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986 entries match Professions & Education [M01 / N02]
2010
#10342
Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…
2010
#10973
Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.
"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…
2010
#13650
Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.
Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.
2011
#8615
Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.
2011
#9708
Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.
2011
#10022
Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia.
2011
#12547
The healing landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia. Edited by David G. Anderson
"This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape type…
2011
#13319
The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.
2012
#8093
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2012
#8799
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
2012
#10345
Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.
2012
#10932
Leading the way: A history of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
2012
#12131
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.
"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …
2012
#13925
The educated eye: Visual culture and pedagogy in the life sciences. Edited by Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich.
2012
#13926
Learning with the lights off: Educational film in the United States. Edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, Dan Streible.
2012
#14013
A physics-based virtual simulator for cranial microneurosurgery training.
"Abstract "BACKGROUND: "A virtual reality neurosurgery simulator with haptic feedback may help in the training and assessment of technical skills requiring the use of tactile and visual cues. "OBJECTIVE: "To develop a…
2013
#8001
Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.
History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.
2013
#8185
The inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.
2013
#9930
Routledge handbook on the global history of nursing. Edited by Patricia D'Antonio, Julie A. Fairman and Jean C. Whelan.
2013
#10062
Transforming the culture of dying: The work of the Project on Death in America.
"Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States. The project concerned itself with adults and c…
2013
#10541
Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…
2013
#12927
History of orthodontics.
This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc.
2013
#13284
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures
The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …
2013
#13740
The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.
Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.
2014
#7858
The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.
2014
#8038
Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
2014
#10043
Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.
"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 19…
2014
#10087
Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.
" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…
2014
#12722
Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.
"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…
2014
#13210
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 5, Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche.
2014
#13738
Cancer concepts: A guidebook for the non-oncologist.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/8/ The first interactive Open access (OA) electronic textbook on any medical subject. This eBook was designed for first year medical students. Order of authorship on t…
2015
#7209
Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions, with beautiful color illustrations, of some of the greatest classics in the history of dentistry in the library of the Svenska Tandläkare-Sällskapet (Swedish Dental Society).
2015
#7855
Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.
The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…
2015
#8056
Histoire et épistémologie de l'anatomie et de la physiologie en art dentaire: De l'antiquité à la fin du XXe siècle.
2015
#8770
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.
2015
#8790
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
2015
#9968
Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.
This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail.
2015
#10034
Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.
Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017).
2015
#10116
The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.
"From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general pra…
2015
#10119
An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.
1077 pages.
2015
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
2015
#10341
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
2015
#11068
Chirurgie dentaire et nazisme.
2015
#12548
Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.
"The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the e…
2015
#14356
Maternal mortality: Risk factors, anthropological perspectives, prevalence in developing countries and preventive strategies for pregnancy-related deaths. Edited by David A. Schwartz.
"Pregnancy is a life-threatening event in many parts of the developing world. Globally, it is estimated that 289,000 women died from being pregnant in 2013. The lifetime risk for dying as a result of pregnancy is as h…
2016
#8015
Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps.
2016
#8539
History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.
2016
#8550
Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.
2016
#8826
A history of anthropological theory. 5th edition.
2016
#8847
Simulation in healthcare education: An extensive history.
The first history of this topic on the history of mannikins and the unusually wide variety of devices, including interactive software, used in the training of the different specialties in medicine and nursing.