Healing Histories is the first detailed collection of Indigenous perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's Indigenous communities and...

This book offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1...

Between 1347 and 1352 an unknown and deadly disease, only much later known as the Black Death, swept across Europe, leaving an estimated 30-50 % of...

While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the qu...

While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the qu...

The great Paracelsian scholar Walter Pagel and the pioneer medical historian Kurt Polycarp Sprengel identified Petrus Severinus' Idea medicinæ (157...

This book is both a lively introduction and a guidebook to those pioneers, most of them surgeons, who attempted to help their patients by extending...

This book offer a broad and comprehensive survey of the state of public health, medical practice and its practitioners in 1800-1925. Based on first...

In 1644, the University of Copenhagen established its first anatomical theatre. In addition to the instruction of students, research was also carri...

Contents: Introduction , Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentione...

This English language edition is far more than a simple translation of the work "L'Histoire des vaccinations" published in 2008. The French edition...

Focusing on the field of health care and disease control as a field of policy that was of pivotal importance for the existence and stability of Eur...