The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alche...Daugiau...
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illn...Daugiau...
When a couple plans for a child today, every moment seems precious and unique. Home pregnancy tests promise good news just days after conception, and prospective parents can track the progress of their pregnancy day by day with apps that deliver a st...Daugiau...
Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson
Serija: Disability History
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jan-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526124319)
This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets thronged with the maimed and mutilated. -- ....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Jan-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243611)
An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written re...Daugiau...
This book explores the understudied history of the so-called incurables in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions....Daugiau...
Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession has been reported to be an influential manual for medical ethics in Nazi Germany and is commonly quoted as representing the Nazi viewpoint of the position and responsibilities of the phy...Daugiau...
The remarkable, intertwined histories of neurology, psychiatry, neurosyphilis and hysteria, by the authors of the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole....Daugiau...
Serija: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jan-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438477459)
Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience....Daugiau...
The beginning of cardiac surgery is generally considered to be the successful repair of a wound of the heart that took place on the 7th of September 1896 in Frankfurt am Main. This operation put an end to the widespread belief that nature had s...Daugiau...
This 1752 book (reissued here in its 1753 edition) has probably not received the credit it deserves. Its author, military physician John Pringle, aware that the hospitals designed to treat wounded soldiers were in fact part of the problem, make...Daugiau...
This 1815 book of practical hints by Samuel Tuke, the grandson of William Tuke, the founder of the famous Retreat asylum at York, was intended to guide the potential architects of the planned Wakefield lunatic asylum to offer both inmates and...Daugiau...
Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) practised psychiatry in London. He developed ideas of heredity derived from Darwin and argued strongly for the physical basis of mental illness. This ambitious 1867 book went into several editions and translations. It...Daugiau...
The army surgeon James Dillon Tully (1785-1827) witnessed first-hand the spread of the plague through the Mediterranean in the early nineteenth century and was instrumental in controlling it in Corfu and Cephalonia. This work, first published i...Daugiau...