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A powerful tribute to one of the greatest scientists, activists, humanitarians, and social entrepreneurs in the world of HIV/AIDS. When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian reb……続きを見る

This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn’s privat……続きを見る

THIS POTENT GROUP OF WEAPONS HAS NOTABLY ANNIHILATED SMALLPOX, PUSHED POLIO TO THE VERGE OF ELIMINATION AND IS NOW TAKING ON COVID-19 Indians practised inoculation centuries before the West discover……続きを見る

Excerpt: "On October 1st, 1908, Mr. Rudyard Kipling was kind enough to distribute the prizes at the opening of the new session of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital. The address which he t……続きを見る

En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia. A p……続きを見る

Un recorrido por la historia y la evolución de la psiquiatría de la mano de dos expertos en la materia. La psiquiatría ha hecho un largo camino desde la época en que los «lunáticos» eran encadenados……続きを見る

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from ……続きを見る

China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment……続きを見る

This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination po……続きを見る

Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the……続きを見る

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments……続きを見る

This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries betwe……続きを見る

A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we res……続きを見る

Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, a……続きを見る

John P. McGovern held seventeen professorships, received twenty-nine honorary doctorates, and established the nation’s largest privately owned allergy and immunology clinic. He authored 252 professi……続きを見る

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and……続きを見る

Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon themーsometimes too late. Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the med……続きを見る

Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account……続きを見る

Reprinted in the original for the first time in 75 years Listen to Dr. Hubbard! Keep your virtue! In the battle to retain her purity, a young woman's path is beset with dangers and traps. If he perm……続きを見る

Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily mo……続きを見る

From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a h……続きを見る

Irvin D. Yalom A Spinoza-probléma lapjain valóságot és képzeletet gyúr egybe felejthetetlen lélektani-bölcseleti regénnyé. A filozófiai kérdések iránt mélyen érdeklődő pszichiáter párhuzamosan mutat……続きを見る

Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throu……続きを見る

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. Louisa May Alcott was an American writer who also served as a vo……続きを見る

This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing histo……続きを見る

What human teeth can tell us about our evolution, development, and behavior . . . This fascinating, accessible study will “put a smile on your face with its weird facts about primate dentistry and t……続きを見る

El Tratado breve de medicina y de todas las enfermedades (1592) es uno de los primeros textos de literatura médica en la Nueva España. Su autor, el agustino fray Agustín Farfán, fue un médico respet……続きを見る

This book introduces the achievements of dental anthropology research in Japan to the people in the world. It starts with the tooth morphology of the people in the Paleolithic Period about 20,000 ye……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalist of the 2023 International Convention for Asian Scholars Book Prize in the Social Sciences In A Medicated Empire**, Timothy M. Yang explor……続きを見る

Kjo është historia e viktimave të tjera të pushtimit gjerman në Francë, historia e nënës sime, e cila u nda nga familja e saj dhe u arratis, dhe torturat që mbetën me të përgjithmonë. Këto janë kujt……続きを見る