Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciti...Loe edasi...
Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century. Yet despite growing knowledge about the disease and interventions that would slow its spre...Loe edasi...
What does it mean to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement? Are we on the brink of transcending our biological limitations, or are we losing touch...Loe edasi...
A groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the female struggle to govern their ability to reproduce.Born moves around ove...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034052)
The remarkable (The Telegraph) life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds, now available in paperback Veteran journalists Sim...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421452289)
Examines how back-alley abortion rhetoric shaped public memory, reproductive politics, and advocacy in the fight for abortion rights.How did three words come to carry the weight of Americas abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abort...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111652894)
Since antiquity, doctors have always been required to be vigilant (i.e., extremely attentive), particularly when it comes to any symptoms exhibited and/or complained of by the patient. As outlined in the Hippocratic Oath since antiquit...Loe edasi...
Abstract. This book is intended to examine the origins and development of the revolutionary new medical field of gene therapy. Understanding the history of gene therapy depends on an appreciation of the concept of disease, how it evolved in response...Loe edasi...
The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the parts start to fail? Meet the scientists facing the challenge...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface by Ian Kennedy, this is a hard-hitting and penetrating investigation behind the façade of late 20th Century medical thinking....Loe edasi...
This study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work Cause et cure and visionary work Scivias. Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively, see...Loe edasi...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society’s basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuiti...Loe edasi...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society’s basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continui...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245247)
Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods....Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953335)
Understanding Jonathan Swift’s medical and literary lifeThe Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary criticism to examine the chronic afflictions suffered by the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, investigating not o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953328)
Understanding Jonathan Swift’s medical and literary lifeThe Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary criticism to examine the chronic afflictions suffered by the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, investigating not o...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience within a wider understanding of human nature, contrastin...Loe edasi...
