Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine

Author : Michael Worboys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521773027
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spreading Germs written by Michael Worboys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession.

Author : Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487509170
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Medicine, Third Edition written by Jacalyn Duffin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship and new events in major fields of medical endeavor.

Author : Sir Arthur Newsholme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Preventive Medicine written by Sir Arthur Newsholme and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Huisman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801885488
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating Medical History written by Frank Huisman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With diverse constitutions, a multiplicity of approaches, styles, and aims is both expected and desired. This volume locates medical history within itself and within larger historiographic trends, providing a springboard for discussions about what the history of medicine should be, and what aims it should serve."--Jacket

Author : Erwin H. Ackerknecht
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419556
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Medicine written by Erwin H. Ackerknecht and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay. 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 of medicine. Covering the broad sweep of discoveries from parasitic worms to bacilli and x-rays, and highlighting physicians and scientists from Hippocrates and Galen to Pasteur, Koch, and Roentgen, Ackerknecht narrates Western and Eastern civilization’s work at identifying and curing disease. He follows these discoveries from the library to the bedside, hospital, and laboratory, illuminating how basic biological sciences interacted with clinical practice over time. But his story is more than one of laudable scientific and therapeutic achievement. Ackerknecht also points toward the social, ecological, economic, and political conditions that shape the incidence of disease. Improvements in health, Ackerknecht argues, depend on more than laboratory knowledge: they also require that we improve the lives of ordinary men and women by altering social conditions such as poverty and hunger. This revised and expanded edition includes a new foreword and concluding biographical essay by Charles E. Rosenberg, Ackerknecht’s former student and a distinguished historian of medicine. A new bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer explores recent scholarship in the history of medicine.

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199546495
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine written by Mark Jackson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.

Author : William G. Rothstein
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580461271
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Health and the Risk Factor written by William G. Rothstein and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A risk factor is anything that increases the risk of disease in an individual.

Author : Horst H. Freyhofer
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820467979
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuremberg Medical Trial written by Horst H. Freyhofer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freyhofer gives the reader the opportunity to follow the exchange between prosecutors and defendants as well as the final reasoning of the court."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Elizabeth Fee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Medical History written by Elizabeth Fee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of this century, Henry Ernest Sigerist was widely regarded as the world's leading historian of medicine. A brilliant teacher and lecturer, Sigerist made medical history exciting and relevant for a whole generation of young physicians, medical students, historians, and the general public. A Marxist sympathizer and advocate of socialized medicine, he also had an enormous and controversial influence on the medical politics of his time. In Making Medical History historians Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown bring together individuals from various disciplines, many of whom knew Henry Sigerist, all of whom help to illuminate why, thirty-five years after his death, he continues to be revered by many public health professionals and medical historians. Sigerist came to the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine in 1932, arriving from Leipzig to succeed William Henry Welch as director. During Sigerist's tenure at Hopkins, his many accomplishments included founding the leading scholarly journal in the field, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine; transforming the American Association for the History of Medicine into a professional organization; and recruiting and mentoring such luminaries as Owsei Temkin, Ludwig Edelstein, and Erwin Ackerknecht. Organized into three main sections--biographical, historiographical, and political--Making Medical History includes discussions of Sigerist's influence on the history of medicine, medical sociology, and health policy. Today, as the American health care system undergoes tremendous structural changes, Sigerist's work and vision are newly relevant, and his dramatically effective presentation of medical history willcome as a revelation to a new generation of readers. Contributors: Nora Sigerist Beeson, Marcel H. Bickel, Theodore M. Brown, Leslie A. Falk, Elizabeth Fee, John F. Hutchinson, Ingrid Kstner, Walter J. Lear, Michael R. McVaugh, Genevieve Miller, Milton I. Roemer, Owsei Temkin, Ilza Veith, and Heinrich von Staden.

Author : Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081475936X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Medicine written by Jeanne E Abrams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America. Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the Founding Fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America. Historian Jeanne E. Abrams’s Revolutionary Medicine refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and James and Dolley Madison away from politics to the perspective of sickness, health, and medicine. For the Founders, republican ideals fostered a reciprocal connection between individual health and the “health” of the nation. Studying the encounters of these American Founders with illness and disease, as well as their viewpoints about good health, not only provides a richer and more nuanced insight into their lives, but also opens a window into the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, which is at once intimate, personal, and first hand. Today’s American public health initiatives have their roots in the work of America’s Founders, for they recognized early on that government had compelling reasons to shoulder some new responsibilities with respect to ensuring the health and well-being of its citizenry—beginning the conversation about the country’s state of medicine and public healthcare that continues to be a work in progress.