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Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author : Roger Cooter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000150909
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Roger Cooter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations. The editors of Medicine in the Twentieth Century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiences. Some concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patients.

Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author : Roger Cooter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136794719
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Roger Cooter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations. The editors of Medicine in the Twentieth Century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiences. Some concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patients.

Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China

Author : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253014948
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China written by Bridie Andrews and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens.” —The Lancet This volume examines important aspects of China’s century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people’s health—organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book’s significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine; the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war; and the important role of the Chinese consumer. This is a thought-provoking read for health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China.

Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author : Roger Cooter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136794727
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Roger Cooter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Production, Community and Consumption: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Medicine -- CHAPTER 2 The Golden Age of Medicine? -- CHAPTER 3 Health and Medicine in Interwar Europe -- CHAPTER 4 Soviet Medicine -- CHAPTER 5 Colonial Medicine -- CHAPTER 6 Health and Health Care in the Progressive Era -- CHAPTER 7 Post-Colonial Medicine -- CHAPTER 8 Medicine and the Counter Culture -- CHAPTER 9 Medicine and the Welfare State 1930-1970 -- CHAPTER 10 Pharmaceutical Industry -- CHAPTER 11 The Crises of the Welfare States -- CHAPTER 12 Medicine, Technology and Industry -- CHAPTER 13 The Historiographical Body -- CHAPTER 14 The Healthy Body -- CHAPTER 15 The Industrial Body -- CHAPTER 16 The Third-World Body -- CHAPTER 17 The Temporal Body -- CHAPTER 18 The Sexual Body -- CHAPTER 19 The Reproductive Body -- CHAPTER 20 The Psychological Body -- CHAPTER 21 The Psychoanalytic Body -- CHAPTER 22 The Psychiatric Body -- CHAPTER 23 The Diseased Body -- CHAPTER 24 The Disabled Body -- CHAPTER 25 The Defended Body -- CHAPTER 26 The Genetic Body -- CHAPTER 27 The Analyzed Body -- CHAPTER 28 The Experimental Body -- CHAPTER 29 The Ethical Body -- CHAPTER 30 The Dead Body -- CHAPTER 31 Media -- CHAPTER 32 Hospitals -- CHAPTER 33 Nurses -- CHAPTER 34 Health Workers -- CHAPTER 35 Going to the Doctor -- CHAPTER 36 Childbirth and Maternity -- CHAPTER 37 Children's Experiences of Illness -- CHAPTER 38 Wartime -- CHAPTER 39 Supported Lives -- CHAPTER 40 Old Age -- CHAPTER 41 Mental Illness -- CHAPTER 42 Surgeons -- CHAPTER 43 Cancer -- CHAPTER 44 AIDS and Patient-Support Groups -- CHAPTER 45 Malaria -- CHAPTER 46 The Chinese Experience -- Index

Extreme Medicine

Author : Kevin Fong, M.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126296
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Medicine written by Kevin Fong, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world’s environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it survivable. As modernity brought us ever more into different kinds of extremis, doctors pushed the bounds of medical advances and human endurance. Extreme exploration challenged the body in ways that only the vanguard of science could answer. Doctors, scientists, and explorers all share a defining trait: they push on in the face of grim odds. Because of their extreme exploration we not only understand our physiology better; we have also made enormous strides in the science of healing. Drawing on his own experience as an anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser, Dr. Kevin Fong examines how cuttingedge medicine pushes the envelope of human survival by studying the human body’s response when tested by physical extremes. Extreme Medicine explores different limits of endurance and the lens each offers on one of the systems of the body. The challenges of Arctic exploration created opportunities for breakthroughs in open heart surgery; battlefield doctors pioneered techniques for skin grafts, heart surgery, and trauma care; underwater and outer space exploration have revolutionized our understanding of breathing, gravity, and much more. Avant-garde medicine is fundamentally changing our ideas about the nature of life and death. Through astonishing accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Fong illustrates the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme limits, where human life is balanced on a knife’s edge. Extreme Medicine is a gripping debut about the science of healing, but also about exploration in its broadest sense—and about how, by probing the very limits of our biology, we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work, of what life is, and what it means to be human.

Quack Medicine

Author : Eric W. Boyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Quack Medicine written by Eric W. Boyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth-century America

Author : Todd Lee Savitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth-century America written by Todd Lee Savitt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences that made them well suited for slavery. These attitudes continued into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. In Race and Medicine, historian Todd Savitt presents revised and updated versions of his seminal essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance. Savitt examines the history of sickle-cell anemia and identifies the first two patients with the disease noted in medical literature. He proposes an explanation of why the disease was not well known in the general African American population for at least 50 years after its discovery. Charleston Low Country and not elsewhere in the country. Other topics Savitt explores include African American medical schools, the formation of an African American medical profession, and SIDS among Virginia slaves. With its new research data and interpretations of existing materials, Race and Medicine will be a valuable resource to those interested in the history of medicine and African American history as well as to the medical community.

Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics

Author : C. Hannaway
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607503085
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics written by C. Hannaway and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century and to the number of historians, social scientists and health policy analysts now working on the subject. The book is comprised of essays by noted historians and social scientists that offer insights on a range of subjects that should be a significant stimulus for further historical investigation. It details the NIH’s practices, policies and politics on a variety of fronts, including the development of the intramural program, the National Institute of Mental Health and mental health policy, the politics and funding of heart transplantation and the initial focus of the National Cancer Institute. Comparisons can be made with the development of other American and British institutions involved in medical research, such as the Rockefeller Institute and the Medical Research Council. Discussions of the larger scientific and social context of United States’ federal support for research, the role of lay institutions in federal funding of virus research, the consequences of technology transfer and patenting, the effects of vaccine and drug development and the environment of research discoveries all offer new insights and suggest questions for further exploration.

Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media

Author : Virginia Berridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415650052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media written by Virginia Berridge and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years. Taking a broad perspective the book examines developments in Western Europe, and the relationships between Europe and the US. The essays looks at the dual legacy of social medicine through health services and health promotion, and analyse the role of mass media along with the connections between public health and industry. This international collection will appeal to public health professionals, students of the history of medicince and of heath policy

Science and Medicine in Twentieth-century China

Author : John Z. Bowers
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Science and Medicine in Twentieth-century China written by John Z. Bowers and published by U of M Center for Chinese Studies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this volume is devoted is devoted to synoptical and analytical examinations by historians of attempts to root modern science in China during the Republican period. The second contains reports by scientists who have been involved in China's recent efforts to modernize. Topics include genetic research, taxonomy, contraception, food policy, and schistosomiasis. With an introduction by Nathan Sivin.

Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author : Roger Cooter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780203826522
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Roger Cooter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations. The editors of Medicine in the Twentieth Centuryhave commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiences. Some concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patients.

Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author : Alex Woolf
Publisher : Hodder Wayland
ISBN 13 : 9780750246392
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Alex Woolf and published by Hodder Wayland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Woolf gives readers a look at the medical contributions and advances made in the 20th century.

Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Author : Roger (ed) Cooter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century written by Roger (ed) Cooter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century

Author : John Crellin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000156761
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century written by John Crellin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a fresh perspective on the day-to-day use of medicine! A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century explores the most perplexing issues concerning the uses of prescriptions and other medicines on both sides of the Atlantic. The book equips you with a thorough understanding of the everyday use of medicine in the United States, Canada, and Britain, concentrating on its recent past. Dr. John K. Crellin, author of several influential books on the history of medicine and pharmacy, addresses vital topics such as: the emergence of prescription-only medicines; gate-keeping roles for pharmacists; the role of the drugstore; and the rise of alternative medicines. A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century adds the historical perspective missing from most medical and pharmaceutical literature about trends in the day-to-day use of medicines in society. The book is essential reading for anyone taking regular medication, either as self-care or by a physician’s prescription. Topics discussed include the non-scientific factors that validate medicines, the relevance of the control of narcotics, marketing strategies used by the pharmaceutical industry, the changing authority of physicians and pharmacists, over-the-counter medicines, tonics and sedatives, and patient compliance—and non-compliance. A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century also addresses: medicines for weakness (“health” foods, fortifiers, digestives/laxatives) poison and pharmacy legislation placebos tranquilizers and antidepressants hormones side-effects psychoactive medications herbal medicines a brief history of the use of medicines from the 17th to 19th centuries suggestions for future policies and much more! A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century is equally vital as a professional resource for physicians, pharmacists, and health care administrators, as a classroom guide for academics working in the medical and pharmaceutical fields, and as a resource for patients.

Amid Masters of Twentieth Century Medicine

Author : Leonard George Rowntree
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Amid Masters of Twentieth Century Medicine written by Leonard George Rowntree and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medicine and Modernity

Author : Manfred Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524568
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Modernity written by Manfred Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany.

Social Medicine and Medical Sociology in the Twentieth Century

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004418539
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Social Medicine and Medical Sociology in the Twentieth Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little attention has been paid to the history of the influence of the social sciences upon medical thinking and practice in the twentieth century. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of the interaction between medicine and social science by evaluating its significance for the moral and aterial role of medicine in modern societies. Some of the essays examine the ideas of both clinicians and social scientists who believed that highly technologized medicine could be made more humanistic by understanding the social relations of health and illness. Other authors interrogate the critical assault which social science has made upon medicine as a system of knowledge, organisation and power. The volume discusses, therefore, the relationship between social-scientific knowledge both in and of medicine in the twentieth century. Collectively the essays illustrate that the respective power of biology and culture in determining human behaviour and social transition continues to be an unresolved paradox.