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This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "Seybert Report," based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-23
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Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s. The author discusses largely forgotten premodern concepts like cura palliativa and euthanasia medica...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-28
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This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-01-23
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This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century. Judith Walzer Leavitt's classic study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This book reproduces and comments John Woodall’s handbook which was used as standard text for medical treatment at sea in the seventeenth century and was the first instruction for medical service aboard on the whole. In 1612 the East India Company, founded in London...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2016-09-23
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Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath. His original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-02
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This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686). It tells the story of a student who is forced to defend himself against his...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-06-25
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The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Das Buch hat sowohl die Entdeckungsgeschichte frühkindlicher Reflexe als auch die historische Entwicklung der allgemeinen Reflexlehre zum Thema. Es wird zunächst ein Überblick gegeben über das umfangreiche Gebiet der geschichtlichen Entwicklung der allgemeinen...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-03-09
Collection :
Neuere Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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Aussergewöhnliche Zeiten bringen aussergewöhnliche Erscheinungen hervor. Der Gesundheitsmarkt der Weimarer Republik war von dem Machtkampf zwischen wissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienheilkunde geprägt. In diesem Kontext gelang es einzelnen medizinischen Laien in der...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-03-08
Collection :
Neuere Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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Wolfgang
U. Eckart setzt sich vornehmlich mit dem politischen Sauerbruch – oder besser:
der politischen Selbstinszenierung des großen Chirurgen – im Wandel der
Systeme, die seinen Lebensweg begleiteten, auseinander. Insbesondere die über
weite Strecken von seinem...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-02-12
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Offering a cultural history of blood as it was mobilized across twentieth-century U.S. medicine, militarisms, and popular culture, Hannabach examines the ways that blood has saturated the cultural imaginary.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and "backstreet"...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-09
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By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China most people were unable to afford a doctor, even in the unlikely case that one lived near...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-04
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Werner Buselmaier erläutert, dass die evolutionäre Medizin den Menschen als Ergebnis einer langen Entwicklung sieht. Diese Betrachtungsweise im Licht der Evolution ist für das Verständnis der Natur des gesunden wie des kranken Menschen von außerordentlicher Bedeutung....
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-03
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Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem Thema Pflege in der Frühen Neuzeit. Krankenpflege in dieser Zeit wird vor allem mit religiösen Orden und Gemeinschaften in Verbindung gebracht. Über die weltliche Krankenpflege ist hingegen wenig bekannt, noch weniger über die Personen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-15
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Social medicine was one of the key health paradigms of the early twentieth century. It perceived public health as a function of social conditions and aimed at improving it through comprehensive, horizontal strategies. Yet, it was no homogeneous or static phenomenon....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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