History 100

Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement Award Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s exper……続きを見る

Old Potions, New Bottles is a study of how indigenous medical learning and practices were recast and reformulated with the coming of western medicine and western medical ideas through colonial rule.……続きを見る

Psychotherapy across distance and time, from Freud’s treatments by mail to crisis hotlines, radio call-ins, chatbots, and Zoom sessions. Therapy has long understood itself as taking place in a room,……続きを見る

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Z……続きを見る

Detrás de cada fármaco se esconde una historia. Puede ser la de un investigador excéntrico que resultó ser un genio, un momento decisivo en la historia geopolítica, un nuevo avance tecnológico o un ……続きを見る

Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the attention, care, and understanding they need at th……続きを見る

Instant #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller From the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Palettaーthe definitive account of the Trump administration’s tragic mis……続きを見る

Famous People and the Germs that Harmed Them ties together history, culture, science, medicine and famous people and looks at each of them through the lens of infectious disease. As of this writing,……続きを見る

This book explores the thoroughly human dimension of the health care and prevention responses to the HIV crisis in the UK, and the impact that such initiatives had on the progression of the epidemic……続きを見る

Quando se trata de antigas ciências médicas, os mal-entendidos e a confusão prevalecem. Diz-se que tudo e qualquer coisa são a cura para isto ou aquilo. Nessa confusão, muitos oportunistas, incluind……続きを見る

La ciencia –a partir del Medioevo tardío– y la tecnología –desde el inicio de la era industrial– pasaron por etapas signadas por la ideología de cada época. En ese devenir histórico, la producción y……続きを見る

This book is a history of medicines and the commercial actors that make and sell them, covering the 140 years since the modern pharmaceutical industry came into being. It is written in a lively and ……続きを見る

There is in this slim treatise one message given in 1921, exactly one hundred years ago, which if followed may well have limited today's pandemic of diabetes. The aphorisms, selected by the author, ……続きを見る

La storia dei medici della famiglia Saraval è probabilmente quella che più mette in comunicazione la medicina veneziana con quella italiana e quella internazionale, facendoci comprendere quanto poco……続きを見る

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study. From deba……続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The United States Narcotic Farm opened in 1935 in the rolling hills of Kentucky horse country. Portrayed in the press as everything from a "New Deal for the drug addict" to a "million-dollar flophou……続きを見る

What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awakening, and her journ……続きを見る

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200–1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison……続きを見る

This classic edition includes a new foreword by former APA President Antonio E. Puente which primes the reader for a unique, bold and lively account of the history of psychology that remains relevan……続きを見る

Freud was addicted to cocaine and nicotine, Jung was psychotic for several years, and Margaret Mead remained closeted throughout her lifetime. Yet, adversities notwithstanding, they all made monumen……続きを見る