John S. Haller, Jr., provides the first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine.
The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medicine was undergoing a profound crisis of faith. At the heart of the crisis was a disillusionment with the traditional therapeutics of the day and an intense questioning of the principles and philosophy upon which medicine had been built. Many American physicians and their patients felt that medicine had lost the ability to cure. The Eclectics...
John S. Haller, Jr., provides the first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine.
In this newest volume in the Medical Humanities Series, T. Doby and G. Alker trace the development of our ability to visualize the inside of the human body.
For thousands of years, horror of the dead, superstition, and oppressive decrees prevented our ancestors from looking inside the human body; in ancient civilizations, diagnostics were based on imagination and theory, with only limited observation. So people developed suppositions about health and disease without knowing how the liver, heart, brain, and blood vessels looked or functioned. In tracing the history of medical imaging, Doby...
In this newest volume in the Medical Humanities Series, T. Doby and G. Alker trace the development of our ability to visualize the inside of the human...
Few contemporary issues question the nature of life and death, families and communities, altruism and self-interest, and individual rights and public good as dramatically as does organ donation and transplantation. Transplantation raises profound and intriguing concerns about the interplay of medical needs, state authority, and bodily integrity. Although advances in medical technology and the development of immunosuppressant drugs have made transplantation an almost routine procedure in many parts of the world, the actual availability of transplantable organs remains inadequate to the need....
Few contemporary issues question the nature of life and death, families and communities, altruism and self-interest, and individual rights and public ...
Few contemporary issues question the nature of life and death, families and communities, altruism and self-interest, and individual rights and public good as dramatically as does organ donation and transplantation. Transplantation raises profound and intriguing concerns about the interplay of medical needs, state authority, and bodily integrity. Although advances in medical technology and the development of immunosuppressant drugs have made transplantation an almost routine procedure in many parts of the world, the actual availability of transplantable organs remains inadequate to the need....
Few contemporary issues question the nature of life and death, families and communities, altruism and self-interest, and individual rights and public ...
