History

An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body's inner senses The years between 1833 and 1945 fundamentally transformed science's understanding of the body's inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the...

Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807021033Author Judith Walzer LeavittFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Bill Hayes pays eloquent tribute to two masterpieces: the human body and the book detailing it. With passion and wit, Hayes explores the significance of 'Gray's Anatomy' and explains why it came to symbolize a turning point in medical history. As a...

Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501163753Author Ira RutkowFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250105400Author James ForresterFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During the later nineteenth century, British public health officials transformed...

How did doctors make a living? Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice, beginning with the first voluntary hospital in 1720 and ending with national health insurance in 1911. It looks at public...

The rise-and fall-of research into the therapeutic potential of LSD.After LSD arrived in the United States in 1949, the drug's therapeutic promise quickly captured the interests of psychiatrists. In the decade that followed, modern psychopharmacology was...

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their...

Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stories of pioneering researchers, Altman offers a history of many of the most important medical advancements in...

Molecular biology has come to dominate our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the decades following World War II, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge was a world-renowned centre of this emerging discipline...

Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270304Author Todd TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 591gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

People are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations as well. In response, many policy makers and scholars are preparing for a global crisis of...

When cannabis tincture was withdrawn from the medical establishment in the UK in 1973, cannabis became regulated solely as an illicit drug. Within a decade cannabis-based drugs were back in the clinic. The UK is one of the biggest producers of medicinal...

From the days of Hippocratic 'bedside medicine' to the advent of the CAT scanner, doctors have always relied on their senses in diagnosing and treating disease. Medical education, from the apprenticeship, to the rise of the laboratory, has sought to...

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science. Ethics boards have become obligatory passage points in today's medical science, and we forget how novel they really...

This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for-and skepticism of-electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679760092Author Sherwin B. NulandFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 479gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' in recent...

A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women.Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history...

By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national...

How were the medical services organised in Britain in the years before the National Health Service? This short study looks at developments in hospital and primary medical care before World War Two focusing on service delivery and 'the sufferer's agenda'...

The essays in Where's the Evidence? focus on problems ignored. This book is a unique collection of critical andw controversial essays on intractable ethical issues and evidence-based problems in modern medicine. Most, but notr therapeutic disasters...

This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416538417Author Ira RutkowFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063157613Author Paul A OffitFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

A new model of health emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939. Centered on the working body, organized around the concept of efficiency, and grounded in scientific understandings of human labor, scientists, politicians, and capitalists of the era...

Examining the ideas and attitudes that encourage scientists to experiment on living creatures, what their justifications are, and how these have changed over time.Experimentation on animals-particularly humans-is often assumed to be a uniquely modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628450842Author Florence NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'Rapoport has written a remarkable family memoir about growing up in the loftiest of Soviet Kremlin medical circles, where her father (Yakov Rapoport) was a distinguished pathologist, a man of scientific brilliance, technical expertise, great humor, and...

Medicine has always had its historians; but until recently it was a history written by and for practitioners. Charles Rosenberg has been one of the key figures in recent decades in opening up the history of medicine beyond parochial concerns and instead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805066227Author Pete DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.Book InformationISBN 9780521030953Author Dr. Andrew...

Christopher Hamlin's magisterial work engages a common experience-fever-in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of...

For centuries, many people have been convinced of the healing nature of hot mineral springs. The Romans constructed elaborate bathing facilities throughout their empire to utilise these waters. Immersion was reputed to cure a large variety of illnesses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966073Author M J EadieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 574g