The Peaks of Medical History
Title | The Peaks of Medical History PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Loomis Dana |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Annals of Medical History
Title | Annals of Medical History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
A Short History of Medicine
Title | A Short History of Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Erwin H. Ackerknecht |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1421419556 |
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.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Title | Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army PDF eBook |
Author | National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1148 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Incunabula |
ISBN |
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library)
Title | Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library) PDF eBook |
Author | Army Medical Library (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1154 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Incunabula |
ISBN |
The History of Sudan Health Services
Title | The History of Sudan Health Services PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmed Bayoumi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Epidemiology |
ISBN |
The Future of Public Health
Title | The Future of Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1988-01-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309581907 |
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.