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Author : Pietro Corsi,Paul Weindling
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015034565021
Author : Joy S. Martyniuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medical libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015009527683
Author : Joy S. Martyniuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:31951D01228658Y
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393242447
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to the more recent threats of AIDS and Ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book "has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field" (The Lancet).
Author : W. F. Bynum,Roy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1833 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136110368
This is a comprehensive work of reference which covers all aspects of medical history and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. 72 essays are written by internationally respected scholars from many different areas of expertise.
Author : Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521475643
This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Its influence spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine. This book charts the influence of this tradition, examining it in its social and historical context. It is essential reading as a synthesis for all students of the history of medicine.
Author : Andrew Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351878951
In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific publishing has mushroomed, developed new forms, and the academic discipline and popular appreciation of the history of science have grown apace. This fourth edition discusses these changes and ponders the implications of developments in publishing at the end of the twentieth century, while concentrating its gaze upon the dissemination of scientific ideas and knowledge from Antiquity to the industrial age. In this shift of focus it departs from previous editions, and for the first time a chapter on Islamic science is included. Recurrent themes in several of the ten essays in the present volume are the definition of ’science’ itself, and its transmutation by publishing media and the social context. Two essays on the collecting of scientific books provide a counterpoint, and the book is grounded on a rigorous chapter on bibliographies. The timely publication of Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors comes at the coincidence of the advent of electronic publishing and the millennium, a dramatic moment at which to take stock.
Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134262946
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author : Robin Leslie Anderson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122847515
For courses in the history of medicine. This reader gives students in a history of medicine class, or the general reading public, a broad selection of readings about the many ways that disease and trauma have affected human populations over time. It draws from both primary and secondary sources to give a dual perspective of a) what was written at the time of various events, and b) what modern scholars have been able to ascertain from historical evidence. It has a broad scope both in time and space, covering materials from earliest Man to contemporary bioethical problems, and contains materials from India, China, Latin America, and the Muslim worlds as well as Europe and the United States. Rather than simply looking at great medical discoveries, it is purposely focused on how trauma and disease have been daily companions of human existence. It fills a serious void in teaching materials in the history of medicine by taking a world perspective, using a combination of primary and secondary sources, covering a huge time span and putting emphasis on the problems created by medical progress, and most importantly, focusing on the effect that medical practices have had on ordinary people throughout history.
Author : Roger Cooter,Rémi Piet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349196067
A collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521002524
An authoritative and accessible illustrated introduction to medical history.
Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134450848
The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third edition has been radically recast. Over half the entries are new or have been entirely rewritten, and most of the balance have been substantially revised. Written by an international team of contributors, the Encyclopedia offers a global perspective on the key issues within the social sciences. Some 500 entries cover a variety of enduring and newly vital areas of study and research methods. Experts review theoretical debates from neo-evolutionism and rational choice theory to poststructuralism, and address the great questions that cut across the social sciences. What is the influence of genes on behaviour? What is the nature of consciousness and cognition? What are the causes of poverty and wealth? What are the roots of conflict, wars, revolutions and genocidal violence? This authoritative reference work is aimed at anyone with a serious interest in contemporary academic thinking about the individual in society.
Author : Sabine Frühstück
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520939646
Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of Asian communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to self-defense, Japan's armed forces are equipped with advanced weapons technology and the world's third-largest military budget. Sabine Frühstück draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military. As the first scholar permitted to participate in basic SDF training, she offers a firsthand look at an army trained for combat that nevertheless serves nontraditional military needs.
Author : Stephen Bann
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0948462604
Deals with the place of the monster in Western
Author : Anne L. Grauer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119111634
A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology. Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology, integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understand biological and disease processes throughout human history Demonstrates how paleopathology sheds light on the past through the analysis of human and non-human skeletal materials, mummified remains and preserved tissue Integrates scientific advances in multiple fields that contribute to the understanding of ancient and historic diseases, such as epidemiology, histology, radiology, parasitology, dentistry, and molecular biology, as well as archaeological, archival and historical research. Highlights cultural processes that have an impact on the evolution of illness, death and dying in human populations, including subsistence strategies, human environmental adaptations, the effects of malnutrition, differential access to resources, and interpersonal and intercultural violence