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Dr. Frances Sage Bradley (1862–1949) was a mediating force between the urban world of her own education and experience, and that of rural Americans. As a widow with four young children, Bradley trai……続きを見る

Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League institutions. As the……続きを見る

Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid crisis, and the rising costs of pharmaceuticals have ……続きを見る

In 1964–65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented ……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

Cheryl Wells provides an edited and fully annotated collection of Wafer's diary entries during the war, his letters home, and the memoirs he wrote after returning to Canada. Wafer's writings are a f……続きを見る

Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabeth as a base, Who Killed the Queen? investigates Canada's mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds between 1994 and 1998.……続きを見る

Mai's experience as a physician and psychiatrist serves as a basis for his analysis. Working from the symptoms described in the medical evidence, Beethoven's letters and those of his friends, and th……続きを見る

O título detalha a extensa trajetória dos estudos sobre as leishmanioses (doença infecciosa causada por parasitas protozoários) no Brasil, englobando a descoberta de seus agentes etiológicos, as div……続きを見る

Het ontdekken van de geschiedenis van de psychologie en haar toepassingsgebieden is nog nooit zo eenvoudig geweest. Dit deel geeft een overzicht van de belangrijkste stromingen die het ontstaan en d……続きを見る

Domagk ist bisher als Forscher beschrieben, der völlig unbeeinflusst vom Nationalsozialismus geblieben ist. Dies war nur möglich, indem die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ausgeblendet wurde. Darunter ……続きを見る

Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665 This timely release of a year in the life of London’s greatest diarist comes with an introduction by bestselling author, Max Hastings. The plague that swept t……続きを見る

Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665 This timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves. Actually written sixty years after the plag……続きを見る

"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." - Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six week……続きを見る

This reference book is all about the troubled times in the western world with all those deaths, diseases and dark times. Fit for those who are studying history or literature, this reference book pro……続きを見る

“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitari……続きを見る

Het voelt alsof de wereld op instorten staat. Dus hoe kunnen we dan vasthouden aan ons optimisme? Hoe kunnen we onze hoop, vertrouwen en geloof in iets beters voeden? En hoe kunnen we in deze verdee……続きを見る

Originally published in 1984, the study of psychological aspects of health was a rapidly expanding enterprise. Most of the contributors to this volume were trained as social psychologists or by soci……続きを見る

This book pursues the very first use of the term “psychology”, which is traced back to 1520. The appearance of the term was not as a part of philosophy. Thus, the main hypothesis of this book is tha……続きを見る

How did beliefs about syphilis shape the kinds of treatment people with this disease received? The story of how a town in the Ozark hinterlands played a key role in determining standards of medical ……続きを見る

Increasingly frequent environmental exposures to hazardous substances present mental health professionals with groups and at times communities of people, faced with high levels of psychological thre……続きを見る

During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to……続きを見る

Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pande……続きを見る

Cuando se trata de ciencias médicas antiguas, prevalecen los malentendidos y la confusión. Se afirma que todo y cualquier cosa es la cura para esto o aquello. En medio de esta confusión, muchos opor……続きを見る

Psychological Types is one of Jung's most important and most famous works. First published by Routledge (Kegan Paul) in the early 1920s it appeared after Jung's so-called fallow period, during which……続きを見る

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), directly related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, presents a crisis in contact sports, the military, and public health. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Science……続きを見る

Outbreak in the Village is a fascinating account of the personal and professional journey of Dr. Doug Jenkinson, physician and researcher. Over the course of four decades in practice, Jenkinson trac……続きを見る

发现情绪的意义和功能从未如此简单。在本卷中，我们回顾了有关人类情感心理学的主要思想潮流。从早期学者的理论(如セン姆斯和坎农的理论)到最近心理生物学的发现。本卷第二部分专门讨论基本情绪、情商和情感发展问……続きを見る

在本书中，我们回顾了科学心理学诞生和演变的主要思想潮流。从最早的心理学实验室到精神动力学理论，从认知主义到神经科学，这本指南的第一部分带着你，陪伴你跻身于这个学科最重要的发现。本卷的第二部分专门介绍……続きを見る

An illuminating and original collection of essays on 20th century Russian psychology, offering unparalleled coverage of the scholarship of Vygotsky and his peers. Yasnitsky et al. challenge our assu……続きを見る