History of medicine (117)

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolve...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras. The volume focuses on India and the transnational networks connecting developments in India with Southeast Asia, and the wider world and contribut...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Gerd Quaty rekonstruiert die Imagebildung von Zahnärzten in Deutschland von 1950 bis 2000 und zeigt darüber hinaus Tendenzen bis in die Gegenwart auf. Die Entwicklung dieses Images wird anhand von visuellen und textlichen Kommunikationsmitteln in der...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze how technology has become so central to medicine over the last two centuries and how we are coping w...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Auf Basis intensiver Archivforschung legt der Historiker Timo Baumann eine Geschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kreislaufforschung (DGK) im Nationalsozialismus vor. Er untersucht die Entwicklung dieser 1927 gegründeten medizinischen Fachgesellsc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Dieses essential zeigt die Entwicklung der Medizinischen Gymnastik von der Antike bis heute. Dabei wird erläutert, welche wichtige Rolle Bewegung schon immer in der Orthopädie gespielt hat. Zusätzliche passive Verfahren wurden dabei immer als Altern...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a troubling reality. Ideas about spiked drinks have shaped the way we think about drugs, alcohol, criminal law, risk, nightspots, and socializing for o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Im Zentrum dieses Sammelbandes stehen neue Forschungsergebnisse interdisziplinärer Autorinnen und Autoren aus sieben Ländern zum Thema Seuchen. Seuchen verbreiten zunächst Unsicherheiten, so dass historische Beispiele und Denkweisen herangezogen werd...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century. The case studies in this volume offer comparisons across Europe, from the diphtheria antito...