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Springer Ferdinand Sauerbruch – Meisterchirurg im
Book SynopsisWolfgang U. Eckart setzt sich vornehmlich mit dem politischen Sauerbruch – oder besser: der politischen Selbstinszenierung des großen Chirurgen – im Wandel der Systeme, die seinen Lebensweg begleiteten, auseinander. Insbesondere die über weite Strecken von seinem Ghostwriter konstruierte, teilweise erfundene ‚Autobiographie’ „Das war mein Leben“ hat dem Publikum zusammen mit dem auf ihrer Grundlage entstandenen Spielfilm einen idolhaften Artztypus vorgehalten, der möglicherweise für mindestens eine ganze Generation junger Mediziner vorbildhaft wirkte. Aber Sauerbruch entsprach diesem entworfenen Bild nicht. Er hat sich auf eine bisweilen schwer verständliche, bisweilen sogar unerträgliche Weise mit den jeweiligen politischen Machthabern arrangiert und gleichzeitig immer wieder auch Ambivalenzen und Brüche offenbart. Table of ContentsBiographisches und Karriere.- Chirurgische Innovationen.- Weltanschauung und politische Positionierungen.- Die Vermarktung Sauerbruchs nach Kriegsende.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Epidemien und Pandemien in historischer
Book SynopsisIm Zentrum dieses Sammelbandes stehen neue Forschungsergebnisse interdisziplinärer Autorinnen und Autoren aus sieben Ländern zum Thema Seuchen. Seuchen verbreiten zunächst Unsicherheiten, so dass historische Beispiele und Denkweisen herangezogen werden, um Gefahren zu erkennen und Gegenmaßnahmen zu treffen. Solche Traditionen lassen sich über Jahrhunderte zurück verfolgen. So werden in diesem Band die Rekonstruktion von Fakten in Zeit und Raum (global vs. local) sowie die Einflüsse auf das Kulturleben (cultural impact) und die der Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Science studies) analysiert. Einführend und abschließend werden Forschungsstand und -perspektiven zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin diskutiert.Table of ContentsThe Global and The Local.- Decameron Revisited: Cultural Impact.-Men vs. Microbes, and Other Science Studies
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Springer Sexualgeschichte: Überblick – Problemfelder –
Book SynopsisDie Sexualgeschichte ist keine eigenständige Disziplin, sondern Teilaspekt natur-, geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Fächer sowie häufiges Thema gesellschaftspolitischer Diskussionen. Florian G. Mildenberger zeigt historische Entwicklungen, gesellschaftliche Diskurse und Problemfelder von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart auf, beschreibt sie überblicksartig und stellt weitere Literatur für eigene Studien bereit.Der Autor:Dr. Florian G. Mildenberger ist Professor am Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart und forscht vorrangig zu Geschichte, Entstehung und Bedeutung heilkundlicher, sozialer und sexueller Subkulturen im 19./20. Jahrhundert.Trade Review“... Eine besondere Stärke ist, dass Florian Mildenberger zeigt, wie sich politische und medizinische Großereignisse, wie die Unabhängigkeit der USA, der Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks, die Einführung von Antibiotika oder der Antibabypille auf die Auslebbarkeit von Sexualitäten auswirkte ...” (Wolfgang Burgdorf, in: H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, 12. Oktober 2020)“... Die Darstellungen des Bändchens sind überaus dicht und komprimiert angelegt, was der Intention, „[e]ine kurze Einführung“ zu gewährleisten ... und „Literaturhinweise zum Weiterlesen und Studieren“ (ebd.) zu bieten, dennoch mehr als gerecht wird ...” (Maximilian Römer, in: Sexuologie, Jg. 26, Heft 3-4, 2019)Table of ContentsSexualitäten im Wandel der Zeit – Antike, europäisches Mittelalter, von der Renaissance bis ins 19. Jahrhundert.- Sexualitäten zwischen Befreiung und Begrenzung (1850 bis 2000).- Sexualitäten in (Nord)Amerika, Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien.- Die neosexuelle Gegenwart.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Kinder von Scheidegg: Über die Bedeutung von
Book SynopsisWie gehen Menschen mit einer hoch ansteckenden Erkrankung um, die nur bedingt therapierbar ist? Bereits vor Corona gab es Krankheiten, die den Patienten, sein soziales Umfeld, die Gesellschaft und die Medizin forderten. Bis in die 60er Jahre waren auch zahlreiche Kinder von Tuberkulose betroffen. Dieses Buch bietet erstmals Einblick in den Alltag einer Tuberkulose-Kinderheilstätte, in die damaligen Therapie- und Versorgungsmöglichkeiten.In der Prinzregent-Luitpold-Kinderheilstätte in Scheidegg (Allgäu) lebten bis zu 300 Kinder, die u.a. an Lungen- und Knochen-Tuberkulose erkrankt waren. Die Therapie der Tuberkulose bedingte in der Regel mehrmonatige bis jahrelange und sich wiederholende Klinikaufenthalte. Die Berichte von Zeitzeugen zeigen u.a., wie die Kinder ihre Krankheit, die lange Trennung von der Familie erlebten und welche biografischen Einflüsse die Zeit in der Heilstätte hatte.Neben den Berichten der Zeitzeugen, bietet dieses Buch Informationen und umfangreiches Bildmaterial aus Archiven und Nachlässen, die die Entwicklung der Heilstätte, die Behandlungsmöglichkeiten der Tuberkulose und die Betreuung der Kinder im sozialen und historischen Kontext sachlich einzuschätzen helfen.Das Buch bietet wichtige Impulse für weitere wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen u.a. im Rahmen der Medizingeschichte, der Pädagogik, der Soziologie und in der Resilienzforschung.Table of Contents
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Vergissmeinnicht - Psychiatriepatienten und
Book SynopsisDer reich illustrierte Band schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Psychiatriealltag und Kunst: Bekannte und nie gezeigte Werke aus der Sammlung Prinzhorn des Universitätsklinikums Heidelberg führen eindrucksvoll vor, wie Psychiatriepatienten ihre Situation, ihren Arzt und das Leben in der Anstalt um 1900 wahrgenommen haben. Ergänzt werden diese beklemmend-faszinierenden Zeichnungen um Texte, Dokumente und Fotos, die Einblick geben in die biografischen Hintergründe der Patientinnen und Patienten und in überlieferte Diagnosen und Therapien an den Kliniken und Anstalten.Psychiatrie trifft Kunst, Medizingeschichte trifft Schicksale: Ein Buch zum Eintauchen für alle, die an der Geschichte der Psychiatrie aus der Perspektive von Insassen der "Irrenanstalten" interessiert sind - und zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Outsider Art.Trade Review“... Dieses Buch ist eine großartige Fundgrube für die Alltagsgeschichte der Psychiatrie und für regional- und institutionsgeschichtliche Studien.” (Thomas R. Müller, in: soziale psychiatrie, Jg. 43, Heft 2, 2019)“... Den Autorinnen gelingt es in außergewöhnlicher Weise, die unterschiedlichen Charaktere der psychisch kranken Künstlerinnen und Künstler mit den zum Teil nicht mehr vorstellbaren Zuständen in den psychiatrischen Anstalten zu vermitteln. Auf diese Weise wird die Kunst aus dem Elfenbeinturm herausgeholt und die Beschäftigung mit Psychiatriegeschichte zu einer erbaulichen Angelegenheit erhoben.” (Michael Konrad, in: Psychiatrische Praxis, Jg. 46, Heft 1-2, 2019)“… Das Buch leistet so unverzichtbare Hilfestellungen zum Verständnis dieser einzigartigen Zeugnisse. Es ist nicht nur jenen zu empfehlen, die an der Kunst von Psychiatrieerfahrenen interessiert sind und die Kreativität als Behandlungsmethode und Verstehenszugang nutzen, sondern auch all denjenigen, die Psychiatriegeschichte verstehen und aus ihr lernen wollen. Vielleicht wird der Band ja eine »Bilderbibel« für psychiatrisch Tätige und andere Kunstinteressierte …” (Wolfram Voigtländer, in: Psychosoziale Umschau, Jg. 33, Heft 2, 2018)Table of ContentsGeleitwort.- 1 Anstaltsansichten: “Irrenhausschuppen“ und „Narrenhäuser“.- 2. „Einweisung: Wer naht noch zu so später Stunde?“.- 3. Behandlungsmethoden: “Wer hat so etwas erlaubt?“.- 4. Zelle und Anstaltsgarten – Blick nach Innen und Außen: "Ihr untergebener Gefangener!“.- 5. Alltag in der Anstalt: „jren ißt etc. Menchlich“.- 6. „Ärzte, Pfleger, Mitpatienten und das Selbst im Porträt: Personenconfrontationen“.- 7. Arztrezeptionen zwischen Erlöser und Antichrist: „Warum macht ihr Gelerte=Schafsköpf einen Verrückten nicht gesund ihr Arschlöcher“.- 8. Krankheitserklärungen und Bewältigungsstrategien: „Herrn Dr. Printzhorn so sieht es in mir aus“.- 9.(Aufbegehren mit) Ironie, Karikatur, Spott: „z. Zt. Narrenschindenau b. Heidelberg Irrenklinik“.- 10. Bitten und Beschwerden: „Bitte! Bitte! Bitte!...“.- Anhang: iste der Anstalten und Privatpersonen, die Werke in die Heidelberger Bildersammlung gaben.- Liste historischer Diagnosen.- Personenverzeichnis
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NIAS Press Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical
Book SynopsisAt face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using 'medicine' (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia. Rich in ethnographic detail derived from both contemporary anthropological fieldwork and colonial archival material, the study is an account of the simultaneous presence in Cambodia of two medical traditions: the modern, biomedical one first introduced by the French colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology. In their reliance on one or the other of the two traditions, to a large extent the Khmer people have been concerned to find efficient medical treatment that also adheres to social norms (not least the emphasis on the morality of social relations). This concern is also evident in the prevailing medical pluralism in Cambodia today. The authors trace the interaction (and lack thereof) between these two traditions from the French colonial period via the political upheavals of the 1970s through to the present day. The result is more than a medical anthropology; this is a key text that also makes a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Cambodian society at large and will be an important resource for development planners and aid workers in medical and related fields.Trade Review'This is a compelling, persuasive study of the indigenizationA" of global bio-political knowledge in Cambodia from colonial to modern times. Rigorously researched, balanced in interpretation and cautionary rather than idealistic, scholars and policymakers alike will derive much benefit from this insightful assessment of the human condition in Cambodia today. It is benchmark, interdisciplinary social science for showing us how social order and everyday survival are continually shaped and reshaped by successive models of governance.' - Laura Summers, University of HullTable of ContentsPreface vii Glossary xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Colonialism and Medicine in Indochina 18 3. French Medicine in Cambodia 43 4. The Khmer Rouge Medical Regime and Socialist Health 84 5. Indigenous Practitioners: Healers, Spirit Mediums and Magic Monks 129 6. Midwives and the Medicalization of Motherhood 169 7. Leprosy: Symbol and Social Suffering 203 8. Contemporary Healthcare Resources 233 9. Conclusion 270 Appendix 275 References 277 Index 297
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Tulika Books Disease and Medicine in India – A Historical
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NUS Press Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisAn overlooked history of Southeast Asia’s varied healthcare regimes during the Cold War. For far too long, Southeast Asia has been treated as a static backdrop for the exploits and discoveries of Western biomedical doctors. Yet, Southeast Asians have been vital to the significant developments in the prevention and treatment of diseases that have taken place in the region and beyond. Many of the institutions and people that shaped subsequent responses to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics first began their work in Southeast Asia during the Cold War. The diversity of approaches to health and medicine during that era also reminds us of the possibilities, and limits, of human intervention in the face of political, social, economic, and microbial realities. The people and places of Southeast Asia have provided clinical trials for different health regimes. Fighting for Health highlights new perspectives and methods that have evolved from research presented at regional conferences, including the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) series. These insights serve to challenge dominant models of the medical humanities.Table of ContentsList of TablesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Health, Agriculture and Animism in the 'Development' of Portuguese Timor, 1945- 1975Chapter 2: Tool of Domination and Act of Benevolence: Medicine and Healthcare during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960Chapter 3: Health Sector Contestation in Cold War Laos, 1950-1975Chapter 4: More Eastern than Traditional: The Making of Ðông y in the Republic of Vietnam during the Cold WarChapter 5: Building a "socialist health system": Soviet assistance in malaria control in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Cold WarChapter 6: Mobilising Applied Medical Knowledge for Indonesia: Soekarnoist Science and Asian-African Solidarity, 1950sChapter 7: The Cholera Pandemic, Chinese Diaspora, and the Cold War Politics in Southeast Asia and China during the 1960sChapter 8: Managing Wartime Conditions: South Korean Developmental Ambitions, Public Health, and Emerging Forms of Overseas Medical Outreach, 1964-1973GlossaryBibliographyContributorsIndex
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NUS Press Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993
Book SynopsisThis book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British colonial period. It should be of interest to health professionals, medical students, historians interested in the development of medicine and psychiatry and even members of the public with some basic understanding of psychiatry and psychology. Relatives and caregivers of psychiatric patients would also find the information furnished in this book enlightening.Trade ReviewDr Ng has written an informative and detailed history of an issue of national importance. Psychiatry is a discipline continually facing stigma, and its history is often ignored on such a basis. Dr Ng's history, and his clear advocacy of the advances made in Singapore psychiatry, should inform both general and specialist readers."" — Prof. Gordon Parker, Research Director, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore (1998-2000)""History is the collection of written records curated for the next generation. Without a good understanding of how psychiatry developed in Singapore, we cannot bring the care of the mentally ill forward in any meaningful way. This book lays the foundation for the development of mental health services here and kudos goes to the intrepid author for his wonderful narrative of this dawn of Singapore psychiatry."" — Dr Daniel Fung, Chairman, Medical Board, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
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Oxford University Press Polio Wars
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country''s other war at home: they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community''s enforced orthodoxy in treating the disease, treatments that generally consisted of ineffective therapies. Polio Wars is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- Sister being a reference to her status as a senior nurse, not a religious designation -- who arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of polio. Kenny approached the disease as a non-neurological affliction, championing such novel therapies as hot packs and muscle exercises in place of splinting, surgery, and immobilization. Her care embodied a different style of clinical practice, one of optimistic, patient-centered treatments that gave hope to desperate patients and families. The Kenny methoTrade ReviewPolio Wars provides an excellent account of the politics of gender, philanthropy, and American medicine during the mid-twentieth century, and will benefit junior and more senior scholars alike. * Martin Moore, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part One ; 1 A Bush Nurse in America ; 2 The Battle Begins ; 3 Changing Clinical Care ; Part Two ; 4 Polio and Disability Politics ; 5 The Polio Wars ; 6 Celluloid ; Part Three ; 7 Kenny Goes to Washington ; 8 Fading Glory ; 9 I Knew Sister Kenny
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Oxford University Press Virus Hunt The search for the origin of HIVAIDs
Book SynopsisThe hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: a new disease ; 1. The puzzle of HIV-1 ; 2. Tracing HIV to its roots ; 3. The primate connection ; 4. From rain forest to research laboratory ; 5. Timing SIV cpz's jump to humans ; 6. A vital first step for HIV-1 group M ; 7. Beginning the epic journey ; 8. HIV-1 group M meets the challenge ; 9. Past, present, and future pandemics ; References ; Further reading ; Glossary
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Oxford University Press Coleridge and the Doctors
Book SynopsisWhat did Coleridge know about medicine and how did it influence the development of his critical thought? Neil Vickers sets out to answer this question in this radical reinterpretation of Coleridge''s career between 1795 and 1806. Coleridge and the Doctors changes the way we look at Coleridge''s intellectual development and reveals the richness of his involvement in the eighteenth-century tradition of ''philosophical medicine'' and its determining influence on his critical and philosophic stance. The book also contains a revisionary analysis of Coleridge''s dealings with opiates and offers a comprehensive account of British early Romantic medicine.Trade ReviewAltogether Vicker's book is an erudite, elegantly written and utterly compelling re-assessment of Coleridge's illnesses, an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of the poet and the period. * Michael John Kooy *Some books close down the subjects they explore: they spare others the trouble of revisiting the subject for the next half-century. But some, like this one, open avenues. Not only is a wealth of medical and contemporary interpretive detail gathered here into a coherent account, but the potential of the material is fully evident and capable of rich expansion. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"[The] refusal to simplify Colerdige's belief systems to package them prettily for students of literary criticism (for example) is one of the many strengths of this splendid book. I doubt that anyone could have compressed more matter into such a short book."--George Rousseau, Nunciusthis scrupulous study, will make a nuanced difference to future readings of Coleridge's poetry. * TLS *Anyone who reads Coleridge's letters must be struck by their graphic and elaborate diagnoses of the diverse ailments from which the poet suffered. Neil Vickers's innovation in Coleridge and the Doctors is to read such passages as medical texts in their own right, informed by Coleridge's intense engagement with philosophical medicine between 1800 and 1808. Vickers revisits Coleridge's accounts of volcanic activity in his bowels and of his attempt to manage his neuralgic pains by running around the house naked (p. 68) with a seriousness that Coleridge would appreciate: he diligently recovers the theoretical assumptions behind these and many other case histories, often reuniting the largely symptomatic accounts of the letters with contemporaneous, more philosophical passages from Coleridge's notebooks. * Noah Heringman, Studies in English Literature *Vickers's scrupulous reading of the medical theory ...illuminates the professional imperatives behind the increasingly scientific and philosophical tendencies of medicine and also establishes the role of Brunonian medicine in directing Coleridge's attention to German Idealism. Vickers's analysis successfully balances recent accounts of Coleridge as a "secret materialist" with an emphasis on the "mentalist" influence of Beddoes beginning in 1803. Beddoes, too, alerted Coleridge to the possibility that a patient's journal could function as both case history and therapy, an insight that dovetails nicely with Caldwell's account of medical narrative. * Noah Heringman, Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION
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