The Invention Of Medicine
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The Invention Of Medicine
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Author : Robin Lane Fox
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-12-08
The Invention Of Medicine written by Robin Lane Fox and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with History categories.
A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world. Elegantly written and remarkably learned, The Invention of Medicine is a groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of Greek culture and city life.
A Short History Of Medicine
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Author : Erwin H. Ackerknecht
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-05-01
A Short History Of Medicine written by Erwin H. Ackerknecht and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Medical categories.
A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay. Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine. Covering the broad sweep of discoveries from parasitic worms to bacilli and x-rays, and highlighting physicians and scientists from Hippocrates and Galen to Pasteur, Koch, and Roentgen, Ackerknecht narrates Western and Eastern civilization’s work at identifying and curing disease. He follows these discoveries from the library to the bedside, hospital, and laboratory, illuminating how basic biological sciences interacted with clinical practice over time. But his story is more than one of laudable scientific and therapeutic achievement. Ackerknecht also points toward the social, ecological, economic, and political conditions that shape the incidence of disease. Improvements in health, Ackerknecht argues, depend on more than laboratory knowledge: they also require that we improve the lives of ordinary men and women by altering social conditions such as poverty and hunger. This revised and expanded edition includes a new foreword and concluding biographical essay by Charles E. Rosenberg, Ackerknecht’s former student and a distinguished historian of medicine. A new bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer explores recent scholarship in the history of medicine.
The History Of Medicine
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Author : Michael Woods
language : en
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Release Date : 2005-01-01
The History Of Medicine written by Michael Woods and has been published by Lerner Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Brief history of some major medical advances, from hand washing to prosthetics.
The Invention Of Surgery
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Author : David Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-03-03
The Invention Of Surgery written by David Schneider and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Medical categories.
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.
A History Of Medicine
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Author : Arturo Castiglioni
language : en
Publisher: New York : A. A. Knopf
Release Date : 1941
A History Of Medicine written by Arturo Castiglioni and has been published by New York : A. A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Medicine categories.
You Bet Your Life
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Author : Paul A Offit
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-09-21
You Bet Your Life written by Paul A Offit and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Medical categories.
One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for today Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them. Told in Offit’s vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. Our pandemic year has shown us, with its debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, how easy it is to get everything wrong. You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right.
Greek Medicine
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Author : James Longrigg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Greek Medicine written by James Longrigg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with History categories.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Chinese Medicine And Healing
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Author : TJ Hinrichs
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-07
Chinese Medicine And Healing written by TJ Hinrichs and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-07 with History categories.
In covering the subject of Chinese medicine, this book addresses topics such as oracle bones, the treatment of women, fertility and childbirth, nutrition, acupuncture, and Qi as well as examining Chinese medicine as practiced globally in places such as Africa, Australia, Vietnam, Korea, and the United States.
A History Of Medicine In 50 Discoveries History In 50
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Author : Marguerite Vigliani
language : en
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-27
A History Of Medicine In 50 Discoveries History In 50 written by Marguerite Vigliani and has been published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-27 with Medical categories.
Vigliani and Eaton’s high-interest exploration of medicine begins in prehistory. The 5,000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have treated his gallstones, Lyme disease, and hardening of the arteries with the 61 tattoos that covered his body—most of which matched acupuncture points—and the walnut-sized pieces of fungus he carried on his belt. The herbal medicines chamomile and yarrow have been found on 50,000-year-old teeth, and neatly bored holes in prehistoric skulls show that Neolithic surgeons relieved pressure on the brain (or attempted to release evil spirits) at least 10,000 years ago. From Mesopotamian pharmaceuticals and Ancient Greek sleep therapy through midwifery, amputation, bloodletting, Renaissance anatomy, bubonic plague, and cholera to the discovery of germs, X-rays, DNA-based treatments and modern prosthetics, the history of medicine is a wild ride through the history of humankind.
John Gregory And The Invention Of Professional Medical Ethics And The Profession Of Medicine
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Author : Laurence B. McCullough
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-07-23
John Gregory And The Invention Of Professional Medical Ethics And The Profession Of Medicine written by Laurence B. McCullough and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-23 with Medical categories.
The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 's, research assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi cal Branch at Galveston, Texas, in 1974, on the recommendation of our teacher at the University of Texas at Austin, Irwin C. Lieb. During that summer Tris "lent" me to Chester Bums, who has done important schol arly work over the years on the history of medical ethics. I was just finding out what bioethics was and Chester sent me to the rare book room of the Medical Branch Library to do some work on something called "medical deontology. " I discovered that this new field of bioethics had a history. This string of accidents continued, in 1975, when Warren Reich (who in 1979 made the excellent decisions to hire me to the faculty in bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and to persuade Andre Hellegers to appoint me to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics) took Tris Engelhardt's word for it that I could write on the history of modem medical ethics for Warren's major new project, the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Warren then asked me to write on eighteenth-century British medical ethics.