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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their inexorable link to sex, were so stigmatizing that it was commonly called 'the secret disease.' How...

Great innovations take place within great institutions. Founded in 1819, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Canada's oldest hospitals and has created a nurturing environment for early Canadian innovations in heart surgery. The Heartbeat of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515088626Author Ulf SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

One of the first medical ethnographies to be written on contemporary Vietnam, Familiar Medicine examines the practical ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their bodies, illness, and medicine. Traditional knowledge and practices have...

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the...

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Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. In this fascinating new history, Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to family life. Information was...

Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America's complex histories.Book InformationISBN 9781421454054Author Heather VranaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

Historian Jesse F. Ballenger traces the emergence of senility as a cultural category from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, a period in which Alzheimer's disease became increasingly associated with the terrifying prospect of losing one's self...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826521248Author Arthur J. AmmannFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era,...

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically...

An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and...

"Who Killed the Queen?" is the first sustained investigation ever attempted into the mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds in Canada during the mid-1990s, showing the effects that the loss of 20 per cent of beds has had on health care across the...

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Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held enthusiasm for medical progress escapes more...

Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held enthusiasm for medical progress escapes more...

A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world.A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world.About the AuthorCynthia Comacchio,...

James Loeb (1867–1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in...

An anthology of nineteenth-century literature about medicine and medical issues.Medical Progress and Social Reality is an anthology of nineteenth-century literature on medicine and medical practice. Situated at the interdisciplinary juncture of medicine,...

Explores the impact of changing medical practices on ordinary people in nineteenth-century America. How does the experience of sickness, death, and loss change over time? We know that the incidence and virulence of particular diseases have varied from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsHistorians of medicine and social historians will welcome the translation and republication of a popular and important 16th-century French medical treatise on pregnancy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsLaurent Joubert was one of the most important medical humanists of the later 16th century, serving as counselor and physician to successive French kings as chancellor of...

Much has changed in the lives of children, and in the health care provided to them, over the past century. Formative Years explores how children's lives have become increasingly medicalized, traces the emergence of the fields of pediatrics and child...

A detailed study of Samuel Hitch’s life, the Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum and the establishment of The Royal College of Psychiatrists.Book InformationISBN 9781854571441Author Dr Peter CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Clinical...

This book is designed to elucidate the evolution of understanding of the heart's electrical system, spanning the discovery of its anatomical structures to subsequent developments in implantable devices and three-dimensional imaging technologies. The...

Nearly nine times as many died from diseases during the American Revolution as did from wounds. Poor diet, inadequate sanitation and sometimes a lack of basic medical care caused such diseases as dysentery, scurvy, typhus, smallpox and others to...

Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant...

The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and...

This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological...

This book follows two lines of inquiry in understanding nursing ethics in the historical-cultural context of modern China. Firstly, it scrutinizes the prescribed set of moral virtues for nurses in fulfilling their role requirements during different...

Prominent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, and community. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates...

Thomas Robert Malthus's reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first...

Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will...

This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term,...

Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the period from 1500 to 1850. Until now, learned medicine has remained...