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A History of Medicine in 50 Objects

Author : Gill Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770857186
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book A History of Medicine in 50 Objects written by Gill Paul and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for A History of Music in 50 Instruments, also in this series: Wilkinson's history unfolds like a symphonic work with instrument makers, composers and virtuosic performers picking up these incredible creations and exposing their beauty and capability. To open it up is to be instantly hooked. -- Publishers Weekly A History of Medicine in 50 Objects takes readers on a 12,000-year journey to explore significant items that have advanced medical knowledge and practice. The fifty objects range from the everyday (a bottle of Aspirin) to singular medical advances (heart transplant pioneer Christian Bernard on the cover of TIME magazine). The objects are presented chronologically and described in two to four pages with illustrations, 150 beautiful archive images in all. Fact boxes note Location, Date, and Field, for example, epidemiology. Engaging text describes the artifacts in their social and cultural context, as well as their role in disease treatment and prevention. Centuries of invention and risk-taking have saved lives and advanced life expectancy. The first object is a Neolithic skull (ca 10,000 BCE) showing evidence of trephination, a hole deliberately cut into the skull of a living person and likely the first surgical practice. It was done widely well into the Renaissance, with surprising success, and is still done today, though rarely. The last object, like many others, was borne of tragedy. It is the protective gear designed for medical workers during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak. The objects come in all shapes and sizes -- an X-ray diffraction image of a DNA molecule; the first tuberculosis sanatorium. They are the everyday and the extraordinary -- a thermometer; a thought-controlled prosthetic limb. They are of society and of controversy -- cigarette package health warnings; Sigmund Freud's couch. All have a fascinating and entertaining story to tell about medicine as it unfolded over millennia. A History of Medicine in 50 Objects is an essential choice for general and specialty collections. Like the other titles in The History of... series, it is an exceptional selection for reluctant readers.

Illustrated History of Medicine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857625113
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures

Author : Tegan Kehoe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538135477
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures by : Tegan Kehoe

Download or read book Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures written by Tegan Kehoe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs. Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction of anesthesia, the adoption of germ theory, and advances in public health. In this book, museum artifacts are windows into both famous and ordinary people’s experiences with healthcare throughout American history, from patent medicines and faith healing to laboratory science. With 50 vignette-like chapters and 50 color photographs, Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures showcases little-known objects that illustrate the complexities of our relationship with health, such as a bottle from the short period when the Schlitz beer company sold lager that was supposed to be high in vitamin D during the first vitamin craze. It also highlights famous moments in medicine, such as the discovery of penicillin, as illustrated by a mold-culturing pan. Each artifact tells some piece of the story of how its creators or users approached fundamental questions in health. Some of these questions are, “What causes sickness, and what causes health?” and “How much can everyone master the principles of health, and how much do laypeople need to rely on outside authorities?” Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures describes the days when surgeons worked on patients without anesthesia and wiped their scalpels on their coats, and the day that EMTs raced to provide help when the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001. The book discusses social and cultural influences that have shaped healthcare, providing insight relevant to today’s problems and colorful anecdotes along the way.

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108340814
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Ages in 50 Objects written by Elina Gertsman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages.

A History of Gardening in 50 Objects

Author : George Drower
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991887
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A History of Gardening in 50 Objects written by George Drower and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest record of an enclosed space around a homestead come from 10,000 BC and since then gardens of varying types and ambition have been popular throughout the ages. Whether ornamental patches surrounding wild cottages, container gardens blooming over unforgiving concrete or those turned over for growing produce, gardens exist in all shapes and sizes, in all manner of styles. Today we benefit from centuries of development, be it in the cultivation of desirable blossom or larger fruits, in the technology to keep weeds and lawn at bay or even in the visionaries who tore up rulebooks and cultivated pure creativity in their green spaces. George Drower takes fifty objects that have helped create the gardening scene we know today and explores the history outside spaces in a truly unique fashion. With stunning botanical and archive images, this lavish volume is essential for garden lovers.

The History of Medicine

Author : Lisa Yount
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560068051
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The History of Medicine written by Lisa Yount and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the dawn of medicine, its development into a science and ultimately into specialization, and the challenges facing the current medical community.

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects

Author : Claudy Op den Kamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108352022
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects written by Claudy Op den Kamp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, because IP laws are all about us, but go mostly unrecognized. They are complicated and arcane, and few people understand why they should care about copyright, patents, and trademarks. In this lustrous collection, Claudy Op den Kamp and Dan Hunter have brought together a group of contributors - drawn from around the globe in fields including law, history, sociology, science and technology, media, and even horticulture - to tell a history of IP in 50 objects. These objects not only demonstrate the significance of the IP system, but also show how IP has developed and how it has influenced history. Each object is at the core of a story that will be appreciated by anyone interested in how great innovations offer a unique window into our past, present, and future.

Source Book of Medical History

Author : Logan Clendening
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486206211
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Source Book of Medical History written by Logan Clendening and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine

50 Treasures

Author : Charla Strelan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742724218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book 50 Treasures written by Charla Strelan and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Medicine in New York

Author : James Joseph Walsh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Medicine in New York written by James Joseph Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Medicine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book A History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeking the Cure

Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171734
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Seeking the Cure written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seeking the Cure tells the tale of American medicine with a series of little-known anecdotes that bring to life the grand and unceasing struggle by physicians to shed unsound, if venerated, beliefs and practices and adopt new medicines and treatments, often in the face of controversy and scorn. Rutkow expertly weaves the stories of individual doctors—what they believed and how they practiced—with the economic, political, and social issues facing the nation. Among the book’s many historical personages are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington (whose timely adoption of a controversial medical practice probably saved the Continental Army), Benjamin Rush, James Garfield (who was killed by his doctors, not by an assassin’s bullet), and Joseph Lister. The book touches such diverse topics as smallpox and the Revolutionary War, the establishment of the first medical schools, medicine during the Civil War, railroad medicine and the beginnings of specialization, the rise of the medical-industrial complex, and the thrilling yet costly advent of modern disease-curing technologies utterly unimaginable a generation ago, such as gene therapies, body scanners, and robotic surgeries. In our time of spirited national debate over the future of American health care amid a seemingly infinite flow of new medical discoveries and pharmaceutical products, Rutkow’s account provides readers with an essential historic, social, and even philosophical context. Working in the grand American literary tradition established by such eminent writer-doctors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks, he combines the historian’s perspective with the physician’s seasoned expertise. Capacious, learned, and gracefully told, Seeking the Cure will satisfy armchair historians and doctors alike, for, as Rutkow shows, the history of American medicine is a portrait of America itself.

History of Medicine

Author : Amy Best
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800233058
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book History of Medicine written by Amy Best and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Medicine in 12 Objects

Author : Carol Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0711294623
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A History of Medicine in 12 Objects written by Carol Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Medicine in 12 Objects is an entertaining and insightful guide through the instruments that have come to shape modern medicine as we know it.

From Humors to Medical Science

Author : John Duffy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063008
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book From Humors to Medical Science written by John Duffy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Duffy's classic history, formerly titled The Healers, has been thoroughly revised and updated for this second edition, which includes new chapters on women and minorities in medicine and on the challenges currently facing the health care field. "This remains the only comprehensive history of American medicine. The treatment of the emergence of modern medicine and the flowering of surgery is especially fresh and well done. As one of the respected scholars in our profession, John Duffy has again demonstrated his wide knowledge of the subject." -- Thomas N. Brunner, author of To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine

A Concise History of Medicine

Author : Sir William Osler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Medicine written by Sir William Osler and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invention of Surgery

Author : David Schneider
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643133896
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Surgery written by David Schneider and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider’s The Invention of Surgery is an in-depth biography of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians through the world-changing developments of anesthesia and antiseptic operating rooms to the “implant revolution” of the twentieth century.The Invention of Surgery is history of surgery that explains this dramatic, world-changing progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures. It links together the lives of the pioneering scientists who first understood what causes disease and how surgery could powerfully intercede in people’s lives, and then shows how the rise of surgery intersected with many of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the last century. And as Schneider argues, surgery has not finished transforming; new technologies are constantly reinventing both the practice of surgery and the nature of the objects we are permanently implanting in our bodies. Schneider considers these latest developments, asking “What’s next?” and analyzing how our conception of surgery has changed alongside our evolving ideas of medicine, technology, and our bodies.