History of medicine Books

Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to live in a time when medical science can not only cure the human body but also reshape it? How should we as individuals and as a society respond to new drugs and genetic technologies? Sheila and David Rothman address these troubling questions with a singular blend of history and analysis, taking us behind the scenes to explain how scientific research, medical practice, drug company policies, and a quest for peak performance combine to exaggerate potential benefits and minimize risks. The Rothmans bring an authoritative clarity to a subject often obscured by rumor, commerce and inadequate reporting, revealing just what happens when physicians view patients’ unhappiness and dissatisfaction with their bodies-short stature, thunder thighs, aging-as though they were diseases to be treated.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book, current enough to include information about COVID-19, is an excellent resource for both public libraries and home reference collections.” – Booklist

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Book SynopsisWelch won international fame as an authority on medical issues during American medicine's "heroic age", when medical training and practice underwent revolutionary change. This book was originally published in 1941, by which time Welch had set the standards in American medical education.Trade ReviewA well-written biography... [and] a good read... It is basically the background of modern medicine in the United States. It explains the curriculum that physicians encountered in medical school. Most importantly, this 50-year old gem does it with style. Maryland Medical JournalTable of ContentsForeword to the 1993 Johns Hopkins EditionChapter 1. The Dean of American MedicineChapter 2. Shadows Cast BeforeChapter 3. A Quiet Youth and a CrisisChapter 4. Lure of the Classics at YaleChapter 5. Convert to Medicine Chapter 6. The Great AwakeningChapter 7. Struggles in New YorkChapter 8. The Revelation of BacteriologyChapter 9. Laboratory YearsChapter 10. Research in Medicine Chapter 11. The Johns Hopkins Medical Schoo.Chapter 12. The Public ArenaChapter 13. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical ResearchChapter 14. Science at the BedsideChapter 15. Tragedies and TriumphsChapter 16. The Health of the NationChapter 17. War and the Building of PeaceChapter 18. Across the Pacific Chapter 19. History of MedicineChapter 20. Last AdventuresAppendix A. AcknowledgmentsAppendix B. Organizations and HonoursAppendix C. Notes to the TextIndex

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Book SynopsisArguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today.Trade ReviewJoseph F. Spillane has written an immaculate monograph on the drug's early history in the United States of America. His use of archives and diverse other sources means that he writes with unparalleled authority. -- Richard Davenport-Hines Times Literary Supplement A new, detailed history, carefully crafted, and with reader-friendly summaries. -- John C. Burnham Journal of Social History This is a good piece of work, combining cogent ideas with a rich historical narrative. It is an important book for anyone interested in the complicated, interesting history of American drug use and control. -- Jerome L. Himmelstein American Historical Review Spillane's account... is nuanced, deeply researched, and highly original. -- David T. Courtwright Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the country's current 'War on Drugs.' Virginia Quarterly Review A fascinating, in-depth snapshot of 40 years in the early history of cocaine in the U.S. Choice Spillane provides an excellent account. A deeply impressive social history. -- Philip Jenkins Journal of American History This book provides a remarkably well-researched account... an outstanding contribution to drugs history. -- Griffith Edwards Addiction A new, detailed history, carefully crafted and with reader-friendly summaries. -- John C. Burnham Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A Miracle of Modern Science: The Medical Use of CocaineChapter 2. Debating the Dangers of Cocaine: The Medical Era, 1885–1895Chapter 3. Making CocaineChapter 4. Selling Science: The Pharmaceutical Industry and CocaineChapter 5. The Transformation of Cocaine Use: The Popular Era, 1895–1920 Chapter 6. Private Acts, Public Concerns: The Emergence of the Cocaine FiendChapter 7. The Cautionary Tale: Cocaine and Drug Industry RegulationChapter 8. Consumers' Paradise?: A Shadow Market EmergesConclusion. The Foundations of Modern Drug ControlNotesSourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe mere fact of its having survived from at least the twelfth century (some claimed for it an earlier, Saxon pedigree) lent the inquest the trappings of an exemplary embodiment of the 'genius of English reform.'"-from Bodies of EvidenceTrade Review[A] fascinating story of society endeavoring to find an acceptable modern way to manage the aftermath of death... We now have a comprehensive and strong contextual account of the development of the modern inquest. -- Teresa Sutton Legal History Burney presents a convincing and sophisticated argument. -- Anne Crowther American Historical Review The book promises to enthrall not only the medical historian and philosopher but also today's doctors contemplating their relationship with the rest of society. -- Michael F. Maltese British Medical Journal This is an important book, deserving to be read by historians of politics and of the state as well as of medicine. It should stimulate research, for there is much still to be done on the activities of coroners, the political uses of inquests, and the changing political and jurisprudential role of expertise in the development of the modern state. -- Christopher Hamlin Medical History Ian A. Burney's book, Bodies of Evidence, examines how medical experts displaced the public in investigating suspicious deaths in England. Today, the displacement seems inevitable, the result of increased specialization, the rise of professional elites, and modern governments premised on a bureaucracy of experts. Bodies of Evidence, in a rich cultural mosaic, shows that the public ceded its role only reluctantly and uneasily. -- Laura B. Gilbert New York Law Journal [A] theoretically sophisticated study. -- Elisabeth Cawthon Journal of Interdisciplinary History Burney has avoided a dry, institutional history of the inquest by weaving together abstract concepts of openness, democracy, progress, knowledge, power, the body, ritual, and space with concrete discussions of law, medicine, and politics. -- Lori Williamson History: Reviews of New Books [A] theoretically nuanced work offering rich and original insights. Doody's This book provides an engaging and remarkably thorough history of neurology studded with bonbons of fascinating historical insights... Considering the current debates surrounding the provision of home care services and the roles to be played by informal care givers this book is timely and 'a must' for anyone interested in a true reflection on this topic. -- Shelly A. Martin Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 2002 As accessible as it is acute, Bodies of Evidence is a model of culturally and politically engaged, intellectually uncompromised historical scholarship. -- Roger Cooter Victorian Studies 2003 Carefully researched and comprehensively referenced study. -- Linda Bryder History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Genealogy of the Popular InquestChapter 2. Registers of Death: Inquests and the Regime of Vital StatisticsChapter 3. From the Alehouse to the Courthouse: Bodies and the Recasting of Inquest PracticeChapter 4. Telling Tales of the Dead: Inquests, Expertise, and the Postmortem QuestionChapter 5. Fatal Exposures: Anesthetic Death and the Limits of Public InquiryEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMinois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history-the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.Trade ReviewThis book, lucidly translated, makes compulsive reading. -- Roy Porter The Times of London Minois's book follows the religious, philosophical, literary, and judicial debate for and against self-murder from antiquity to the end of the Enlightenment, demonstrating the close connection between political power, religious authority, social status, and the freedom to die... Minois's study is detailed and thorough... Gory anecdotes and effective reference to overarching intellectual trends make the book edifying and morbidly enjoyable. Kirkus Reviews Minois... has provided a timely chronicle tracing the evolution of societal attitudes toward suicide... Minois writes in an unadorned, concise prose that aids him in treating a serious subject in a serious manner. Although his own convictions on the issue are clear, Minois treats both sides of our current debate with objectivity, understanding, and compassion. Booklist The History of suicide has come of age. After a century of sociological inquiry, historians over the last decade have now embraced this all-too-human act and have produced remarkable results. -- D. J. A. Matthew American Historical Review Minois has succeeded in pulling together a wide range of materials, and in reminding us how elite attitudes to suicide shifted, and that those shifts may well serve as pointers to some more general developments in the intellectual history of Europe. -- J. A. Sharpe Journal of Early Modern History A broad and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities of suicide. Continually reminding us that the legalities and theoretical discussions of suicide often do not coincide with the reality of suicide, Minois focuses his discussion around Hamlet's famous question, 'to be or not to be,' and this proves to be an effective way to organize and present the large and dense amount of material... This book provides a useful and impressive collection of data and an absorbing discussion of attitudes toward voluntary death. -- Elise P. Garrison Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Tradition: A Repressed Question Chapter 1: Suicide in the Middle Ages: Nuances Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Middle Ages: Between Madness and Despair Chapter 3: The Classical Heritage: Perfecting the Timely Exit Part II: The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Stifled Chapter 4: The Early Renaissance: Rediscovery of the Enigma of Suicide Chapter 5: To Be or Not To Be: The First Crisis of Conscience in Europe Chapter 6: The Seventeenth Century: Reaction and Repression Chapter 7: Substitutes for Suicide in the Seventeenth Century Part III: The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt-Free Chapter 8: The Birth of the English Malady, 1680-1720 Chapter 9: The Debate on Suicide in the Enlightenment: From Morality to Medicine Chapter 10: The Elite: From Philosophical Suicide to Romantic Suicide Chapter 11: The Common People: The Persistence of Ordinary Suicide Epilogue: From the French Revolution to the Twentieth Century, or, From Free Debate to Silence

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Book SynopsisOlson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe.Trade ReviewA well-written, accessible account of the history of breast cancer from ancient times to today... Olson simultaneously presents a history of breast cancer, culture, and science. His multi-layered analysis of the history of breast cancer is most striking when he demonstrates the differing attitudes toward therapy that American and European medical practitioners hold; and how the development of medicine in different areas of the globe affects the way breast cancer is treated... Overall, Olson's book is a satisfying examination of the history of breast cancer. It would be a welcome addition to a course dedicated to the history of medicine, the history of women in medicine, or gender history. -- Karol K. Weaver H-Women, H-Net Reviews An engaging historical survey of the interplay between the science of breast cancer and the wider culture of which it is a part. -- Richard Horton Times Literary Supplement An engrossing history... This book is definitely a thought-provoking read and reminds us that some diseases and their physical and emotional trauma transcend time. -- Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Family Tree Magazine An invaluable aid to those breast cancer survivors with an interest in taking the long view of their illness... Today's cancer research offers plenty of hope to all those courageous people on the journey initiated by their diagnosis, and Bathsheba's Breast is an important traveling companion whose most promising chapters have yet to be written. -- Nick Owchar Los Angeles Times 2003 Historian James S. Olson provides us with an extremely interesting and often terrifying history of breast cancer through the ages... An excellent, moving and informative read. CancerFutures In elegant, captivating prose, Bathsheba's Breast brings to life dramatic tales to illustrate the history of breast cancer treatment... The historical detail and absorbing storytelling appeal equally to scholarly and general audiences. -- Paula Viterbo History: Reviews of New Books James Olson's compelling book suggests that breast cancer is one of history's oldest diseases. From Queen Atossa of Persia, daughter of Cyrus, consort of Darius, mother of Xerxes, to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, isolated from medical help in Antarctica, who self-diagnosed and self-treated her cancer, he tells stories of the sufferers, their doctors and their treatments... It is impossible to read this book without being moved-by pity, horror, awe and respect at the suffering of ordinary women whose normal lives were cut short by abnormal malignancy; by anger at the longevity of some of the barbaric treatments and the dismissive arrogance of mutilating surgeons; but finally by hope that molecular biology, genetic counselling, and pharmaceutical innovation will produce if not a cure, then techniques to transform the disease from an acute killer into a treatable, chronic malaise. -- Tilli Tansey History Today James S. Olson has taken on the task of recounting the entire history of breast cancer-from Queen Atossa, who lived in Babylon in 490 B.C., to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, who was trapped in Antarctica in 1999-and has done it in a concise, attractive, enjoyable book. -- Susan Lester New England Journal of Medicine Provides a fascinating view of the ways in which culture, politics, and science interact... A lucid account of an ongoing war on a changing battlefield with at least the hope of new weapons. Kirkus Reviews Provides a most readable survey contrasting past and present options for breast cancer treatment. Library Bookwatch Utilizing accounts of the experiences of well-known historical figures from Anne of Austria to Linda McCartney, the author weaves a story important to every woman who fears breast cancer and to all those who care about her. An excellent, thought-provoking reference for lay audiences as well as health care professionals. Choice 2003 In sum, Bathsheba's Breast does an admirable job of summarizing the history of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. -- Barron H. Lerner Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2003 Olsen embarks on the complicated, current history of the multiple choices for the treatment of breast cancer since 1970... the inclusion of individual stories makes the debates very real and the outcomes not always positive. -- Mary Tarbox, EdD, RN Nursing History Review 2003 Olson... has written a book that is part history, packed with fascinating details about important figures from ancient times to the present, and part history of medicine... beyond all that, the author-who lost an arm to a recurring cancer and last year was diagnosed with brain cancer-bares his own humility. -- Marina Pisano San Antonio Express-News 2003 Honesty and empathy make the book worthwhile for lay and professional readers alike. -- Jessica B. Mandell Journal of Clinical Investigation 2005 [Olson's] honesty and empathy make the book worthwhile for lay and professional readers alike. Journal of Clinical Investigation 2005Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Prologue ACROSS TIME 1. Dark Ages 2. "Unkindest Cut of All" THE ORIGINS OF THE MASTECTOMY 3. William Stewert Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy 4. Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation 5. New Beginnings ASSAULT ON THE RADICAL MASTECTOMY 6. Beauty and the Breast THE GREAT AMERICAN OBSESSION 7. Out of the Closet BREAST CANCER IN THE 1970'S 8. Patient Heal Thyself QUACKS AND CURES IN THE AGE OF NARCISSISM 9. Choices MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE AGE OF LIBERATION 10. The Breast Cancer Wars 11. Biology, Society, and Destiny Epilogue THE NEW MILLENIUM Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBoth controversial and compelling, Valuing Animals uncovers the extent to which veterinary medicine has shaped-and been shaped by-this contradictory attitude.Trade ReviewA well-researched book that explores the impact of the value of an animal or its species in shaping the development of the veterinary profession. Vet Med Today A fascinating read and was refreshingly not a tale of inexorable scientific and medical progress toward an idyllic present... brings to light the hows and whys of veterinary medicine and gave me a measure of self-awareness of my professional roots and current role in American society. -- Jodie Gerdin Journal of the History of Medicine This study by Susan Jones is very welcome. Based on a wide variety of scientific and popular sources, she has approached the history of veterinary medicine and the veterinary profession in twentieth-century America from a perspective of changing human-animal relationships, particularly the changing economic and emotional value of domesticated animals... Original and compelling. -- Peter A. Koolmees Medical History Jones's study reveals particularly well the dynamic connections between the history of veterinary medicine and the history of American cultural preoccupations with animals. -- Nigel Rothfels American Historical Review [ Valuing Animals] stimulates thought about the role of veterinarians and how veterinarians interact with their patients and with people who seek guidance and confirmation as to the value of animals. Anthrozoos 2004 [Jones] has a compelling view, and this book is a gem. -- G. Terry Sharrer Journal of American History 2004 Jones' lively and well-written book traces the evolution of the veterinary profession in the twentieth century from the 'horse doctor' of 1900 to today's scientific practitioner. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2005 A fascinating survey of the changing relationships between Americans and their animals, as mediated by the veterinary profession. Choice 2003 Thoroughly researched, with extensive endnotes (many annotated) and an essay on sources, this book makes important contributions to the diverse fields of economic sociology, comparative medicine, human-animal relationships, American history, and American popular culture. Choice 2003Table of ContentsContents: PrefaceIntroduction1. Doctoring a Nation of Animals at the Century's Turn2. Valuable Patients Horses and the Domestic Animal Economy3. The Value of Animal Health for Human Health4. The Value in Numbers Creating "Factory Farms" at Midcentury5. Pricing the Priceless Pet6. Reconciling Use and HumanitarianismNotes Essay on Sources Index

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Book SynopsisHer insights will engage all those interested in America's historic and current battles with addiction.Trade ReviewFascinating. Tracy's book tells a compelling and revelatory story. New England Journal of Medicine 2006 Any reader interested in the subjects of alcoholism or addiction will find it worthwhile. History: Reviews of New Books 2006 A pathbreaking argument about what medicalization meant for patients as well as doctors and, more generally, American culture. Journal of American Culture 2006 Essential reading for any clinician with a historical bent. This valuable monograph traces the tension between moralism and science in the understanding of alcoholism. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2006 Tracy sets a new standard of sophistication in this lucid exposition of alcohol as 'a complicated cultural signifier.' Journal of American History 2006 One of the signal achievements of Alcoholism in America is its thorough historicization of modern understandings of alcohol abuse. Reviews in American History 2006 Offers historical insight into the sources and solutions to alcohol-related problems... This book will find many appreciative audiences. -- William L. White Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 2006 Meticulous and smart... An important contribution to the field of alcohol and temperance history. -- Elaine Frantz Parsons American Historical Review 2006 This excellent volume reworks intellectual territory opened up in the 1970s and 1980s by members of the Alcohol Research Group. -- Katherine A. Chavigny Journal of the History of Medicine 2006 The most interesting aspect of the book is her analysis of the complex mix of medical and moral considerations that informed the approach to alcoholism over the period. -- Luc Berlivet Medical History 2007 Tells new and important histories of people's efforts to find a cure for themselves or others and provides examples of heartbreaking failures. Her book enriches our reading of reform in this period. -- Rachel E. Bohlmann Annals of Iowa 2006 [Tracy's] fine book illuminates a neglected and often misunderstood chapter in the history of alcohol and alcoholism. JAMA 2008 This is an excellent book... full of interesting case studies, anecdotes and historical insights. It is well worth reading by all of those who have an interest in the way in which we currently construe alcohol policy, and is a brimful of reminders that we are regularly in danger of reinventing the heel unless we carefully study the history of this ubiquitous and puzzling problem. -- E.B. Ritson Alcohol and Alcoholism 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Disease Concept(s) of Inebriety2. Cultural Framing of Inebriety3. Institutional Solutions for Inebriety4. Public Inebriate Hospitals and Farm Colonies5. The "Foxborough Experiment"6. Building a Boozatorium7. On the Vice and Disease of InebrietyConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisEpidemics continue to threaten us today. What do our responses to these threats say about our priorities? Will the security of public health remain a privilege of a few powerful countries or will poorer countries benefit from the efforts of the rich to prevent the spread of disease inside their own borders?Trade ReviewBourdelais covers heavily traversed grounds in public health history, though providing his own insights along the way. -- Linda Bryder Health and History 2007Table of ContentsIntroduction to the English-Language EditionIntroduction1. The Plague EraFrom the Plague of the Philistines to Justinian's PlagueThe Black DeathThe Price of GrowthDecisions to Protect HealthBad Air—or Planetary Misalignment?Flagellants and PogromsThe Danse Macabre and the Apocalypse2. Modernity: New Concepts of the State and the BodyEconomies of ScaleThe Care of the BodyA Cure at Any CostThe Decline of MortalityFrom Helvétius to Vicq d'AzyrFresh Air and Clean WaterVaccination and the ElitesVaccination's Astonishing SuccessA Short-lived Success?3. Cholera: The Return of Epidemic Disease and the Abandonment of Traditional Protective MeasuresContagion or Infection?The Cholera Epidemic as a Natural ExperimentHealth through IsolationDisease as Population ControlThe Mobilization of Political and Technical ResourcesTurning Away from Traditional Protective Measures4. The "English System": New Methods Gain AcceptanceThe English InitiativeCleanliness or Poverty?The New QuarantineThe New Sanitary FrontierSocial Stigmatization and HealthThe War on SyphilisBlaming the Victims: New Mothers5. The Sanitary Reform Movement: From Miasma Theory to Departments of HealthSanitary ReformersMaternity Wars: Should They Be Closed Down?The Effects of Better NurtitionCity Health Departments, 1879–1900The Importance of Municipal Policies6. Vaccination: A Powerful ParadigmSmallpox Vaccination: The Difficult Road to AcceptanceBacteriology and New VaccinesPasteur's Laboratory InvestigationsTuberculosis: Feared, Resistant, and RomanticThe Twentieth Century: New Vaccines despite Theoretical UncertaintiesObjections to VaccinationOrganized Political Opposition7. The Era of Spectacular VictoriesBacteriology's Successes: Sulfamides and AntibioticsVictory over TuberculosisIndustrialization and the Expansion of DemandGovernment Programs8. The End of a Dream?Resistance and Emerging and Re-emerging InfectionsThe Thunderbolt: AIDSWhat about the Rest of the World?ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTo fill this void, Frank and Glied suggest that institutional resources be applied systematically and routinely to examine and address how federal and state programs affect the well-being of people with mental illness.Trade ReviewOffers many insights beneficial to the informed reader. -- David Mechanic New England Journal of Medicine 2006 The authors are true to their word in providing an excellent overview of changes in the last 50 years. They provide compelling evidence that the condition of many, if not most, persons with mental illness has improved during that period. JAMA 2007 Will be of greatest interest to students of mental health economics, services, and policy, but clinicians interested in the relationship between health policy and everyday practice will also find it useful. -- Burton V. Reifler International Psychogeriatrics 2007 Provides a necessary counterpart to much overenthusiastic optimism surrounding recent development in psychopharmacology and the neurosciences. -- Bonnie Evans Journal of Mental Health 2008 Offers a fascinating... historical analysis of mental health policy. -- Ellen Dwyer History of Psychiatry 2008 Should be assigned to every practitioner, mental health clinician, administrator, and advocate - as well as every legislator and policy maker - concerned with the status of Americans with serious mental illness. -- William Fisher Psychiatric Services 2007 If one... has time to read one book on mental health policy this year, this should be the one. -- Roger Meyer Health Affairs 2007 A comprehensive assessment of changes in the life conditions and well-being of persons with serious mental illnesses over the past five decades. -- Janet R. Nelson Clergy Journal 2008 A well-written and important work that provides a definitive look at the past and a glimpse into the future of mental health policy in America. -- Kathleen Brown RN, MSN, PhD Nursing History Review 2009Table of ContentsForewordPreface1. Introduction2. The Population with Mental Illness3. The Evolving Technology of Mental Health Care4. Health Care Financing and Income Support5. The Supply of Mental Health Services6. Policy Making in Mental Health: Integration, Mainstreaming, and Shifting Institutions7. Assessing the Well-being of People with Mental Illness8. Looking Forward: Improving the Well-being of People with Mental IllnessNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis engaging study will be of interest to historians, medical practitioners and researchers, and people whose lives have been altered by cancer.Trade ReviewKrueger has written an important book. -- Barron Lerner Lancet 2008 Hope and Suffering is an apt title for this dense, encyclopedic, and riveting book. It includes narratives from patients and their family members that detail the hope, suffering, and despair of the first two decades of cancer therapy, followed by the optimism and successes of the present...Author Gretchen Krueger recounts these stories in considerable detail and references them exquisitely. New England Journal of Medicine 2009 It would be of value in any medical humanities course. -- Emm Barnes Medical History 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Glioma Babies," Families, and Cancer in Children in the 1930s2. "Cancer, The Child Killer": Jimmy and the Redefinition of a Dread Disease3. Death Be Not Proud: Children, Families, and Cancer in Postwar America4. "Against All Odds": Chemotherapy and the Medical Management of Acute Leukemia in the 1950s5. "Who's Afraid of Death on the Leukemia Ward?": Remission, Relapse, and Child Death in the 1960s and 1970s6. "The Truly Cured Child": Prolonged Survival and the Late Effects of CancerConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA cancer survivor who has himself been treated at the center, Olson imbues this history with humor, passion, and humanity.Trade ReviewOlson illuminates the struggle to understand and treat cancer in the United States. As a cancer survivor treated at the center, Olson imbues M.D. Anderson's history with humor, passion and humanity. Oncology Nursing Forum 2009 A meticulously researched and well-written book... Making Cancer History is a good read and well worth a look. -- Helen Valier Social History of Medicine 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. R. Lee Clark, History, and the Dread Disease2. Present at the Creation3. Designing a Dream, 1946–19504. The Pink Palace, 1950–19555. Changing Paradigms, 1956–19636. M. D. Anderson and the Rise of Medical Oncology, 1964–19697. The Summit, 1970–19718. Waging War and Fading Away, 1971–19779. Charles A. LeMaistre and the Consolidation of Excellence, 1978–198310. Chasing the Devil, 1984–198811. Victory, Defeat, and an Elusive Enemy, 1988–199612. John Mendelsohn and the New Frontiers in Oncology, 1996–200013. New Offensives, 2001–200714. Tipping History?EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAs American women make decisions about anesthesia today, Deliver Me from Pain offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions.Trade ReviewIt is sometimes difficult to reconcile the attitudes of contemporary thought with the historical event that is under consideration. As I closed the book, I was still uncertain about whether more anesthesia is better. But I am relieved that we live in an era in which it is no longer accepted that there is a physiological advantage to pain during labor. -- Samuel Lurie, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2009 I would recommend this book to health professionals who are committed to understanding and acknowledging that every woman experiences childbirth in an individual and unique manner. -- Carol Piercey Health and History 2009 It is perhaps Wolf's utter engagement with the material that is responsible for producing such a dynamic history. -- Cara Kinzelman Journal of the History of Biology 2009 Wolf opens her readers' eyes to the vast history that has layered the medical community's ignorance onto a persistent belief that childbirth is the worst pain a human will ever experience, then topped it off with a population's growing need to 'schedule' birth into our increasingly busy lives, and come up with a society... [that] should not-really, cannot-labor without numbing their bodies to the sensations of birth. Midwifery Today 2010 Much needed addition to the blossoming scholarly work on childbirth history. -- Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. Women's Review of Books 2010 Wolf has written a fascinating overview of childbirth from the 1840s to the present day. In doing so she has used women's voices to advantage, letting them tell their own experiences. -- Wendy Mitchinson Medical History 2010 Wolf's unique focus on pain management brings a fresh perspective to the literature about childbirth and new understandings of this life-changing event in women's lives and histories. -- Rebecca M. Kluchin Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2010 Wolf has delivered a beautiful product that is... joyful to encounter. -- Philip K. Wilson American Historical Review 2010 Deliver Me from Pain is an important addition to the literature, especially in the history of gender and pharmaceuticals... An absorbing and informative tale. -- Shannon K. Withycombe Pharmacy in History 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Terrible Torture" or "The Nicest Sensation I've Ever Had"?: Conflicting Perceptions of Labor in U.S. History1. Ether and Chloroform: The Question of Necessity, 1840s through 1890s2. Twilight Sleep: The Question of Professional Respect, 1890s through 1930s3. Developing the Obstetric Anesthesia Arsenal: The Question of Safety, 1900 through 1960s4. Giving Birth to the Baby Boomers: The Question of Convenience, 1940s through 1960s5. Natural Childbirth and Birth Reform: The Question of Authority, 1950s through 1980s6. Epidural Anesthesia and Cesarean Section: The Question of Choice, 1970s to the PresentGlossary of Medical TerminologyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIt offers information and insight to policymakers, medical and legal professionals, patients and other participants, and everyone else interested in the history and future direction of the field.Trade ReviewAlthough, the focus is on law, the writing is clear and accessible, and background information is supplied for nonlawyers. JAMA 2010Table of ContentsPreface, by Susan L. CrockinIntroductionLaw 101: A Selective Primer for the NonlawyerAssisted Reproductive Technology Time Lines, Medical and Legal1. Embryo Litigation2. Access to ART Treatment: Insurance and Discrimination3. General Professional Liability Litigation4. Paternity and Sperm Donation5. Maternity and Egg Donation6. Traditional and Gestational Surrogacy Arrangements7. Posthumous Reproduction: Access and Parentage8. Same-Sex Parentage and ART9. Genetics (PGD) and ART10. ART-Related Embryonic Stem Cell Legal Developments11. ART-Related Adoption Litigation12. ART-Related Fetal Litigation and Abortion-Related LitigationConclusionTable of CasesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.Trade ReviewWhat makes his essays so enjoyable and alive... is their leaping range of reference, always running one step ahead and urging us to catch up. -- Jenny Uglow New York Review of Books 2010 Professor Shapin has a sense of humor, a good eye for an anecdote and the ability to turn a phrase. -- Katherine Bouton New York Times 2010 While it might not be for novices, anyone who is interested in how and why science enjoys a privileged position as a source of knowledge should read Shapin's take on the authority given to it vis-a-vis religion and morality, why it is compliment to be both a gentleman and a scholar, and why it matters whether Newton ate chicken or Darwin farted. Seed Magazine 2010 An impressive work and one that scientists will benefit from reading. Shapin reminds us that... neither scientists nor science itself can be separated from the context of peoples' minds, bodies, cultures, societies. Expectations based on any other understanding are simply unrealistic. -- Sam Lemonick Chemical and Engineering News 2010 He is a graceful and engaging essayist, and the ample selection of essays in Never Pure ... affords an excellent basis for reflecting on what he has had to say about the life of science. -- Robert E. Kohler Science 2010 Never Pure will enrich the bookshelf of any historian of science. -- Katy Barrett Endeavour 2010Table of ContentsPreface1. Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble CallingPart I: Methods and Maxims2. Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science3. How to Be Antiscientific4. Science and Prejudice in Historical PerspectivePart II: Places and Practices5. The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-century England6. Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary TechnologyPart III: The Scientific Person7. "The Mind Is Its Own Place": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-century England8. "A Scholar and a Gentleman": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Seventeenth-century England9. Who Was Robert Hooke?10. Who Is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop Floor in the United States, ca. 1900–ca. 1970Part IV: The Body of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Body11. The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge12. How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern EnglandPart V: The World of Science and the World of Common Sense13. Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-century Dietetic Medicine14. Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science for Example15. Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its TherapiesPart VI: Science and Modernity16. Science and the Modern WorldNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing from a wide range of scholarly research, archival records, and interviews, The Estrogen Elixir provides valuable historical context for one of the most pressing debates in contemporary medicine.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, and one I would heartily recommend to anyone with an interest in the history of the health sciences or the history of the women's movement. Doody's Review Service 2007 Much has been written about post-menopausal estrogen therapy... This wonderful book tells the story. -- Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2007 A good read. -- Wulf H. Utian Journal of Clinical Investigation 2008 The Estrogen Elixir sets a high standard for future histories of pharmaceuticals and of aging. -- Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer Journal of American History 2007 This book takes an in-depth, socially analytical look at the evolution of menopausal hormone therapy in the United States, with a focus on estrogen since its discovery... Watkins tells the story accurately and objectively. No accusations and no praise, just the facts. -- K. Eddie Gabry, MD, MS JAMA 2008 Watkins provides a fascinating, multi-faceted study of HRT, leaving no voices out of the debate. -- Wendy Kline History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2007 Watkins presents a detailed account of the historical record of the subject. -- Carlos Sonnenschein Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008 More than a medical history of HRT. It is also a history of the medicalization of women's health and changing cultural attitudes toward aging, femininity, female identity, women's health activism, and the science of drug evaluations. -- Dominique Tobbel Chemical Heritage Magazine 2008 A fascinating aspect of Watkins's story is how drugs can be rebranded in the face of falling sales. -- Bruno J. Strasser Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 2008 A significant work on the social history of American medicine and a major contribution to the growing literature on hormonal therapeutics and research. -- Chandak Sengoopta Isis 2008 Estrogen Elixir has many strengths... a commendable and welcome addition to emerging literature in modern women's health history. -- Suzanne Junod, Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beginnings2. From the ''Neutral Gender'' to ''Feminine Forever''3. Selling Estrogen to Doctors4. Selling Estrogen to Women5. From Hero to Villain: Estrogen and Endometrial Cancer6. Enter the Feminists: Informing Women about Estrogen7. Enter the FDA: A Patient Package Insert for Estrogen8. Resurrecting Estrogen, I: Osteoporosis and Medical Science9. Resurrecting Estrogen, II: Osteoporosis and American Culture10. Skeptics and Believers: Varieties of Women's Responses11. Weighing the Benefits and Risks of HRT: Estrogen, Heart Disease, and Breast Cancer12. 1992: The Year of the Menopause13. Meno-Boomers: Another Generation Confronts Estrogen14. The ''Gold Standard'': Estrogen and the Randomized Controlled TrialsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBertoloni Meli's critical study of this key figure and the works of his contemporaries-including Borelli, Swammerdam, Redi, and Ruysch-opens a wonderful window onto the scientific and medical worlds of the seventeenth century.Trade ReviewThe strength of Meli's work lies in his attention to detail in highly complex Latin works, and in his sensitivity to unpublished work, correspondence, diaries, and above all, to the technologies of illustration. -- William Poole Times Higher Education Distinguished as this work was, in Mechanism, Experiment, Disease Domenico Bertoloni Meli maintains there is a great deal more to Marcello Malpighi. In this new book-part biography, part intellectual history of anatomy (the philosophy and mechanics of the body), and part history of medicine in the 17th century-Bertoloni Meli tells readers why. What he does wonderfully is to locate Malpighi as a practicing physician during Italy's scientific revolution. Bertoloni Meli conveys the excitement of the new science, voices the tumult that ensued as opposing schools of thought clashed, and reminds readers that priority disputes are nothing new. JAMA Bertoloni Meli makes great use of Malpighi's wonderful epistolary consultations to remind readers that boundaries between research and practice have been drawn too sharply by historians. His use of overlooked medical correspondence increases the presence of Malpighi, the medical practitioner, working from bench to bedside four centuries before translational research hit the headlines. -- Helen Bynum JAMA The most comprehensive account to date of the works of Marcello Malpighi. -- Stephanie Eichberg The British Journal for the History of Science Bertoloni Meli's book is a very valuable and welcome contribution to the ongoing reassessment of the Scientific Revolution as a manifold process that involved all areas of natural knowledge-from physics to medicine-and reconfigured each and their mutual relations. -- Maria Pia Donato Isis Among the many lessons to be taken from Domenico Bertoloni Meli's carefully researched, persuasive and, at times, beautifully rendered book is that the life sciences in the early modern period must be studied with an eye to the history of science, medicine and philosophy... There is too much to praise and to learn from Meli's book to do it justice in a short review such as this. For several years now his work has represented a vital and inspiring force in the history medicine, and Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy in particular will enliven the study of early modern medicine in ways we cannot pretend to anticipate. But one thing we are confident about is that Meli's latest book should shape the new work to be done on eighteenth-century notions of mechanism, the emergence of pathology, and the history of visualization and its practices. -- Cynthia Klestinec and Gideon Manning MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Anatomy, Medicine, and the New Philosophy1. Anatomical Research in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century2. Malpighi's Role on the Anatomical Stage3. Medical Locations: The Sites of Malpighi's Work4. Mechanism and Mechanics5. Experiment and Collaboration6. Disease and Anatomy7. Structure and OrganizationPart I: The Rise of Mechanistic and Microscopic Anatomy: Malpighi's Formation and Association with Borelli1. The New Anatomy, the Lungs, and Respiration1.1. Changing Anatomical Horizons1.2. Malpighi's Bologna Apprenticeship: Anatomical Venues and Vivisection1.3. Malpighi's Pisa Apprenticeship: Microscopy and the New Philosophy1.4. Malpighi's Epistolae on the Lungs1.5. The Purpose of Respiration: Thruston, Lower, and Hooke2. Epidemic Fevers and the Challenge to Galenism2.1. Galenic Traditions and New Medical Thinking2.2. Borelli and the Sicilian Epidemics of 1647–482.3. Borelli, Malpighi, and the Pisa Epidemics of 16612.4. The 1665 Controversy between the Neoterics and the Galenists2.5. Malpighi's Risposta to Galenistarum triumphus3. The Anatomy of the Brain and of the Sensory Organs3.1. Atomism and the Anatomy of the Senses3.2. Brain Research in the 1660s: Willis, Steno, and Malpighi3.3. Malpighi's Anatomical Findings on Taste and Touch3.4. Fracassati's Far-Reaching Investigations3.5. Bellini and Rossetti: Atomistic Anatomy of Taste and TouchPart II: Secretion and the Mechanical Organization of the Body: Glands as the Centerpiece of Malpighi's Investigations4. The Glandular Structure of the Viscera4.1. The Revival of Glands4.2. Changing Perceptions on Glands: Glisson, Wharton, and Steno4.3. Malpighi's Treatise on the Liver4.4. The Brain and the Cerebral Cortex4.5. The Kidneys: Bellini and Malpighi4.6. The Spleen and Its Problems5. Fat, Blood, and the Body's Organization5.1. The Necessity of Matter and the Animal's Benefit5.2. Descartes on Fat, Blood, and Nutrition5.3. Malpighi on Fat and Its Philosophical Implications5.4. Blood Transfusions5.5. Malpighi on Heart Polyps and the Nature of Blood6. The Structure of Glands and the Problem of Secretion6.1. Different Perspectives on Glands6.2. Intestinal Glands and Their Implications6.3. The Mode of Operation of Glands6.4. Glands in the Theatre: Bellini, Sbaraglia, and Malpighi6.5. Nuck's New Taxonomy of GlandsPart III: Between Anatomy and Natural History: Malpighi andthe Royal Society7. The Challenge of Insects7.1. Changing Perceptions on Insects7.2. Redi: Experiments and Generation7.3. Malpighi: Historia and Anatomy7.4. Swammerdam: Metamorphosis and Classification7.5. Swammerdam and Malpighi: Microstructure and Iconography8. Generation and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg8.1. Generation and Its Problems8.2. Harvey: Epigenesis and the Role of the Faculties8.3. The Organs of Generation and the Problem of Fecundation8.4. Swammerdam and the Amsterdam Circle on Preformation8.5. Malpighi and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg9. The Anatomy of Plants9.1. Plants between Anatomy and Natural History9.2. Malpighi's Anatomy of Plants: Structure, Iconography, and Experiment9.3. Trionfetti, Malpighi, Cestoni, and the Vegetation of Plants9.4. Grew and Camerarius: Iconography, "OEconomy," and SexualReproductionPart IV: Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapy: Malpighi's Posthumous Writings10. The Fortunes of Malpighi's Mechanistic Anatomy10.1. Mechanistic Anatomy and Malpighi's Vita10.2. Writing about the Self10.3. Levels of Mechanical Explanation in Borelli and Malpighi10.4. Paolo Mini and the Soul-Body Problem10.5. Ruysch's Challenge and Boerhaave11. From the New Anatomy to Pathology and Therapy11.1. A Bologna Controversy and Its Wider Implications11.2. Sbaraglia's Challenge to Malpighi's Research11.3. Malpighi: The Medical Signifi cance of the New Anatomy11.4. Sbaraglia's Empiricism and Methodological Concerns11.5. Young Morgagni's Covert Intervention12. Medical Consultations12.1. Between Theory and Practice, Carnival and Lent12.2. Publishing Malpighi's Consultations12.3. Structure and Contents of Malpighi's Consultations12.4. Curing with the Pen: Francesco Redi12.5. A Broader Look at Medical Consultations: Vallisneri and MorgagniEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisBertoloni Meli's critical study of this key figure and the works of his contemporaries-including Borelli, Swammerdam, Redi, and Ruysch-opens a wonderful window onto the scientific and medical worlds of the seventeenth century.Trade ReviewThe strength of Meli's work lies in his attention to detail in highly complex Latin works, and in his sensitivity to unpublished work, correspondence, diaries, and above all, to the technologies of illustration. -- William Poole Times Higher Education Distinguished as this work was, in Mechanism, Experiment, Disease Domenico Bertoloni Meli maintains there is a great deal more to Marcello Malpighi. In this new book-part biography, part intellectual history of anatomy (the philosophy and mechanics of the body), and part history of medicine in the 17th century-Bertoloni Meli tells readers why. What he does wonderfully is to locate Malpighi as a practicing physician during Italy's scientific revolution. Bertoloni Meli conveys the excitement of the new science, voices the tumult that ensued as opposing schools of thought clashed, and reminds readers that priority disputes are nothing new. JAMA Bertoloni Meli makes great use of Malpighi's wonderful epistolary consultations to remind readers that boundaries between research and practice have been drawn too sharply by historians. His use of overlooked medical correspondence increases the presence of Malpighi, the medical practitioner, working from bench to bedside four centuries before translational research hit the headlines. -- Helen Bynum JAMA The most comprehensive account to date of the works of Marcello Malpighi. -- Stephanie Eichberg The British Journal for the History of Science Bertoloni Meli's book is a very valuable and welcome contribution to the ongoing reassessment of the Scientific Revolution as a manifold process that involved all areas of natural knowledge-from physics to medicine-and reconfigured each and their mutual relations. -- Maria Pia Donato Isis Among the many lessons to be taken from Domenico Bertoloni Meli's carefully researched, persuasive and, at times, beautifully rendered book is that the life sciences in the early modern period must be studied with an eye to the history of science, medicine and philosophy... There is too much to praise and to learn from Meli's book to do it justice in a short review such as this. For several years now his work has represented a vital and inspiring force in the history medicine, and Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy in particular will enliven the study of early modern medicine in ways we cannot pretend to anticipate. But one thing we are confident about is that Meli's latest book should shape the new work to be done on eighteenth-century notions of mechanism, the emergence of pathology, and the history of visualization and its practices. -- Cynthia Klestinec and Gideon Manning MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Anatomy, Medicine, and the New Philosophy1. Anatomical Research in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century2. Malpighi's Role on the Anatomical Stage3. Medical Locations: The Sites of Malpighi's Work4. Mechanism and Mechanics5. Experiment and Collaboration6. Disease and Anatomy7. Structure and OrganizationPart I: The Rise of Mechanistic and Microscopic Anatomy: Malpighi's Formation and Association with Borelli1. The New Anatomy, the Lungs, and Respiration1.1. Changing Anatomical Horizons1.2. Malpighi's Bologna Apprenticeship: Anatomical Venues and Vivisection1.3. Malpighi's Pisa Apprenticeship: Microscopy and the New Philosophy1.4. Malpighi's Epistolae on the Lungs1.5. The Purpose of Respiration: Thruston, Lower, and Hooke2. Epidemic Fevers and the Challenge to Galenism2.1. Galenic Traditions and New Medical Thinking2.2. Borelli and the Sicilian Epidemics of 1647–482.3. Borelli, Malpighi, and the Pisa Epidemics of 16612.4. The 1665 Controversy between the Neoterics and the Galenists2.5. Malpighi's Risposta to Galenistarum triumphus3. The Anatomy of the Brain and of the Sensory Organs3.1. Atomism and the Anatomy of the Senses3.2. Brain Research in the 1660s: Willis, Steno, and Malpighi3.3. Malpighi's Anatomical Findings on Taste and Touch3.4. Fracassati's Far-Reaching Investigations3.5. Bellini and Rossetti: Atomistic Anatomy of Taste and TouchPart II: Secretion and the Mechanical Organization of the Body: Glands as the Centerpiece of Malpighi's Investigations4. The Glandular Structure of the Viscera4.1. The Revival of Glands4.2. Changing Perceptions on Glands: Glisson, Wharton, and Steno4.3. Malpighi's Treatise on the Liver4.4. The Brain and the Cerebral Cortex4.5. The Kidneys: Bellini and Malpighi4.6. The Spleen and Its Problems5. Fat, Blood, and the Body's Organization5.1. The Necessity of Matter and the Animal's Benefit5.2. Descartes on Fat, Blood, and Nutrition5.3. Malpighi on Fat and Its Philosophical Implications5.4. Blood Transfusions5.5. Malpighi on Heart Polyps and the Nature of Blood6. The Structure of Glands and the Problem of Secretion6.1. Different Perspectives on Glands6.2. Intestinal Glands and Their Implications6.3. The Mode of Operation of Glands6.4. Glands in the Theatre: Bellini, Sbaraglia, and Malpighi6.5. Nuck's New Taxonomy of GlandsPart III: Between Anatomy and Natural History: Malpighi andthe Royal Society7. The Challenge of Insects7.1. Changing Perceptions on Insects7.2. Redi: Experiments and Generation7.3. Malpighi: Historia and Anatomy7.4. Swammerdam: Metamorphosis and Classification7.5. Swammerdam and Malpighi: Microstructure and Iconography8. Generation and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg8.1. Generation and Its Problems8.2. Harvey: Epigenesis and the Role of the Faculties8.3. The Organs of Generation and the Problem of Fecundation8.4. Swammerdam and the Amsterdam Circle on Preformation8.5. Malpighi and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg9. The Anatomy of Plants9.1. Plants between Anatomy and Natural History9.2. Malpighi's Anatomy of Plants: Structure, Iconography, and Experiment9.3. Trionfetti, Malpighi, Cestoni, and the Vegetation of Plants9.4. Grew and Camerarius: Iconography, "OEconomy," and SexualReproductionPart IV: Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapy: Malpighi's Posthumous Writings10. The Fortunes of Malpighi's Mechanistic Anatomy10.1. Mechanistic Anatomy and Malpighi's Vita10.2. Writing about the Self10.3. Levels of Mechanical Explanation in Borelli and Malpighi10.4. Paolo Mini and the Soul-Body Problem10.5. Ruysch's Challenge and Boerhaave11. From the New Anatomy to Pathology and Therapy11.1. A Bologna Controversy and Its Wider Implications11.2. Sbaraglia's Challenge to Malpighi's Research11.3. Malpighi: The Medical Signifi cance of the New Anatomy11.4. Sbaraglia's Empiricism and Methodological Concerns11.5. Young Morgagni's Covert Intervention12. Medical Consultations12.1. Between Theory and Practice, Carnival and Lent12.2. Publishing Malpighi's Consultations12.3. Structure and Contents of Malpighi's Consultations12.4. Curing with the Pen: Francesco Redi12.5. A Broader Look at Medical Consultations: Vallisneri and MorgagniEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIt wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature’s greatest creations. Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation, recounting fifty years of false starts, abysmal failures and miraculous triumphs, as experienced by one the world’s foremost heart surgeons, O.H. “Bud” Frazier, who has given his life to saving the un-savable.  His journey takes him from a small town in west Texas to one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions, The Texas Heart Institute, from the halls of Congress to the animal laboratories where calves are fitted

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Women and Medicine provides a comprehensive and definitive history, from early riots in medical schools when women tried to enroll, to women finally overcoming obstacles, making medical breakthroughs and enjoying brilliant medical careers.Trade ReviewThis third edition of Women and Medicine provides a comprehensive and definitive history of the topic. * Hispanic Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 1 The Dinosaur Is Twitching: Famous Firsts Chapter 2 2 To Be a Doctor in America: Overcoming Obstacles Chapter 3 3 Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Surgeons General and Presidents' Doctors Chapter 4 4 Historical Perspectives: Midwives and Doctors around the Globe Chapter 5 5 Women on the March: Civil War Heroines Chapter 6 6 Pioneers, O Pioneers!: Then and Now Chapter 7 7 One University's Contributions: Those Remarkable Johns Hopkins Women Chapter 8 8 Oh, Brave New World: Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine Chapter 9 9 Women's Proper Place: Our Biological Selves Chapter 10 10 A Peaceful Revolution: The Fight for Birth Control Chapter 11 11 What Was the Doctor Wearing?: From White Coats to Space Suits

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Book SynopsisFor two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. In England, cows attack their owners in the milking parlors, while in the American West, thousands of deer starve to death in fields full of grass.What these strange conditions-including fatal familial insomnia, kuru, scrapie, and mad cow disease-share is their cause: prions. Prions are ordinary proteins that sometimes go wrong, resulting in neurological illnesses that are always fatal. Even more mysterious and frightening, prions are almost impossible to destroy because they are not alive and have no DNA-and the diseases they bring are now spreading around the wo

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Book SynopsisExamines Appalachia’s long relationship with the global trade in medicinal plants.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a controversial charlatan who transformed 20th century medicine, American politics, and radio broadcasting.

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Book SynopsisAn estimated six million people perished in the famine of 1921-23 in Soviet Russia and Ukraine, but millions survived thanks to American food and medical relief. This book, illustrated with photographs, posters, and documents, focuses on the lesser-known role of the medical intervention, including a large-scale vaccination drive.Trade Review"I was quite unaware of the degree of suffering, tragedy, and heroism playing out in Russia after the Great War. . Patenaude and Stevenson's beautifully researched tale is compelling reading."—Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Cutting for Stone"A story of generosity and tenacity. This book, strikingly illustrated with photographs, posters, and documents, focuses on the unsung yet vitally important battle against the ravages of disease and malnutrition in the midst of famine."—Mary Cox, assistant professor of international relations, Central European University"A beautifully compelling and deeply inspiring story of altruism and ingenuity at its best. Essential reading for anyone interested in the human face of public health, medicine, and international relations."—Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS, associate dean for maternal and child health and professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of MedicineTable of ContentsForeword by Michele BarryDirector’ s Foreword by Eric WakinAcknowledgments.Note to the Reader1. “ Give Bread and Medicine” 2. Medical Famine3. The Terror of Typhus4. The Ghost of Cholera5. The Plight of Physicians6. Maladies and Remedies7. More Precious Than BreadTimeline of US Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921– 1923Selected BibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining the Circulation, Commodification, and Organization of Healing Goods and Healing Knowledge

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Book SynopsisA Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious diseases, from their prehistoric origins to the present. A new afterword explores the origins of Covid-19 and examines how governments across the globe dealt with the most serious public health emergency in a...

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Book SynopsisThis extraordinary biographical novel is a faithful account of the heroic life of Dr. Max Gerson, originator of the most significant medically-based cure for cancer to emerge in modern times. Beginning in 1933, the novel details Gerson's flight from Nazi Germany and the subsequent struggles of Andrej Markhoff (an emigre Russian aristocrat and former patient) to write the doctor's story. Years later, Guliano Dego recovers Markoff's papers and is at once captured by the drama of Gerson's life. He travels to Mexico, to Gerson's clinic in exile, where he observes the method first-hand and uncovers new and shocking facts in the plot to suppress Gerson's work. In the novel's gripping denouement, the author finally discovers both the fate of Andrej Markoff and the forces behind international medical collusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the thousands of health seekers who journeyed to New Mexico from 1870 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time -- and is today the leading infectious killer worldwide. By 1920, 10% of all New Mexico residents were TB sufferers who had come to the state for the fresh air, the high, dry climate, and the endless sunshine thought beneficial to the illness. Writers, painters, architects, doctors, lawyers, business leaders -- all of these came for the cure and many stayed to form influential salons or play a critical role in the state''s struggle for statehood. The story of art, health and financial growth has a seedy underside, however, when it was discovered the native Hispanos and American Indians were being infected by the influx of lungers. Many of these people were neglected and died. Then, when the prosperous era of health seekers moving to New Mexico ended, it ended quickly -- antibiotics became available and were a reliable cure. The sanatoriums closed; a legacy with many points of light remains.

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Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving t

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