History of Medicine

History of Medicine

Author: Jacalyn Duffin

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1487539843

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Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely appreciated by general readers for more than twenty years. Based on sound scholarship and meticulous research, History of Medicine incorporates pithy examples from a range of periods and places and is infused with the author’s characteristic wit. The third edition has been completely revised to highlight new scholarship on the past and incorporate significant medical events of the most recent decade – including new technologies, drug shortages, medical assistance in dying, and recent outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola, H1N1, Zika, and COVID-19. The book is organized around themes of scientific and clinical interest, such as anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, surgery, obstetrics, medical education, health-care delivery, and public health. It includes a chapter on how to approach research in medical history, updated with new resources. History of Medicine is sensitive to the power of historical research to inform current health-care practice and enhance cultural understanding.


A History of Medicine

A History of Medicine

Author: Lois N. Magner

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 918

ISBN-13: 1138197130

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Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in pre-professional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that have shaped medical practices in decades past and continue to do so today.


Exploring the History of Medicine

Exploring the History of Medicine

Author: John Hudson Tiner

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1614581517

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From surgery to vaccines, man has made great strides in the field of medicine. Quality of life has improved dramatically in the last few decades alone, and the future is bright. But students must not forget that God provided humans with minds and resources to bring about these advances. A biblical perspective of healing and the use of medicine provides the best foundation for treating diseases and injury. In Exploring the World of Medicine, author John Hudson Tiner reveals the spectacular discoveries that started with men and women who used their abilities to better mankind and give glory to God. The fascinating history of medicine comes alive in this book, providing students with a healthy dose of facts, mini-biographies, and vintage illustrations. Includes chapter tests and index.


History of Medicine

History of Medicine

Author: Jacalyn Duffin

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0802095569

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Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly expanded, including more information on medicine in the United States, Great Britain, and in other European countries. The book continues to be organized conceptually around the major fields of medical endeavor such as anatomy, pharmacology, obstetrics, and psychiatry and has grown to include a new chapter on public health. Years of pedagogic experience, medical developments, and reader feedback have led to new sections throughout the book on topics including bioethics, forensics, genetics, reproductive technology, clinical trials, and recent outbreaks of BSE, West Nile Virus, SARS, and anthrax. Up to date and filled with pithy examples and teaching tools such as a searchable online bibliography, History of Medicine continues to demonstrate the power of historical research to inform current health care practice and enhance cultural understanding.


The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Author: Mark Jackson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0199546495

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In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.


History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student

History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student

Author: William Keller

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781734030808

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The purpose of this book is to provide medical students and others interested in the history of medicine, a well referenced, readable resource, which succinctly describes the evolution of medical knowledge from 3500 BC to present day. This book offers an opportunity to follow in chronological order, major discoveries, major events, influential people, and institutions most responsible for moving medical knowledge forward or impeding its progress. The book is organized into 10 chapters, with each focusing on a specific medical discipline: medical histology, medical anatomy, medical physiology, medical biochemistry, medical psychology, medical microbiology, medical immunology, medical neurosciences, medical pharmacology, and medical pathology. Each chapter is filled with additional snippets of medical trivia. 650 pages. Over 2,700 primary reference sources. The book is written by an internationally recognized, highly respected, medical school professor, with more than 30 years of experience teaching medical students. Every medical student, practicing physician, surgeon, nurse, and all others interested in a succinct, authoritative presentation of the history of medicine should own this book.


A History of Medicine

A History of Medicine

Author: Arturo Castiglioni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 1317

ISBN-13: 0429670923

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Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century. The book looks at the close relationship between the progress of medicine and its advancement of civilization, it covers the development of medicine from, old magical rites, religious creeds, classical Hippocratism and revolutionary discoveries, while looking at the associated economic, intellectual, and political conditions of life in different nations, during different times. The book provides an essential and detailed look at the rich history of medicine and how it has impacted society.


A Short History of Medicine

A Short History of Medicine

Author: Erwin H. Ackerknecht

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1421419556

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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.