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“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions……続きを見る

A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth mo……続きを見る

In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey th……続きを見る

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, ……続きを見る

How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseasesーand what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics. After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be……続きを見る

Organisational Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies critically reflects upon 14 studies by researchers such as Gilbreth, French and Raven, Greenberg, and Schein, that have long been considered……続きを見る

“[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary.” ー Rebellious Magazine An award-winning psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's ……続きを見る

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and……続きを見る

The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a ……続きを見る

‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspi……続きを見る

Карл Юнг и Вольфганг Паули работали соответственно в области психики и материи. Эти два сектора считаются абсолютно несовместимыми друг с другом. Фактически, научный материализм отрицает существован……続きを見る

現代人=藥人 現代人的生活離不開藥，各種病痛都仰頼藥物緩解 人類對神奇藥物的追尋，推動著醫藥的演進發展 藥能治病，也能致命；無數生命的犧牲，逐步建構出現代醫療的樣貌 一部與你我生活息息相關的藥物演進史 「……続きを見る

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of those life-changing reads that makes you seeーor, in this case, hearーthe whole world differently.” ーMegan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, ofte……続きを見る

In "Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses," the pioneering nurse and social reformer Florence Nightingale offers a compelling and intimate view into the evolving role of nurses during the Victorian era……続きを見る

Neurology abounds with eponyms--Babinski's sign, Guillain-Barre' syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, etc. Neurologists and neuroscientists, however, are often hazy about the origin of these terms. This b……続きを見る

Wall Street Journal Bestseller 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business Intelligence / Innovation The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced t……続きを見る

This book examines an important area of Aristotle's philosophy: the generation of substances. While other changes presuppose the existence of a substance (Socrates grows taller), substantial generat……続きを見る

We are swamped with information and each day seems to bring new discoveries that must be considered. Never before in the history of science have so many scientists been as active as today. It has be……続きを見る

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this ……続きを見る

Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ……続きを見る

This book is a strenuous critique of the misinterpretation of statistical knowledge of populations in mainstream psychology, exploring the implications of assuming that those statistics constitute s……続きを見る

INSIDE ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH: An authority on Alzheimer’s offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure. Includes personal and powerful st……続きを見る

This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the lite……続きを見る

In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way ……続きを見る

British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed ju……続きを見る

The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, le……続きを見る

This comparative history examines the divergent paths taken by Britain and France in managing opiate abuse during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though the governments of both na……続きを見る

This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, th……続きを見る

Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from……続きを見る

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a p……続きを見る