著者:Mona Gleason
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2013年06月01日
What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay ……続きを見る
著者:Eric Kandel
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月27日
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think ab……続きを見る
著者:Rick Flinders MD
出版社: Sonoma County Medical Association
発売日: 2012年05月01日
The Santa Rosa Reader is a personal anthology from the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency by Dr. Rick Flinders, a family physician who trained at the residency and later became its director. The a……続きを見る
著者:S. Nassir Ghaemi
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年07月01日
Lasting happiness comes not from chasing the American dream but from living an authentic lifeーwhich includes despair.
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, i……続きを見る
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'An enthralling read ... fascinating ... the author pieces the jigsaw together in thriller style' - David O'Donoghue, Sunday Business Post
'This biography of aspirin has some crackin……続きを見る
The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theo……続きを見る
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especiall……続きを見る
著者:Sigmund Freud
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年03月13日
If I were asked how one could become a psychoanalyst, I should answer, through the study of his own dreams. - Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalys……続きを見る
Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and phenomenological--have resulted in large part from t……続きを見る
著者:Waltraud Ernst
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年09月27日
This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book reco……続きを見る
The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today
In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s mo……続きを見る
Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting ……続きを見る
"[An] engrossing survey of the history of childbirth." ーStephen Lowman, Washington Post
Making and having babiesーwhat it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliverーhave mystified women and……続きを見る
著者:Heather Webb
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2010年03月30日
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to e……続きを見る
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chan……続きを見る
As a five-year-old, Shelley Fraser is known for mischief.
On Halloween in l949, she fancies her brother's devil costume and persuades her mother to hem it up for her. But her plan to scare the total……続きを見る
Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were ……続きを見る
Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depres……続きを見る
The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine.
Presenting a new way of thinking about these issues, this volume considers risk and ……続きを見る
The remarkable story of a wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine
'The story of Experiment Eleven is amazing, as is its brilliant reporting, narrative verve and……続きを見る
著者:E. C. Spary
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年04月08日
Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old R……続きを見る
Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign that won for British women the right to enter the medical profession. Before taking up this cause she had studied women's education in England, Germany and the Unit……続きを見る
The remarkable career of Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - 216) began as a provincial medic tending to wounded gladiators in Asia Minor. It ended at the very heart of Roman power as one of a small circl……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Burstein
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年05月28日
Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual's inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversa……続きを見る
As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated wi……続きを見る
A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and pr……続きを見る
The recent upsurge of fresh historical research concerning the early years of psychoanalysis has left many professional readers struggling to keep abreast of the latest findings and more than a litt……続きを見る
著者:Lisa Appignanesi
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2009年08月31日
“[A work of] wit, wisdom and richness. . . . A grand tour of derangement, from matricide to anorexia.” ーJohn Leonard, Harper’s
This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the……続きを見る
著者:Jan Goldstein
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年10月31日
A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century France
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to histo……続きを見る