Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Medical World
Author: The Medical World of Early Modern France
Author: L. W. B. BrocklissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
This is a unique history of French medicine between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Brockliss focuses on physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, providing an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. But he also discusses other denizens of the medical world-- quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwives, herbalist and others--setting them within the broader context of social, economic, demographic, and cultural change.
The Medical World
Author: The Medical World
Author: William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World
Author: William F. BynumPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525176
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
Old World and New
Author: Kate KellyPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816072086
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The History of Medicine is a six-volume chronological account of the development of biology and chemistry and the economic and policy issues associated with public health. The interdisciplinary set begins with an exploration of the medical practices of early humans and concludes with a volume presenting readers with the vital information they need to answer questions concerning the future, from understanding personal risks associated with certain diseases to the ethical questions concerning organ transplants and the preservation of life. Old World and New: Early Medical Care, 1700-1840 discusses the concerns and advances in medicine that occurred during the Enlightenment, a time of significant progress in specific scientific fields. The book puts medical issues of the period into perspective and focuses on the unique accomplishments of the time, such as the scientific documentation of the anatomy. Though physicians of the period did not yet know the cause of disease, theirs was the hope that scientific knowledge would continue to grow so rapidly that disease would be eradicated. The volume includes information on advancements in surgery digesticin and respiration early American medical care the importance of public health midwifery military medicine popular healing methods smallpox, typhus, and yellow fever The book contains more than 40 color photographs and line illustrations, sidebars, a translation of the Hippocratic Oath, a chronology, a glossary, a detailed list of print and Internet resources, and an index. The History of Medicine is essential for high school students, teachers, and general readers who wish to learn about how and when various medical discoveries were made and how those discoveries affected health care at the time. The History of Medicine Set Medicine Becomes a Science Medicine Today The Middle Ages Old World and New The Scientific Revolution and Medicine Book jacket.
The Magical and Sacred Medical World
Author: Éva PócsPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527525791
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religious anthropology, ethno-medicine and medical anthropology, focusing on topics such as magical and religious concepts of health and disease, causes of disease, religious and magical averting and healing rites, healing gods, saints and, last but not least, the role that these play in the society, religion, mentality and everyday life of a community, as well as their various representations in folklore, literature or art. This volume includes, without restrictions of a methodological, temporal or geographical nature, works from the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, comparative historical and textual philology, as well as research findings using the latest methods of analysis in textual folklore or based on archival research or fieldwork in or outside of Europe. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, folklore, and medical anthropology, as well as general readers interested in the humanities and cultural history.
The world book illustrated home medical encyclopedia
Author: Informing the Future
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309215366
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This report illustrates the work of IOM committees in selected, major areas in recent years, followed by a description of IOM's convening and collaborative activities and fellowship programs. The last section provides a comprehensive bibliography of IOM reports published since 2007.
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Author: Robert B. BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888794
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.