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 soliciti...Daugiau...
Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century. Yet despite growing knowledge about the disease and interventions that would slow its spre...Daugiau...
What does it mean to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement? Are we on the brink of transcending our biological limitations, or are we losing touch...Daugiau...
A groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the female struggle to govern their ability to reproduce.Born moves around ove...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034052)
The remarkable (The Telegraph) life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds, now available in paperback Veteran journalists Sim...Daugiau...
Examines how back-alley abortion rhetoric shaped public memory, reproductive politics, and advocacy in the fight for abortion rights.How did three words come to carry the weight of Americas abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abort...Daugiau...
Since antiquity, doctors have always been required to be vigilant (i.e., extremely attentive), particularly when it comes to any symptoms exhibited and/or complained of by the patient. As outlined in the Hippocratic Oath since antiquit...Daugiau...
Abstract. This book is intended to examine the origins and development of the revolutionary new medical field of gene therapy. Understanding the history of gene therapy depends on an appreciation of the concept of disease, how it evolved in response...Daugiau...
The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the parts start to fail? Meet the scientists facing the challenge...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface by Ian Kennedy, this is a hard-hitting and penetrating investigation behind the faēade of late 20th Century medical thinking....Daugiau...
This study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work Cause et cure and visionary work Scivias. Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively, see...Daugiau...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of societys basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuiti...Daugiau...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of societys basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continui...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245247)
Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods....Daugiau...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953335)
Understanding Jonathan Swifts medical and literary lifeThe Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary criticism to examine the chronic afflictions suffered by the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, investigating not o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953328)
Understanding Jonathan Swifts medical and literary lifeThe Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary criticism to examine the chronic afflictions suffered by the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, investigating not o...Daugiau...
This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience within a wider understanding of human nature, contrastin...Daugiau...
This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience within a wider understanding of human nature, contrastin...Daugiau...
From childrens visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture. It explores what it was like to live in a body that was situated be...Daugiau...
From childrens visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture. It explores what it was like to live in a body that was situated be...Daugiau...
This 2nd edition sheds new light on the curious side of Medical History. Carl Sagan said: You have to know the past to understand the present. This collection of 100 short stories, written by experts in the field, inspires curiosity and provides...Daugiau...
Revises customary views about the relationship between medicine, cosmology, and philosophy in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE through a fresh analysis of the works of the cosmological doctors, such as On Breaths, On Flesh, and On Regimen....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1983 this book examines the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form through one generation of general hospital nurses, Voluntary and Poor Law based, who were recruited and trained between 1881 and 1914. As...Daugiau...
In recent years there has been an immense growth in interest in the history of nursing, both from nurses themselves, who are keen to discover the roots of their practice and profession, and on the part of historians and sociologists of health care...Daugiau...
This volume brings together essays examining a wide range of topics related to early modern medicine, including the notion of climacterical years, which recurred every seventh year and shaped early modern...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512828207)
The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. Before legalization lowered the cost, one million women each year collectively paid upward of 750 million for abortions. In this illuminating book, Katherine Parkin reveals the s...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196374)
The first study of its kind, Trafzers work fills gaps in Native American, medical, and Southern California history. It informs our understanding of the working relationship between indigenous and Western medical traditions and practices as it c...Daugiau...
