Category: Special Topics

By Clive Spinage

ISBN-10: 1441989013

ISBN-13: 9781441989017

ISBN-10: 1461347122

ISBN-13: 9781461347125

Cattle Plague: A History is split into 5 sections, facing the character of the virus, through a chronological background of its prevalence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the ultimate twentieth century outbreaks; then administrative keep watch over measures via laws, the critical avid gamers from the 18th century, by way of an research of a few results, political, monetary and social. Then follows makes an attempt at healing from earliest instances encompassing superstition and witchcraft, principally Roman tools persisting till the nineteenth century; the quest for a medication via inoculation and the ultimate step forward in Africa on the finish of the nineteenth century. The final part covers the sickness in Asia and Africa. Appendices conceal rules now in strength to manage the sickness in addition to ancient directions, decrees and statutes courting from 1745-1878.

By Kevin Chan, Henry Lee

ISBN-10: 0203219899

ISBN-13: 9780203219898

ISBN-10: 0203274997

ISBN-13: 9780203274996

ISBN-10: 0415277205

ISBN-13: 9780415277204

ISBN-10: 1280280395

ISBN-13: 9781280280399

An introductory textual content aimed toward practitioners of chinese language medication and orthodox medication, and different healthcare execs, this booklet makes a speciality of the stipulations for which conventional chinese language drugs might be applicable and its wider use healthcare. The publication divides the topic into 3 sections: key matters in chinese language drugs, distinctive elements of scientific and clinical perform, and the growth of TCM and comparable perform in chosen nations and areas. targeted positive aspects contain discussions of using TCM in melanoma learn, problems with toxicity, tactics for identity of chinese language natural fabrics utilizing DNA fingerprinting, and more. Read more...

By Ann Anderson

ISBN-10: 0786408006

ISBN-13: 9780786408009

ISBN-10: 0786422289

ISBN-13: 9780786422289

Lengthy earlier than tv and radio ads beckoned to strength dealers, the medication express supplied unfastened leisure and promised therapies for every little thing from corns to melanoma. Combining parts of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and solid out of date entrepreneurship, the showmen of the yankee medication convey bought tonics, ointments, drugs, extracts and a bunch of alternative "wonder-cures," certain to "cure what ails you." whereas the treatments have been seldom remarkable, the medication express used to be an immense a part of American tradition and of functionality heritage. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a flip upon the medication convey degree. This learn of the medication express phenomenon surveys 19th century renowned leisure and gives perception into the ways that convey enterprise, ads, and drugs manufacture constructed in live performance. the colourful international of the medication exhibit, with its Wild West indicates, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is totally explored. pictures of performers and of the interesting handbills and posters used to advertise the medication convey are integrated

By John E. Lesch

ISBN-10: 019518775X

ISBN-13: 9780195187755

ISBN-10: 0199748233

ISBN-13: 9780199748235

ISBN-10: 1429420871

ISBN-13: 9781429420877

Within the decade from 1935-1945, whereas the second one global warfare raged in Europe, a brand new classification of medications in a position to controlling bacterial infections introduced a healing revolution that keeps this day. the hot medications weren't penicillin and antibiotics, yet sulfonamides, or sulfa medications. The sulfa medications preceded penicillin through nearly a decade, and through international battle II they carried the most healing burden in either army and civilian drugs. Their luck prompted a quick enlargement of study and creation within the overseas pharmaceutical undefined, raised expectancies of drugs, and sped up the looks of recent and strong drugs in response to study. The latter improvement created new regulatory dilemmas and unanticipated healing difficulties. The sulfa medications additionally proved terribly fruitful as beginning issues for brand spanking new medicines or periods of gear, either for bacterial infections and for a few very important non-infectious ailments. This publication examines this leap forward in drugs, pharmacy, and technology in 3 elements. half I exhibits that an commercial study atmosphere used to be an important to the luck of the revolution in therapeutics that emerged from medicinal chemistry. half II indicates how nationwide changes formed the reception of the sulfa medicines in Germany, France, Britain, and the U.S.. the writer makes use of press insurance of the day to discover well known perceptions of the dramatic alterations happening in medication. half III files the effect of the sulfa medicinal drugs at the American attempt in global battle II. It additionally indicates how researchers got here to an realizing of the way the sulfa medicines labored, including a brand new theoretical size to the technological know-how of pharmacology and whilst offering a foundation for the invention of latest medicines within the Nineteen Forties, Nineteen Fifties, and Nineteen Sixties. A concluding bankruptcy summarizes the remodeling influence of the sulfa medicinal drugs on twentieth-century drugs, tracing the healing revolution from the preliminary step forward within the Nineteen Thirties to the present look for potent remedies for AIDS and the recent horizons spread out through the human genome undertaking and stem cellphone learn.

By David Wootton

ISBN-10: 0192803557

ISBN-13: 9780192803559

ISBN-10: 1429487151

ISBN-13: 9781429487153

All of us face ailment and dying, and depend upon the clinical career to increase our lives. but, David Wootton argues, from the 5th century BC until eventually the Thirties, medical professionals truly did extra damage than sturdy. during this arguable new account of the heritage of drugs, he asks simply how a lot reliable it has performed us through the years, and what sort of damage it maintains to do this day.

By David Casarett M.D.

ISBN-10: 1591846714

ISBN-13: 9781591846710

By Vladimir Janković (auth.)

ISBN-10: 023011346X

ISBN-13: 9780230113466

ISBN-10: 1349289345

ISBN-13: 9781349289349

This booklet explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with overall healthiness and environmental dangers. It seems on the upward thrust of the dichotomy among the weak 'in' and the threatening 'out' via interpreting the pathologies linked to climate, family house, air flow, garments, and trip in Britain on the flip of the nineteenth century.

By Robert E. Kohler

ISBN-10: 0521090474

ISBN-13: 9780521090476

ISBN-10: 0521243122

ISBN-13: 9780521243124

This penetrating case learn of establishment construction and entrepreneurship in technology exhibits how a minor scientific speciality advanced right into a huge and robust educational self-discipline. Drawing largely on little-used archival assets, the writer analyses intimately how biomedical technology turned a principal a part of clinical education and perform. The publication exhibits how biochemistry was once outlined as a unique self-discipline by way of the programmatic imaginative and prescient of person biochemists and of buyers and opponents in similar disciplines. It exhibits how self-discipline developers used learn programmes as thoughts that they tailored to the possibilities provided through altering academic markets and nationwide clinical reform hobbies within the usa, Britain and Germany. the writer argues that the priorities and kinds of quite a few departments and colleges of biochemistry replicate systematic social relationships among that self-discipline and biology, chemistry and medication. technology is formed through its carrier roles particularly neighborhood contexts: this is often the crucial subject matter. The author's view of the political economic system of recent technology could be of curiosity to historians and social scientists, clinical and scientific practitioners, and someone drawn to the ecology of data in clinical associations and professions.

By Andrew Scull

ISBN-10: 0203087984

ISBN-13: 9780203087985

ISBN-10: 0415770068

ISBN-13: 9780415770064

This compelling booklet brings jointly some of the significant papers released by way of Andrew Scull within the historical past of psychiatry during the last decade and a part. analyzing a number of the significant substantial debates within the box from the eighteenth century to the current, the historiographic essays supply a serious viewpoint on such significant figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter. Chapters on psychiatric therapeutics and at the moving social responses to insanity over a interval of just about 3 centuries upload to a entire evaluate of Anglo-American confrontations with insanity during this interval, and make the publication worthwhile for these involved to appreciate the psychiatric company. The madness of Place/The position of madness can be of curiosity to scholars and pros of the background of drugs and of psychiatry, in addition to sociologists curious about deviance and social regulate, the sociology of psychological affliction and the sociology of the professions.

By Charles E. Rosenberg

ISBN-10: 052139340X

ISBN-13: 9780521393409

Medication has constantly had its historians; yet until eventually lately it was once a historical past written by way of and for practitioners. Charles Rosenberg has been one of many key figures in fresh many years in establishing up the background of medication past parochial issues and as an alternative viewing medication within the wealthy currents of highbrow and social switch of the prior centuries. This ebook brings jointly for the 1st time in a single position lots of Professor Rosenberg's most vital essays. the 1st sections of essays, targeting principles and associations, are intended whilst to underline interactions among those geographical regions. The essays deal with such themes as therapeutics and its dating to social swap within the 19th century; the perform of drugs in manhattan a century in the past; and the increase and fall of the dispensary. The 3rd component of the ebook makes a speciality of the try and use background as a source for dialogue of a scientific global that regularly turns out uncontrolled and in a semi-permanent main issue, fiscal, organizational, and humane. The essays speak about subject matters that experience come into sight to the public--deinstitutionalization of the mentally ailing and the prestige of psychiatry; the health facility as a social and monetary challenge; and the social negotiations surrounding AIDS. Charles Rosenberg is the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the heritage and Sociology of technology on the collage of Pennsylvania. he's the writer, such a lot lately, of the commonly acclaimed publication, The Care of Strangers: the increase of America's health facility procedure (1987). He has served as president of the Society for the Social heritage of drugs and is presently the president of the yankee organization for the heritage of medication.