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Hospitals Through History

Therapeutic Drugs Through History

Socialism, Medicare and the Yoke of European Dictatorship

Anatomy Through History

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Marcia Brennan, with Illustrations by Lyn Smallwood

Intriguing parallels arise between contemporary end of life images and themes expressed historically in the writings of Thérèse of Lisieux, the Catholic saint who is known as the “Little Flower.”...

By Susan Detweiler, M.D., with Lillian Cartwright, Ph.D.

Female physicians were nearly invisible in the United States of the mid-1960s. The motivation and character of women who aspired to become physicians had never been the subject of serious...

Arthur J. Ammann, Shan-Estelle Brown, Paul Burnett, Elizabeth Alice Clement, Lynne Gerber, Polina Ilieva, Jay A. Levy, Paul Volberding

In the fall of 2019 the UCSF Archives & Special Collections, with the support of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, organized an interdisciplinary symposium Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS...

Marcia D. Nichols

Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary...

Edited by Richard M. Ratzan

Imagining Vesalius is a collection of ekphrastic works - poetry, prose, watercolors and sculpture - celebrating De Humani Corporis Fabrica, the 1543 landmark anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius. Using the...

Edited by John N. Forrest, Jr. and Lewis Landsberg

This book contains descriptions of 22 persons, professors of medicine, many of them trained by Beeson, who write about their recollections of Paul Beeson. The book follows Beeson’s life, from...

Albert Howard Carter, III

All of us live between peril and safety, danger and security, sickness and wellness, death and life. The threats range from a head cold to the Climate Change that endangers...

Josephine Ensign

A winner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing, Soul Stories is an exploration of the boundaries of narrative within health and healing...

Edited by Laura Ferguson and Katie Grogan. Foreword by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

On Tuesday evenings at NYU School of Medicine, art supplies are set out on tables and the anatomy lab is transformed into a studio, with a great spirit of creative...

Henry R. Bourne and Eric B. Vermillion

Threatened by sharp cuts in state government support and stagnant federal research funding, US public research universities are becoming fragile ecosystems. By charting flows of research dollars through a leading...

Edited by Brian Dolan

Limited time offer: Download Epub for free! This reader reprints critical essays published over the course of a 100-year history that grapple with the challenges of defining and justifying the...

Edited by Jo Marie Reilly, Helena Yu, Allan S. Lichtman, Rosemary R. Lichtman

Each fall, first year medical students recite the traditional Hippocratic Oath, a promise of their commitment to the field of medicine. This ritual serves to highlight their acceptance of the...

Edited by Sharon Dobie, MD

Do your doctors share what they have learned from you? Likely not! With little precedent for physicians to open up about the impact their patients have on their personal development,...

Silvia Camporesi

What is it to talk about gene transfer, gene therapy, and gene doping? Is choosing deafness with preimplantation genetic diagnosis an ethical way to carry on a cultural bloodline? What...

Edited by Joan Baranow, PhD and David Watts, MD

For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassionate understanding between healthcare providers and those who seek a state of well-being beyond the...

Mahala Yates Stripling

Many of the bioethical and medical issues challenging society today have been anticipated and addressed in literature ranging from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albert Camus’s The Plague, to Margaret Edson's Wit....

Cynthia D. Perlis, Editor, with Foreword by Brian Dolan, PhD

The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive presents true dialogues about living and dying, hopes and dreams, grief and loss. These stories show human beings connecting...

By Edison Miyawaki

What to Read on Love, not Sex examines Sigmund Freud’s career-long reliance on tragedy, myth, scripture, and art to articulate a psychology of love. The author, a neurologist and psychiatrist...

Eds. Paul Blanc, MD, and Brian Dolan, PhD

Collection of keynote addresses and abstracts of papers presented at the international conference in San Francisco, CA, in 2010. Accompanying PowerPoint images for Robert Proctor's keynote.

By Dorothy Porter, PhD

Delves into the tangled strands of social forces that have linked theory and practice in social medicine and examines their impact on changing the principles and directions of public health....

By Carol Z. Clark and Orlo H. Clark, MD

Looks at the intersections between medicine and art throughout history, examining paintings that demonstrate the artist's skill of observation manifest in accurate representations of endocrine disease. This book is out...

By Henry R. Bourne

In less than a decade, scientists located within 200 yards of one another identified the first cancer genes, discovered that a protein by itself can transmit an infectious disease, learned...

By Albert Howard Carter III, PhD

Presents and analyzes humor on medical topics inside and outside the hospital. Carter argues that comedy can be a form of preventive medicine and should routinely be an adjunct to...

Eds. Joan Baranow, PhD, Brian Dolan, PhD, and David Watts, MD

This volume brings together the voices of caregivers and patients who share a passion for writing about the mysterious forces of illness and recovery. A belief shared among all contributors...

Edited by Nancy J. Burke, PhD

This collection of essays challenges static and binary discourses regarding the Cuban healthcare system, bringing together papers that paint a nuanced and dynamic picture of the intricacies of Cuban health(care)...

By Stewart Justman

How is it that people in search of healing were at one time able to experience the therapeutic effects of “animal magnetism”? The evidence suggests that those who went in...

Eds. Martha A. Zeiger, MD, Wen T. Shen, MD, MA, Erin A. Felger, MD

Endocrine surgery – the subspecialty of general surgery involving diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands as well as the endocrine pancreas – is a rapidly growing field of...

By. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt...