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986 entries match Professions & Education [M01 / N02]
2016
#8997
Nurse writers of the great war.
2016
#9895
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
2016
#10421
Vanishing America: Species extinction racial peril, and the origins of conservation.
"Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U…
2016
#10538
Ärztliches Leben und Denken im arabischen Mittelalter. Von Johann Christoph Bürgel. Bearbeitet von Fabian Käs.
"...Investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspec…
2016
#10667
Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.
2016
#12727
Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.
"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…
2017
#9549
Pierre Fauchard Academy: Historical Articles
This international honorary dental organization provides useful historical articles concerning the history of dentistry at https://www.fauchard.org/history/articles.
2017
#9553
American Academy of the History of Dentistry: Resources and Links
http://www.histden.org/drupal/content/resources_links "The Historical Museum of Medicine & Dentistry Collection Photographs collected and analyzed by the Hartford Medical Society & Hartford Dental Society. Prepared fo…
2017
#9907
Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
2017
#9908
Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.
"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…
2017
#9973
Teeth: The story of beauty, inequality, and the struggle for oral health in America.
2017
#10272
Beating the odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a history, 1962–2012.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA was founded as recently as 1962.
2017
#10555
Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.
2017
#10627
Avicenne et la médecine en Italie. Le Canon dans les universités (1200-1350).
![AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)](/media/portraits/9572)
2017
#10661
Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.
2017
#10966
Medicine at Michigan: A history of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial.
2017
#12372
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
2017
#12847
The Etruscans and the history of dentistry: The golden smile through the ages.
2017
#12851
The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.
2017
#13672
Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890.
2018
#10121
Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.
Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It p…
2018
#11051
Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.
2018
#11382
Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.
"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…
2018
#12103
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
2018
#12566
Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.
The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.
2018
#12668
‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.
2018
#14099
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at le…
2019
#11073
The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.
A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."
2019
#13741
Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.
Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link.
2019
#14014
Machine learning identification of surgical and operative factors associated with surgical expertise in virtual reality simulation.
"Abstract "Importance Despite advances in the assessment of technical skills in surgery, a clear understanding of the composites of technical expertise is lacking. Surgical simulation allows for the quantitation of ps…
2020
#13039
Clean: The new science of skin.
"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…
2020
#13670
Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.
2020
#14098
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.
Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…
2021
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
2022
#14059
Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.
2022
#14106
Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models.
Abstract: "We evaluated the performance of a large language model called ChatGPT on the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which consists of three exams: Step 1, Step 2CK, and Step 3. ChatGPT performed at o…