Essays in the History of Therapeutics
Essays in the History of Therapeutics

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9004418318

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Therapeutics has been central to the medical enterprise in all times and all places, but a subject that is all too often neglected by historians. The essays in this volume follow a range in chronology from antiquity to the 1980s and in geography from the Mediterranean Basin to the New World. They touch on such matters as diet and drugs, magic and surgery, orthodox and unorthodox approaches. What they share is an attempt to get beyond the easy dismissal of almost all therapeutics before the twentieth century as meaningless and harmful and to examine concrete dimensions of the therapeutic encounter in its social, professional, religious and scientific reverberations.

The Therapeutic Revolution
The Therapeutic Revolution

Author: Morris J. Vogel

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1512819158

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This book is not about one glorious triumph after another, nor is it a series of complaints about doctors and hospitals. Rather, these essays examine American medicine within its context, sensitive to the role of medical knowledge, practitioners, and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selections not only cover general considerations of the social and cultural context in which American medicine developed but also analyze the relationship between science and medicine, the development of mental hospitals, nursing, and health insurance.

"On Second Thought" and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science

Author: Owsei Temkin

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-01-11

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780801867743

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Over the course of a career spanning most of the twentieth century, distinguished historian Owsei Temkin has argued passionately for the necessity of chronicling and analyzing the history of medicine. The essays presented in this book span Dr. Temkin's career, bringing together new pieces and many previously unavailable outside the journals in which they were originally published. Here the reader will find new thoughts and ideas that deviate from Dr. Temkin's earlier beliefs and reflect a lifetime of research into the historical and ethical foundations of modern medicine.

The History of Therapeutic Medicine in Essays and Sketches
The History of Therapeutic Medicine in Essays and Sketches

Author: Khalida Gantseva

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2014-05

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9783659528026

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The publication was prepared to provide the educational component of the academic process on the basis of professional commitment, awareness and the increasing importance of historical and pedagogical examples, traditions and experience of leading luminaries of medicine The book includes essays based on real historically accurate facts, allowing visually feel routine and regularity propaedeutic discoveries. The publication might be interesting for all who are not indifferent to the fate of people who have dedicated their lives to serving the fatherland, health and social well-being of its citizens. The material presented is useful for medical students of educational institutions as academic publication.

Essays on Infant Therapeutics
Essays on Infant Therapeutics

Author: John Brodhead Beck

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781357983185

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine
The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine

Author: Owsei Temkin

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9780801885471

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Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin brought to his writing an awesome range of scholarship, for he was at home in the classical, the medieval, and the modern eras. The essays gathered in this volume deal with all the topics that Temkin considered most important in his work. They were widely commended for their originality, intelligent analysis, and impressive continuity of thought. Temkin explores the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as general questions concerning the historical and philosophical approach to medicine from antiquity to the early twentieth century. In a retrospective introduction which gives the book its name, Temkin relates his writings to his career as a scholar in Germany and the United States. He situates the writings against the background of the development of the study of medical history and provides recollections of such prominent figures as Karl Sudhoff, Henry E. Sigerist, William H. Welch, and Richard H. Shryock.

Pill Peddlers
Pill Peddlers

Author: Jonathan Liebenau

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Papers cover the history of the pharmaceutical industry and of pharmacists and industralists in Great Britain, Switzerland, France, and America.

Medicine in Society
Medicine in Society

Author: Andrew Wear

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-27

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780521336390

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The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialised papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesises, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this 'new social history' of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalised medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovatory topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.