Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> History

The study of medical history is interesting in itself and may help to modify the view sometimes expressed that medical students and doctors are lacking in culture of any sort. Moreover, some historical perspective is often advantageous when one is considering the multitude of advances that are now taking place in the theory and practice of medicine.

This book, containing a series of collected papers concerning immunology and pathology and vascular biology and angiogenesis, drives us through scientific milestones in the history of medicine in the course of the past two centuries and...

""Silicone on Trial"offers a meticulous and readable accounting of the breast implant fiasco, when an agency head's arrogant mismanagement wrecked an industry and needlessly terrified millions of women, behavior that reveals a pernicious form of government corruption."

--Henry Miller MD, former director, Office of Biotechnology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

"Silicone on Trial" is an exceptional recounting of the controversial history of silicone medical devices, and how easily the public can be misled by dubious findings. Surgeon and historian Jack Fisher explains why government...

Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis for Italian Americans, and so on. It was a challenging and ambitious program, dangerous for the providers, and troublingly reductive for the patients. Nevertheless, poor and working-class African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women all received some of the nation s best...

Wolfgang U. Eckart, Direktor des Instituts fur Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin an der Universitat Heidelberg, kommentiert aus heutiger Sicht die hier wiedergegebene erste deutsche Ubersetzung von Edward Jenners Werk "An inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolae Vaccinae." Sie erschien 1799 unter dem Titel "Eduard Jenners Untersuchungen uber die Ursachen und Wirkungen der Kuhpocken: einer Krankheit, die man in einigen westlichen Provinzen Englands vorzuglich in Gloucestershire bemerkt hat."

Edward Jenner ist der Erfinder der modernen Pockenimpfung. Die Impfung mit echten...

Wolfgang U. Eckart kommentiert aus heutiger Sicht die beiden in die Medizingeschichte eingegangenen Arbeiten "Cellular-Pathologie" (1855) im Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie von Rudolf Virchow und "Die Cellular-Pathologie im Gegensatz zur Humoral- und Solidarpathologie" von Gustav Adolph Spie, erschienen im gleichen Band des Archivs fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie.

Rudolf Virchow gilt als Grunder der modernen Pathologie. Er entwickelte die Zellularpathologie. Die bahnbrechende Erstveroffentlichung war der Aufsatz "Cellular-Pathologie." Mit dem Werk wird...