Scientific Background To Medicine

Author : Alisha Rankin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317058328

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Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 by Alisha Rankin Pdf

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the human body, and new facts about the way nature worked. These 'secrets' became popular items of commerce and trade, as the quest for new and exclusive bits of information met the vibrant early modern marketplace. Whether disclosed widely in print or kept more circumspect in manuscripts, secrets helped drive an expanding interest in acquiring knowledge throughout early modern Europe. Bringing together international scholars, this volume provides a pan-European and interdisciplinary overview on the topic. Each essay offers significant new interpretations of the role played by secrets in their area of specialization. Chapters address key themes in early modern history and the history of medicine, science and technology including: the possession, circulation and exchange of secret knowledge across Europe; alchemical secrets and laboratory processes; patronage and the upper-class market for secrets; medical secrets and the emerging market for proprietary medicines; secrets and cosmetics; secrets and the body and finally gender and secrets.

Author : Vincanne Adams,Mona Schrempf,Sienna R. Craig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845459741

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Medicine Between Science and Religion by Vincanne Adams,Mona Schrempf,Sienna R. Craig Pdf

There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.

Author : W. F. Bynum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052127205X

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Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century by W. F. Bynum Pdf

W. F. Bynum argues that 'modern' medicine is built upon foundations established between 1800 and the beginning of World War I.

Author : John Hudson Tiner
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614581512

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Exploring the History of Medicine by John Hudson Tiner Pdf

From surgery to vaccines, man has made great strides in the field of medicine. Quality of life has improved dramatically in the last few decades alone, and the future is bright. But students must not forget that God provided humans with minds and resources to bring about these advances. A biblical perspective of healing and the use of medicine provides the best foundation for treating diseases and injury. In Exploring the World of Medicine, author John Hudson Tiner reveals the spectacular discoveries that started with men and women who used their abilities to better mankind and give glory to God. The fascinating history of medicine comes alive in this book, providing students with a healthy dose of facts, mini-biographies, and vintage illustrations. Includes chapter tests and index.

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Diseases
ISBN : 0974946656

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A Brief History of Disease, Science, and Medicine by Michael Kennedy Pdf

"In 23 informative chapters, Kennedy enlightens readers with scientific articles marking historical milestones in medical science. Written for medical students, young physicians, nurses, and anyone else interested in a broad view of the evolution of the medical profession, it includes 19 illustrations, over 500 footnotes and a 40-page index to assist the reader in searching for specific events and people from the past."--Book jacket.

Author : Roger Kenneth French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521007615

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Medicine Before Science by Roger Kenneth French Pdf

An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Clinical pharmacology
ISBN : 0632055677

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Scientific Background to Medicine 1 by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Nick Bryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521747622

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Introduction to the Science of Medical Imaging by R. Nick Bryan Pdf

This landmark text from world-leading radiologist describes and illustrates how imaging techniques are created, analyzed and applied to biomedical problems.

Author : Frances Lee Bernstein,Christopher Burton,Dan Healey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501756627

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Soviet Medicine by Frances Lee Bernstein,Christopher Burton,Dan Healey Pdf

Thanks to the opening of archives and the forging of exchanges between Russian and Western scholars interested in the history of medicine, it is now possible to write new forms of social and political history in the Soviet medical field. Using the lenses of critical social histories of healthcare and medical science, and looking at both new material from Russian archives and interviews with those who experienced the Soviet health system, the contributors to this volume explore the ways experts and the Soviet state radically reshaped medical provision after the Revolution of 1917. Soviet Medicine presents the work of an international group of leading scholars. Twelve essays—treating subjects that span the 74-year history of the Soviet Union—cover such diverse topics as how epidemiologists handled plague on the Soviet borderlands in the revolutionary era, how venereologists fighting sexually transmitted disease struggled to preserve the patient's right to secrecy, and how Soviet forensic experts falsified the evidence of the Katyn Forest massacre of 1940. This important volume demonstrates the crucial role played by medical science, practice, and culture in the shaping of a modern Soviet Union and illustrates how the study of Soviet medical history can benefit historians of medicine, science, the Soviet Union, and social and gender historians.

Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351219525

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The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine by Andrew Cunningham Pdf

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous identities of present attitudes and activities with past ones, and rarely question them; the contention here is that this gives us a false image of the very things in the past that we went to look for.

Author : Barbara Hahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186804

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Technology in the Industrial Revolution by Barbara Hahn Pdf

Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781476784854

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The Laws of Medicine by Siddhartha Mukherjee Pdf

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

Author : John V. Pickstone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0719059941

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Ways of Knowing by John V. Pickstone Pdf

This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine.

Author : Hugh Richard Slotten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0199766665

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology by Hugh Richard Slotten Pdf

Science, medicine, and technology have become increasingly important to the average individual in modern society. The importance of these three fields is in many ways one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Understanding their history is essential for educated individuals. Science, medicine, and technology are not static endeavors but processes, bodies of knowledge, tools, and techniques that are constantly growing and changing. The entries in this encyclopedia explore the changing character of science, medicine, and technology in the United States; the key individuals, institutions, and organizations responsible for major developments; and the concepts, practices, and processes underlying these changes. Especially since the early decades of the twentieth century, American science, medicine, and technology have played dominant roles internationally. Entries explore distinctive characteristics of American institutions and culture that help explain this development.At the same time, the encyclopedia situates specific events, theories, practices, and institutions in their proper historical context and explores their impact on American society and culture. Entries are written by the experts in the field. Students not only from the humanities and social sciences but also from the sciences and the medical sciences should be attracted to the broad-ranging and in-depth analysis in the encyclopedia.

Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781512818680

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The Development of Modern Medicine by Richard Harrison Shryock Pdf

The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity. Starting with the seventeenth century, the author analyzes the defeats as well as the triumphs that medicine has gone through to reach its present usefulness.