Catálogo de libros: Historia de la medicina

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  • ’He Went About Doing Good’
    David Elder
    The life of Dr Edward Thomas Wilson of Cheltenham has never been told. Overshadowed both by his son, the Antarctic explorer who perished with Captain Scott at the South Pole, and his brother, renowned for his heroic attempt to rescue General Gordon at Khartoum, his story is intriguingly complex. A municipal pioneer of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he instigated modern medica...
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    29,93 €

  • Health Matters
    George Hill / George J. Hill
    Health Matters proposes an audacious new concept of human history. The author, George J. Hill, is a physician and historian. He argues that the primary goal of humans, from cave dwellers to those in the modern world, has been the search for good health and a long life. The quest for health has been to avoid illness, to treat disease and injuries, and to delay death. Humans were...
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    57,10 €

  • The American Cardiovascular Pandemic
    David Gordon
    As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world. Although cardiovascular disease remains serious an...
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    57,35 €

  • Beyond Nightingale
    Carol Helmstadter
    This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft. ...
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    43,79 €

  • The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles
    Jeremy Agnew
    Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate ...
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    42,62 €

  • Medical histories of Belgium
    Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...
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    52,08 €

  • Performance, Medicine and the Human
    Alex Mermikides
    Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways. London’s theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes - John Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne’s Woycek, while Royal National Theatre produces a novel musical about cancer. At the same time, performance-makers seek to improve our health, using dance to increase mobility for those living...
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    52,50 €

  • Yellow Flags
    Guy Breshears
    When Covid-19 first came into the news there wasn’t much known about it. Thus governments didn’t know how to handle a situation like this. It was mostly trail and error and hope for the best and expect the worst. Even today it often feels this way.This is a look at how the Hong Kong government, by their own written records, responded to Covid-19 and the problems and trials that...
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    62,80 €

  • THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE and THE FATE OF HUMANITY
    Dr. Amir Gendy / DrAmir Gendy
    Can we predict the future by observing the past? It is possible! An observational analytical theory that studies the past patterns and delineates the progression of events to the present time to logically, mathematically, and scientifically predict the future of medicine and the fate of humanity, from the plague of Justinian to the COVID-19 pandemic, from ancient folklore to ro...
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    22,04 €

  • Medicine Is War
    Lorenzo Servitje
    Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor. ...
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    42,96 €

  • Bodies in Doubt
    Elizabeth Reis
    In the summer of 2020, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital apologized to their former intersex patients who endured early childhood surgeries 'normalizing' the appearance of their genitals and agreed to stop performing such procedures until children were old enough to participate in decision-making. In Bodies in Doubt, Elizabeth Reis explains how we arrived at this ...
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    40,68 €

  • Insanity, identity and empire
    Catharine Coleborne
    Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne’s study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. ...
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    36,98 €

  • Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
    Christian Laes
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    29,58 €

  • Navy Corpsmen in the Vietnam War
    Harry Spiller
    The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine Corps--along with many day-to-day, sometimes minute-to-minute recollections of caring for both the wounded and the dead under fi...
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    42,90 €

  • Feeling the strain
    Jill Kirby
    By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. ...
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    36,83 €

  • The Origins of AIDS
    Jacques Pépin
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    95,18 €

  • Vaccines and Bayonets
    Bee Bloeser
    'At a time when vaccines are front-page news and a deadly pandemic is raging across the globe, Bloeser’s memoir makes for riveting reading...a captivating family history and a reminder of how public health campaigns are still inextricably intertwined with politics...'-- Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy magazine'...a closely observed memoir...historically ...
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    21,33 €

  • Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
    This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives. ...
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    168,84 €

  • Sick and Tired
    Emily K. Abel / Emily KAbel
    Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. A...
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    121,98 €

  • Sick and Tired
    Emily K. Abel / Emily KAbel
    Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. A...
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    25,28 €

  • Germs and governance
    This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts. ...
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    169,32 €

  • Intellectual disability
    Patrick McDonagh
    This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. ...
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    36,83 €

  • Popular History
    Stephen Warde Anderson
    An interesting and easy-to-read handbook covering infectious diseases and notable epidemics with an emphasis on historical context. It is intended for a general audience and young readers. It tells you what you want to know and won’t bore you with scientific detail. ...
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    20,51 €

  • Memory Lives On
    Polina Ilieva
    In the fall of 2019 the UCSF Archives & Special Collections, with the support of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, organized an interdisciplinary symposium Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. This event marked the completion of a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project that was led by the UCSF Library in collaboration with the San Francisco Public L...
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    23,72 €

  • More Notable Names in Anaesthesia
    More Notable Names in Anaesthesia edited by Alistair McKenzie is a follow-on volume to Notable Names in Anaesthesia edited by J. Roger Maltby (2002). It includes eponyms used on a daily basis in the practice of anaesthesiology. Some of these in alphabetical order are: Aintree intubation catheter, Heidbrink valve, Luer-lock, PCA, pulse oximeter, Ritchie whistle, Seldinger wire, ...
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    29,40 €

  • A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship
    Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld / Michael R. Kronenfeld / Michael RKronenfeld
    This book covers the history of medical libraries and librarianship from the founding of the Medical Library Association in 1898 to today. The authors present the different stages in the evolution of health science librarianship and conclude with a discussion of the new, digital era of health science libraries. ...
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    170,12 €

  • Medicine Is War
    Lorenzo Servitje
    Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor. ...
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    126,60 €

  • Accounting for health
    Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world. ...
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    156,58 €

  • The Papyrus Ebers
    Cyril P. Bryan / Cyril PBryan
    2021 Reprint of the 1930 Edition.  Illustrated. The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to circa 1550 BC. Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor in the winter of 1873-74 by Georg Ebers. It is currently kept at the library of the University of Leipzig, in Ge...
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    16,72 €

  • The Aesthetics of Senescence
    Andrea Charise
    Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience. ...
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    42,12 €


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