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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1904470157
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book The Life of Sir John Forbes written by Robin Agnew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the life and achievements of Sir John Forbes - Royal Physician, Medical Journalist and first translator of Laennec, the remarkable French inventor of the stethoscope.
Author : Rhodri Hayward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719074141
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Resisting History written by Rhodri Hayward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Rhodri Hayward examines the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to create a consistent and rational narrative capable of containing the inexplicable. He account argues that the psychological theories we routinely use to make sense of supernatural experience were born out of struggles between popular mystics and conservative authorities.
Author : Louise Foxcroft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317024826
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Author : Rosemary Wall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319176
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939 written by Rosemary Wall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.
Author : Tiffany Watt-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198700938
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Download or read book On Flinching written by Tiffany Watt-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Flinching explores the cultural history of flinches, winces, cringes and starts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the flinches of scientific observers as its starting point, it likens scientific experiments to the emotional interactions between audiences and actors in the theatre of this period.
Author : William Coleman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520357132
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book The Investigative Enterprise written by William Coleman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven distinguished contributors to this volume illuminate not only the history of the biological and medical sciences but also the relationship between institutes and ideas which characterized the explosion of scientific investigation, especially in Germany. Besides William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes, they include Robert G. Frank, Jr., Timothy Lenoir, John E. Lesch, Kathryn M. Olesko, and Arlene M. Tuchman. Scientific investigation was not new to the nineteenth century, but it was during that period that it began to be carried out on a scale large enough to become crucial to the welfare of nations. Much remains to be learned about how the forms of organization characteristic of the modern investigative enterprise originated. This book explores such questions in relation to one of the dominant experimental sciences of the century, physiology. Each author shows, through the examination of a specific institute or a specific subject, that the interplay between research, pedagogy, personal vision, and state or public interests can be studied to particular advantage in localized settings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Author : P.W.J. Bartrip
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333487
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades written by P.W.J. Bartrip and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth study of occupational health in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. As such it is an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history of health in the workplace. It focuses on the first four diseases to receive bureaucratic and legislative recognition: lead, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning and anthrax. As such it traces the emergence of medical knowledge and growth in public concern about the impact of these diseases in several major industries including pottery manufacture, matchmaking, wool-sorting and the multifarious trades in which arsenic was used as a raw material. It considers the process of state intervention taking due account of the influence of government inspectors, ‘moral entrepreneurs’ and various interest groups.
Author : John M S Pearce
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783261102
Total Pages : 653 pages
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Download or read book Fragments Of Neurological History written by John M S Pearce and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of “space-fillers”, the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers.The author has expanded these short essays and included several additional articles and biographical reviews. He has also incorporated some longer, more discursive essays, which should be relevant to neurologists, physicians and those working in internal medicine and psychiatry. The reader attracted to medical and neurological history should find much of interest in these diverse topics.
Author : Edward Beasley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1606189026
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
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Author : Pam Hirsch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446413500
Total Pages : 485 pages
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Download or read book Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon written by Pam Hirsch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential leader of the Victorian women's movement. Enormously talented, energetic and original, she was a feminist, law-reformer, painter, journalist, the close friend of George Eliot and a cousin of Florence Nightingale. As a painter, Barbara is now recognised as a vital figure among Pre-Raphaelite women artists. As a feminist she led four great campaigns: for married women's legal status, for the right to work, the right to vote and to education. Making brilliant use of unpublished journals and letters, Pam Hirsch has written a biography that is as lively and powerful as its subject, recreating the woman in all her moods, and placing her firmly in the context of women's struggle for equality.
Author : Louis-Cyril Celestin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319030205
Total Pages : 279 pages
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Download or read book Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard written by Louis-Cyril Celestin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.
Author : Paul C. Winther
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739112748
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire written by Paul C. Winther and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and intricately woven tale of opium trade, evangelism, scientific discovery and political intrigue, Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium and British Rule in India 1756-1895 documents the contribution of a medical misconception to the preservation of British Rule in India. British authorities, desperate to shield the India-China Opium Trade from the escalating criticism of Christian evangelists and missionaries, endorsed the claim that opium prevented and cured malaria. This scientific validation of a vital source of revenue helped decimate the anti-opiumist movement, allowing the Indian government to vastly expand poppy cultivation in the name of both economic prosperity and public health. In this thoroughly researched and immensely readable history, author Paul Winther provides a revealing look at the complex and often unexpected negotiations that enable scientific authority to legitimize political and economic gain.
Author : Carsten Madsen
Publisher : Glossator
ISBN 13 : 1453855815
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary written by Carsten Madsen and published by Glossator. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. http: //glossator.org
Author : Edward Shorter
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195176685
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry written by Edward Shorter and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international differences in context, and there is an extensive bibliography for further reading. Each entry gives the main dates, themes, and personalities involved in the unfolding of the topic. Longer entries describe the evolution of such subjects as depression, schizophrenia, and psychotherapy. The book gives ready reference to when things happened in psychiatry, how and where they happened, and who made the main contributions. In addition, it touches on such social themes as "women in psychiatry," "criminality and psychiatry," and "homosexuality and psychiatry." A comprehensive index makes immediately accessible subjects that do not appear in the alphabetical listing. Among those who will appreciate this dictionary are clinicians curious about the origins of concepts they use in their daily practices, such as "paranoia," "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors" (SSRIs), or "tardive dyskinesia"; basic scientists who want ready reference to the development of such concepts as "neurotransmitters," "synapse," or "neuroimaging"; students of medical history keen to situate the psychiatric narrative within larger events, and the general public curious about illnesses that might affect them, their families and their communities-or readers who merely want to know about the grand chain of events from the asylum to Freud to Prozac. Bringing together information from the English, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian languages, the Dictionary rests on an enormous base of primary sources that cover the growth of psychiatry through all of Western society.
Author : J. Buckingham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403932735
Total Pages : 247 pages
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Download or read book Leprosy in Colonial South India written by J. Buckingham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.
Author : F. Clifford Rose
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1848166699
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book History of British Neurology written by F. Clifford Rose and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (1621OCo1675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by animal experiments and pathology by post-mortem analysis. It was Willis who first used the word OC neurologyOCO and his team, who were among the founders of the Royal Society, included Christopher Wren who, besides being famous as an architect of London''s churches, drew the first modern diagram of the human brain. Developments in our knowledge of the nervous system in the following centuries, and the unique importance of clinical neurology, became globally recognised through the work of Whytt, Heberden, Hughlings Jackson, Gowers and many others. The work and discoveries of these eminent specialists were extended with the introduction of such neurosciences as neurophysiology, neuropathology and neuro-radiology, and this is the first comprehensive account of a battle with the unknown by determined practitioners.
