History of medicine books

A first-aid manual based on the practices of the common people of Southern China during the mid-19th century discusses treatment for cases that seem hopeless and prevention of epidemic diseases.

Recounts efforts of Rockefeller Foundation in establishing biomedical programs across the globe in the first half of the 20th century.

* 'In every generation there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy' Ian Hacking

Discussing topics such as medical ethics, diagnostic explanations of illness and disease, matters of sex and gender, the ancient division between body and soul, interpretations of madness and melancholia, and methods of medical...

Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Contributors Include Norman Goodall, Gerald Kennedy, Joseph Manton, And Many Others.

A wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine

Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scientific papers and philosophical treatises to explore the relationship of science...

International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the transfer of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources...

A story of family rivalry, drunken policemen and bungling coroners, THE INHERITORS POWDER reveals the fear surrounding arsenic poisoning in Victorian Britain and the hunt for a test to prove it. THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER meets...

In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. In this title, the author tells the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and...

This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland....

The term vitamine was first used 101 years ago in 1912. What were later to be known as vitamin-deficiency diseases, such as scurvy, beriberi, night blindness, xeropthalmia, pellagra, pernicious anemia and rickets, had plagued...

An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health.

Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials.

A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.

A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.

New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe.

A provocative study that explores medical, social, cultural, and aesthetic customs and practices of treating the dead body in Sweden in an era of modernization.

This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun. This title charts the rise of the yeoman's son who demolished beliefs held by anatomists since...

In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. This title tells the story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison - known only as H...

When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement....

Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and neurologist Walter Freeman, The Lobotomy Letters/ gives an account of the...