our most common medicines – aspirin. On a journey involving science, diverse characters, shady business deals, innovative advertising and good old-fashioned luck, Rooney and Campbell describe how aspirin was developed and marketed on a global scale. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, the authors...
Gießen, 2003. — 177 p. Language: German. The dissertation for the degree of doctor in the field of dental treatment examined the life of the German doctor K.O. von Aiken (1873-1960) and his role in the development of otolaryngology. Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Zahnmedizin des Fachbereichs Medizin der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen....
MacMillan, 1984. — 310 p. Electricity Becomes a Science First Steps in Electrotherapy The Discovery of a New Form of Electricity Electromagnetism, Electrodynamics, and First Medical Applications of Varying Currents Duchenne De Boulogne: Electrical Stimulation and Progress in Functional Anatomy, Clinical Medicine, and Electrotherapy The Rise of Electrophysiology The Development...
Grolier Educational, 1997. — 110 p. — ISBN: 0-7172-7681-3. Discusses notable discoveries in medical history, including acupuncture, corneal transplants, and oral vaccination.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011. — 564 p. An Overview of Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine. History of Greco-Arab and Islamic Medicine. Herbal Medicine. The Arab–Islamic Roots of Western Medicine. Contributions of Arab and Islamic Scholars to Modern Pharmacology. Natural Drugs in Greco-Arabic and Islamic Medicine. Method of Therapy in Greco-Arab and Islamic Medicine. Commonly...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 726 p. — ISBN: 978-0231179942 From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern Buddhist...
University of Hawaii Press, 2020. — 264 p. From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of...
Translated with introduction and commentary by Mark J. Schiefsky. — Leiden: Brill, 2005. — 432 p. The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine, a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical practice on principles drawn from natural philosophy. This volume presents an up-to-date Greek text of On Ancient Medicine,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 578 p. This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 578 p. This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. — 442 p. — ISBN: 0-306-48094-8. Continuity, Change, and Challenge in African Medicine Medicine in Ancient Egypt Medicine in Ancient China Ayurveda Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Tibetan Medicine Traditional Thai Medicine Oriental Medicine in Korea Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America Traditional Aboriginal...
W. W. Norton, 2018. — 288 p. A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis. Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not...
World Scientific Publishing, 2024. — 822 p. — ISBN: 978-981-12-8710-7. Traditional medicine plays a crucial role in maintaining health, diagnosing diseases, and providing treatment. The World Health Organization's Global Report on Traditional and Complementary Medicine 2019 highlights the increasing recognition of traditional and complementary medicine in national health...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 2018. — 518 p. — ISBN: 3319650963. This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind. Individual chapters present information...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 2018. — 518 p. — ISBN: 3319650963. This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind. Individual chapters present information...
Springer, 2015. — 1077 p. This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing...
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 495 p. In 'Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina' a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE.0New analysis is offered, both of the dominant...
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 266 p. Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical...
Springer, 2015. — 223 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 43). By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China most people were unable to afford a doctor, even in the unlikely case that one lived near their village and was willing to treat peasants. What did they...
This monograph is dedicated to the significant success of the Soviet medicine during the Great Patriotic War. With simple words are presented all aspects of these remarkable achievements in different branches of the medicine science. The exposition of the monograph is substantiated with facts and detailed information. Ohio, United States of America. Foreign Translation...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 248 p. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine — sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations,...
Diane Publishing Company, 2010. — 226 p. From its introduction to Britain in 1846 until well into the 1860s, the practice of aneasthesia was controversial. The prevailing religious and medical orthodoxies were so challenged by the anaesthetic process that operations continued to be performed without it, while an intense public debate raged. Victorians had to rethink concepts of...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. — 599 p. A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden...
Springer, 2019. — 457 p. — (Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 31). — ISBN: 978-3-030-28206-6. Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and infects approximately 75 million individuals worldwide. It is also one of the major causes of liver cancer and liver transplants. The elucidation of the HCV genome, and the development of a whole cell system to study...
Springer, 2019. — 493 p. — (Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 32). — ISBN: 978-3-030-28399-5. Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and infects approximately 75 million individuals worldwide. It is also one of the major causes of liver cancer and liver transplants. The elucidation of the HCV genome, and the development of a whole cell system to study...
Pen & Sword History, 2018. — 192 p. In 9th century England Bishop Alfheah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald's book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA where modern antibiotics have failed. Within a few months of this discovery a whole new...
Singapore: Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2023. — 694 p. The COVID-19 pandemic provides stark evidence of the importance of medicine on a global scale. However, revisiting the influenza pandemic of 1918 provided a perspective as we searched for a viable vaccine and instituted public health measures. This shows that medical knowledge is an accumulative process extending to the past...
Basel: Karger, 2016. — 253 p. Interest in the history of neurological science has increased significantly during the last decade, but the significance of war has been overlooked in related research. In contrast, this book highlights war as a factor of progress in neurological science. Light is shed on this little-known topic through accounts given by neurologists in war,...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 249 p. This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources. In...
New York: Springer, 2019. — 155 p. This book brings into sharp relief the extent to which the medical profession has enabled or participated in actions that are at moral crossroads. Physical and psychological abuse and violations of medical codes have already been brought to light by concerned bioethicists responding to ethical lapses of the “war on terror.” This book goes to...
Imperial College Press, 2012. — 384 p. This book brings together in one volume fifteen Nobel Prize-winning discoveries that have had the greatest impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine during the 20th century and up to the present time. Its overall aim is to enlighten, entertain and stimulate. This is especially so for those who are involved in or...
Ariel, 2016. — ISBN10: 8434424967, ISBN13: 978-8434424968. El siglo de los cirujanos comenzó el 16 de octubre de 1846, cuando se practicó la primera operación sin dolor, gracias a la anestesia, en el Massachussetts General Hospital. Durante los cien años que siguieron a esa fecha histórica, la cirugía dio grandes pasos para liberar a la humanidad del dolor, las infecciones y la...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. — 295 p. Introduction: Devices, Designs and the History of Technology in Medicine. Bones in Lancashire: Towards Long-term Contextual Analysis of Medical Technology. Mechanizing Medicine: Medical Innovations and the Birmingham Voluntary Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. Private Laboratories and Medical Expertise in Boston Circa 1900....
Brill, 2008. — 384 p. Drawing on philological studies, social history and anthropology, this book offers the first extended study of the recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. It examines the links between oral and written traditions in the transmission of ancient pharmacological knowledge.
Chicago Review Press, 2016. — 336 p. Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were nothing but a healing force in action? Metchnikoff’s daring theory of immunity — that voracious...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. — 234 p. This fascinating guide to medical education introduces the reader to the historical development of this important subject through 100 powerful images from the prestigious Wellcome Library Collection that highlight key figures in the field and innovations that have taken place, not just in the recent past but over the centuries. The readable...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 225 p. Neurological history claims its earliest origins in the 17th century with Thomas Willis's publication of Anatomy of the Brain, coming fully into fruition as a field in the late 1850s as medical technology and advancements allowed for in depth study of the brain. However, many of the foundations in neurology can find the seed of...
Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2000. — 64 p. ISBN13: 978-0-7894-6989-2 (ALB), ISBN13: 978-0-7894-6296-1 (PLC). Discover the battle against epidemics — from the Black Death and smallpox to the modern superbug. For as along as people have lived together in communities, infectious disease has been a part of everyday life. The fascinating story of disease-causing microbes, bacteria,...
Brill, 2017. — 460 p. The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease, through 11 case studies from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine. Topics address the role of analogy and metaphor as features of...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 293 p. Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the...
Springer, 2015. — 349 p. — (Perspectives in Physiology) — ISBN: 978-1-4939-2361-8. This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. It provides a first-hand chronicle of the advancements made in respiratory physiology starting with Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology. The volume covers every aspect of the...
New York: Springer, 2007. — 372 p. No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine. This volume explores neuroscience and reviews developments in anatomy, physiology, and medicine in the era some call the Age of Reason, and others the Enlightenment. Topics include how neuroscience...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2014. — 333 p. This book examines the role of the doctor in war, with reference to the Western front 1914-1918. It examines the system that was developed for recruiting medical officers, highlighting the tensions between civil and military needs, and the BMA's determination to protect the interests of the profession. Separate chapters deal with the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 412 p. Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often...
N.-Y.: Psychology Press, 2014. - 400 p. A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in prehistoric times, and progressing to the twentieth century with the development of Modern Neuroscience. This is the first time a history of the brain...
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2010. – 448 p. The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next year) by a public health campaign. Smallpox was a great leveller and the people who encountered it came from all sections of society and from across the planet. All...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 313 p. Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a neglected area. Medical historians have tended to focus on maternal mortality and professional conflicts between midwives rather than on the unborn, while among the social scientists demographers and epidemiologists have until recently devoted most of their...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 254 p. For 150 years, Down Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down Syndrome is a common disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. — 248 p. From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of...
Greenwood, 2012. — 251 p. Early medical practices are not just a historical curiosity, but real stories about people and health that may teach us much about the 21st century. This intriguing volume offers a comparative examination of early medicine and health care in regions as varied as ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, the Islamic world, and medieval...
Greenwood, 2012. — 251 p. Early medical practices are not just a historical curiosity, but real stories about people and health that may teach us much about the 21st century. This intriguing volume offers a comparative examination of early medicine and health care in regions as varied as ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, the Islamic world, and medieval...
New York: Routledge, 2016. — 261 p. Pharmacy has become an integral part of our lives. Nearly half of all 300 million Americans take at least one prescription drug daily, accounting for $250 billion per year in sales in the US alone. And this number doesn't even include the over-the-counter medications or health aids that are taken. How did this practice become such an...
Clarendon Press, 1998. - 350 p. The Language of the Physicians who Produce. Spiritual Texts. Medicine as a Vehicle for Religious Speculation. Medicine for the Preachers. Medicine and Religion: Between Competition and Cooperation. Appendix I. Medical Analogies in Giovanni da San. Gimignano, Summa de exemplis et rerum similitudinibus. locuplentissima (Antwerp, 1583). Appendix II....
In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2019. — 400 p. This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than...
New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. — 340 p. "The book is recommended for anybody interested in Vedic religion, folk medicine in general, or the Indian medical tradition, and it will form the basis for future research in early Indian medicine." --Hartmut Scharfe, The Journal of Asian Studies Religious Medicine: The History and Evolution of Indian Medicine outlines the history and...
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