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| famous medical doctors in history: Doctors Sherwin B. Nuland, 2011-10-19 From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original blue baby operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The History of Radiology Adrian M. K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee, 2013-05-09 In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born photographer, William N Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Röntgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of their findings were overlooked, and the formal discovery of X-rays was credited to Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. The discovery has since transformed the practice of medicine, and over the course of the past 130 years, the development of new radiological techniques has continued to grow. The impact has been seen in virtually every hospital in the world, from the routine use of ultrasound for pregnancy scans, through to the diagnosis of complex medical issues such as brain tumours. More subtly, X-rays were also used in the discovery of DNA and in military combat, and their social influence through popular culture can be seen in cartoons, books, movies and art. Written by two radiologists who have a passion for the history of their field, The History of Radiology is a beautifully illustrated review of the remarkable developments within radiology and the scientists and pioneers who were involved. This engaging and authoritative history will appeal to a wide audience including medical students studying for the Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries (DHMSA), doctors, medical physicists, medical historians and radiographers. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Principles and Practice of Medicine Sir William Osler, 1892 Copy 2, Gift of Mrs. E. Carwile LeRoy, 2009. |
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| famous medical doctors in history: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Janice P. Nimura, 2021-01-19 New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor. —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Doctors Sherwin B. Nuland, 2008 The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers . |
| famous medical doctors in history: From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism Steven Palmer, 2003-01-06 From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era—when none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had access to a titled physician, pharmacist, or midwife—to the 1940s, when the figure of the qualified medical doctor was part of everyday life for many of Costa Rica’s nearly one million citizens. It is the first book to chronicle the history of all healers, both professional and popular, in a Latin American country during the national period. Steven Palmer breaks with the view of popular and professional medicine as polar opposites—where popular medicine is seen as representative of the authentic local community and as synonymous with oral tradition and religious and magical beliefs and professional medicine as advancing neocolonial interests through the work of secular, trained academicians. Arguing that there was significant and formative overlap between these two forms of medicine, Palmer shows that the relationship between practitioners of each was marked by coexistence, complementarity, and dialogue as often as it was by rivalry. Palmer explains that while the professionalization of medical practice was intricately connected to the nation-building process, the Costa Rican state never consistently displayed an interest in suppressing the practice of popular medicine. In fact, it persistently found both tacit and explicit ways to allow untitled healers to practice. Using empirical and archival research to bring people (such as the famous healer or curandero Professor Carlos Carbell), events, and institutions (including the Rockefeller Foundation) to life, From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism demonstrates that it was through everyday acts of negotiation among agents of the state, medical professionals, and popular practitioners that the contours of Costa Rica’s modern, heterogeneous health care system were established. |
| famous medical doctors in history: A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities J. C. McKeown, 2017 A light-hearted portrait of the origins of modern medicine in the ancient world |
| famous medical doctors in history: Dr James Barry Michael Du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield, 2017 A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. Long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century. In an extraordinary life, she crossed paths with the British Empire's great and good, royalty and rebels, soldiers and slaves. A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy, but for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Breakthrough! Jon Queijo, 2010-02-25 Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In Breakthrough! How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind history’s most amazing medical discoveries. This isn’t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the world–and, quite likely, saved your life. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Elizabeth Blackwell Joanne Landers Henry, 1996-04 The life of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in England and America to open the field of medicine to women. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. (1821-1910) Nancy Ann Sahli, 1974 |
| famous medical doctors in history: A Book of Medical Discourses: in Two Parts Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 2023-12-18 Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Good Doctors John Dittmer, 2017-01-31 In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, the March on Selma, and the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized and sometimes radicalized by their firsthand view of disenfranchised communities, the MCHR soon expanded its mission to encompass a range of causes from poverty to the war in Vietnam. They later took on the whole of the United States healthcare system. MCHR doctors soon realized fighting segregation would mean not just caring for white volunteers, but also exposing and correcting shocking inequalities in segregated health care. They pioneered community health plans and brought medical care to underserved or unserved areas. Though education was the most famous battleground for integration, the appalling injustice of segregated health care levelled equally devastating consequences. Award-winning historian John Dittmer, author of the classic civil rights history Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, has written an insightful and moving account of a group of idealists who put their careers in the service of the motto “Health Care Is a Human Right.” |
| famous medical doctors in history: You Bet Your Life Paul A. Offit, 2024-05-14 From one of America's top physicians, a riveting, fascinating, and timely (Nature) history of risk in medicine Every medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery--is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them. Told in Offit's vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. As we have learned from the COVID pandemic--the debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines--it's all too easy to get everything wrong. Updated with a new introduction, You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, 2012-11-20 In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Genius on the Edge Gerald Imber, 2010-02-02 Genius on the Edge introduces the public to the man who revolutionized modern surgery at the same time it weaves a compelling biography with a fascinating tour of American medicine at the turn of the 19th century. Coming of age in the wake of the Civil War, William Stewart Halsted became a doctor in an era when surgery was a dangerous game of chance. By the time of his death in 1922, Halsted had transformed surgery and had pioneered techniques and procedures that are routine in today's operating rooms. But this came at a high price-drug addiction and alienation from his friends and family. His enormous professional accomplishments, eccentric personal behavior, and lifetime of drug addiction defy conventional wisdom. In the first comprehensive portrait of this complex and indisputably brilliant man, author Gerald Imber-a renowned plastic surgeon himself-takes readers to the upper echelons of society in New York City and Baltimore, blending tales of Gilded Age decadence with captivating accounts from the front lines of medical discovery. Combining the historical atmosphere of The Alienist with an unconventional hero, Genius on the Edge celebrates one of history's most daring doctors. Book jacket. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Baby and Child Care Benjamin Spock, Michael B. Rothenberg, 1985 Baby and child care helped raise and entire generation of Americans. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Doctors and Discoveries John Simmons, 2002 Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Spock on Spock Benjamin Spock, Mary Morgan, 1989 Spock describes events that span two world wars, two marriages, two sons and one stepdaughter, and all the trappings of a celebrity. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Poisoner in Chief Stephen Kinzer, 2019-09-10 The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace—including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world. Stephen Kinzer, author of groundbreaking books about U.S. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. Gottlieb’s reckless experiments on “expendable” human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. He lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, and rose before dawn to milk his goats. During his twenty-two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest secrecy. Only since his death has it become possible to piece together his astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action. Poisoner in Chief reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-lore, Etc William Andrews, 1896 |
| famous medical doctors in history: Man's 4th Best Hospital Samuel Shem, 2019 The sequel to the highly acclaimed The House of God. Years later, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a new generation of interns and residents. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Encyclopedia of Diet Fads Marjolijn Bijlefeld, Sharon K. Zoumbaris, 2003 Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe various weight loss means and methods, including specific diets, support groups or services, and people who have influenced the way Americans eat, and includes an introductory essay that traces the history of weight-loss plans. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Medicine in the Middle Ages Ian Dawson, 2005 Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago. |
| famous medical doctors in history: A Treatise on the Small-pox and Measles Rhazes, 1848 |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot, 2010-02-02 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
| famous medical doctors in history: 200 Years of American Medicine (1776-1976) ... National Library of Medicine (U.S.), 1976 |
| famous medical doctors in history: Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black & Minority Health United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Black and Minority Health, 1985 |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Butchering Art Lindsey Fitzharris, 2017-10-17 Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian Warning: She spares no detail! —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no place for the squeamish—and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients’ afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn’t have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history. Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Lister’s career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Lister’s contemporaries—some of them brilliant, some outright criminal—and leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers. Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Life of Ibn Sina Avicenna, Ab? ?Al? al-?usayn b. ?Abd All?h Ibn S?n?, ?Abd al-W??id J?zj?n?, 1974-01-01 |
| famous medical doctors in history: Inside Our Broken Healthcare System Linda Girgis, 2015-01-19 The US healthcare system is failing. Patients are being denied the care they need and are often unable to afford it. Healthcare workers on the frontlines are battling this system everyday to get patients the medical care they deserve. But, the fight is getting harder and harder. This book explores the things that are in need of repair in our healthcare system. Something must give before a true crisis ensues. |
| famous medical doctors in history: A Practical Treatise on Impotence, Sterility and Allied Disorders of the Male Sexual Organs Samuel Weissell Gross, 1887 |
| famous medical doctors in history: On the Sacred Disease Hippocrates, It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause from the originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it, and the simplicity of the mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. But if it is reckoned divine because it is wonderful, instead of one there are many diseases which would be sacred; for, as I will show, there are others no less wonderful and prodigious, which nobody imagines to be sacred. The quotidian, tertian, and quartan fevers, seem to me no less sacred and divine in their origin than this disease, although they are not reckoned so wonderful. And I see men become mad and demented from no manifest cause, and at the same time doing many things out of place; and I have known many persons in sleep groaning and crying out, some in a state of suffocation, some jumping up and fleeing out of doors, and deprived of their reason until they awaken, and afterward becoming well and rational as before, although they be pale and weak; and this will happen not once but frequently. And there are many and various things of the like kind, which it would be tedious to state particularly. They who first referred this malady to the gods appear to me to have been just such persons as the conjurors, purificators, mountebanks, and charlatans now are, who give themselves out for being excessively religious, and as knowing more than other people. Such persons, then, using the divinity as a pretext and screen of their own inability to of their own inability to afford any assistance, have given out that the disease is sacred, adding suitable reasons for this opinion, they have instituted a mode of treatment which is safe for themselves, namely, by applying purifications and incantations, and enforcing abstinence from baths and many articles of food which are unwholesome to men in diseases. Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against. And of fleshes, those of the goat, the stag, the sow, and the dog: for these are the kinds of flesh which are aptest to disorder the bowels. Of fowls, the cock, the turtle, and the bustard, and such others as are reckoned to be particularly strong. And of potherbs, mint, garlic, and onions; for what is acrid does not agree with a weak person. And they forbid to have a black robe, because black is expressive of death; and to sleep on a goat’s skin, or to wear it, and to put one foot upon another, or one hand upon another; for all these things are held to be hindrances to the cure. All these they enjoin with reference to its divinity, as if possessed of more knowledge, and announcing beforehand other causes so that if the person should recover, theirs would be the honor and credit; and if he should die, they would have a certain defense, as if the gods, and not they, were to blame, seeing they had administered nothing either to eat or drink as medicines, nor had overheated him with baths, so as to prove the cause of what had happened. But I am of opinion that (if this were true) none of the Libyans, who live in the interior, would be free from this disease, since they all sleep on goats’ skins, and live upon goats’ flesh; neither have they couch, robe, nor shoe that is not made of goat’s skin, for they have no other herds but goats and oxen. But if these things, when administered in food, aggravate the disease, and if it be cured by abstinence from them, godhead is not the cause at all; nor will purifications be of any avail, but it is the food which is beneficial and prejudicial, and the influence of the divinity vanishes. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The Medical Book Clifford A. Pickover, 2012-09-04 A lively, accessible, and fully illustrated guide to the history of medicine, from ancient practices to cutting edge innovations. Clifford Pickover continues his popular series that includes The Physics Book and The Math Book with this volume chronicling the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones—the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project—with unexpected and intriguing topics like “truth serum,” the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women Elizabeth Blackwell, 1895 Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr. |
| famous medical doctors in history: The War on Doctors Linda M. Girgis, M.d., 2015-08-05 Doctors are being bombarded by wars on many fronts. The ability to practice medicine is being taken over by 3rd parties: insurance companies and the government. The way we learned to practice medicine is going extinct and this will harm the patients as well as the profession. The war on doctors is a war on patients as well, and they stand to suffer the most. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Chromosome 6 Robin Cook, 1998-04-01 “Master of the medical thriller.”—The New York Times In his most prophetic thriller yet, Robin Cook goes behind the headlines on cloning and genetic manipulation, blending fact with fiction in this terrifying bestseller. In the jungles of equatorial Africa, a biotechnology giant has taken transplant surgery and animal research to a new level—where one mistake could bridge the evolutionary gap between man and ape and forever change the genetic map of our existence. Meanwhile, in New York City, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are working on a seemingly unrelated murder of a mobster, only to find some very odd things once their victim is on the autopsy table... |
| famous medical doctors in history: Mash Richard Hooker, 2009-03-17 Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees. For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide—all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart. |
| famous medical doctors in history: Every Minute Is a Day Robert Meyer, MD, Dan Koeppel, 2021-08-03 An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved. |
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The Patient's View: Doing Medical History from below
In this article I shall suggest why this has been so, argue that it is undesirable that it should continue so, and suggest some methods and approaches toward developing an alternative history of …
THE HISTORY OF BLOODLETTING - Royal College of Physicians of …
ABSTRACT Bloodletting was a practice favoured by doctors and barber-surgeons for many centuries, and is now, perhaps surprisingly, still employed for a few specific indications.
Famous medical doctors of Sombor in its history until
On February 17, university of novi sad, novi sad, serbia 1749, Sombor became a free royal town. Dr. Petar Miloradović arrived in 1770 as the first doctor. In 1778, the town got its correspondence...
1880s - Present: Values-based teamwork focused on the patient
h and well-being by providing the best care to every patient. Mayo Clinic pioneered the integrated, multispecialty group practice of medicine – specialists who work together, uniting diverse skills …
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Famous Medical Doctors In History : Taylor Jenkins Reids "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" This captivating historical fiction novel unravels the life of Evelyn Hugo, a Hollywood icon who …
doctors. However, the choices that individual medical practitioners …
medical market in large urban concentrations of population where recruiting numerous private patients meant that a good standard of living could be achieved, as for example was also the …
Trust Me, I’m a Tudor Doctor
• Continue to develop chronologically secure knowledge of history. • Note connections, contrasts and trends over time. • Regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. • Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of
India’s Contribution to Medicine - Archive.org
– the story that needs to be told, especially to medical students. Most medical schools in the world, including the ones in India, try to teach the history of medicine in its chronological order of development. They often start with Greek medical men like …
CHRONICLES OF MEDICAL HISTORY IN AFRICA GREAT …
of the greatness of her Ivory towers.Chronicles of medical history in Africa takes a look at the institutions where ... education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to ... students are Ibn Abi Usaybi ˇah (1 203-1270), the famous medical historian, and ˘Ala ad-Din Ibn al-Nafis (d ...
Writing Women into Medical History in the 1930s: Kate Campbell …
Writing Women into Medical History in the 1930s: Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead and “Medical Women” of the Past and Present toby a. ... for women doctors before the nineteenth century.’ He admits that some women may have been trained in midwifery after a certain manner, but he assures us the famous medical women of Salerno had no real existence,
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Famous Medical Doctors In History: Doctors who Followed Christ Dan Graves, Examines the lives and accomplishments of thirty two physicians from throughout history whose Christian faith has influenced their work Medicine and Healers Through History Kara Rogers Senior Editor, Biomedical Sciences,2011-01-15 A chronology of famous doctors and other ...
A woman’s place - The Lancet
Women doctors in Mexico continued to experience verbal and even physical attacks for many years, while Mexico’s conservative medical societies remained closed to them in Montoya’s lifetime. In 1925, she cofounded, with physician Aurora Uribe, the Association of Mexican Women Doctors, and she represented Mexico at the Second Panamerican
THE CAUSES OF THE SCOTTISH MEDICAL RENAISSANCE OF THE …
famous medical practitioners who were either born or educated in eigh-teenth century Scotland suggests the importance of Scottish medicine. ... History of Medicine (New York: Ronald Press, 1955), refer to the fame of Edinburgh as a medical center. 3 Dictionary of National Biography. London, 1885-1901, passim.
Historical evidence for the origin of teaching hospital, medical …
medical school and the director of the hospital.7,12 Because of medical-philosophical dispute among physician-philosophers, in 610 AD, Khosrow II (590 to 628 AD) convened a medical
History of Medicine and Concepts of Health Klaus Bergdolt
and Carus, both famous medical doctors, and Goethe, their famous patient, subscribed to this view (15,16). Hufeland described health as the most substantial element of this ideal state called dietetics, which is comparable with a work of art (17). We …
Cuban Medical Education: Aiming for the Six-Star Doctor
1960s, Cuban medical graduates also pledge their commitment to practice in the public health system, providing their services free to all who require them.[1] Cuban Medical Education: Aiming for the Six-Star Doctor Highlights in the History of Cuban Medical Education 1726 Medicine first taught in Cuba by the Dominican Order.
Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J. - SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
10 A complaint of medical negligence was instituted before the Medical Council of India. 11 The Ethics Committee of the Medical Council of India came to the conclusion on 20 February 2015 that though the treating doctors had administered treatment to the patient in accordance with the established medical guidelines, the treatment was not timely.
Medieval civilisation - Kettering Science Academy
Medieval doctors Medieval doctors retained some medical knowledge from the Greek and Roman eras, despite the fact that much was lost during the Dark Ages. Unfortunately these doctors accepted the ideas of the ancients without question, and held many superstitious beliefs. This meant that patients often got worse, rather than better, under their ...
The Historical Perspective Of Medical Science In Ancient India
Perhaps these twins divine were the first two physicians in human history whose achievements are well documented. During the Rig Vedic period there was wide use of herbs. The first statement on plants as medicine, in the medical history, is in Rigved in which plants have been classified in three categories viz. trees
Medical Humanities in Theory and Practice - Cambridge …
medical humanities, the philosophy of medicine is less allocated than medical ethics, the history of medicine, literature and medicine, and other areas in medical humanities. Nevertheless, sometimes applying philosophical principles to particular cases might be critical for improving medical practices.
Traditional Chinese Medicine - Cambridge University Press
texts, diagnostic methods, the use of medical herbs and techniques such as acupuncture. Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-18672-8 — Traditional Chinese Medicine Yuqun Liao Frontmatter ... Stories about Famous Doctors in History 93 Bian Que 94 Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo 95 Wang Shuhe and Huang Fumi 98 Sun Simiao 99
Comprehensive Adult New Patient Health History Questionnaire
Health History . Questionnaire . Your answers on this form will help your health care provider get an accurate history of your medical concerns and conditions. If you are a current patient there is a shorter update form you ca n use. Please fill in all . six . pages. It is long because it is comprehensive. We
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M.d.,2014-01-05 From Hippocrates to William Osler biographies of famous physicians that changed the direction of medicine throughout history Medicine and Healers Through History Kara Rogers Senior Editor, Biomedical Sciences,2011-01-15 A chronology of famous doctors and other medical professionals throughout history profiles their lasting
GUIDE TO HISTORY TAKING AND EXAMINATION - UCL
The Medical History ‘The medical history’ is a structured assessment conducted to generate a comprehensive picture of a patient’s health and health problems. It includes an assessment of ñ the patient’s current and previous health problems current and previous medical treatment the patient’s health in general
A History of Social Work in Public Health - American Journal of …
Hospitals, and the doctors who controlled them, were initially unconvinced of the need for social services. Hospital social work pioneer Ida Cannon and visionary physician Richard Cabot faced signifi cant resis-tance from doctors and nurses in their fi rst eff orts at Mas-sachusetts General Hospital. However, once the positive
America's First Medical Malpractice Crisis, 1835–1865 - Springer
(1788).15 In the U.S., the first notable work was Theodori c Romeyn Beck' s Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1823).16 Additiona l popular references in- cluded Joseph Chitty's A Practical Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence (1834),17 Alfred Swaine Taylor's Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1836),18 Isaac Ray's A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity …
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINE IN THE ERA OF TIMURIDS - EPRA …
It is known from history that Amir Temur also carried doctors among his armies in order to help those who were wounded in the battle and patients. Mevlana Fayzullah Tabrizi was his personal physician. After Amir Temur took over Damascus, Mevlana encouraged the most famous healers of his time, such as Jamaliddin and Mevlana Suleiman, to
Eugenics for the Doctors: Medicine and
doctors were within the eugenics community did not mean that all doctors were eugenicists, either in Turkey or in the rest of the world. For instance, in Britain, the lower ranks of the medical community opposed the implied motto of eugenics, "better dead [than alive]," as a curse on their profession.8 Again, in Switzerland, only the upper
Analysis on the Medication Rule of Famous Old TCM Doctors in …
Famous doctors with superb medical skills; ② The treatment target is clearly diagnosed as cervical spondylosis or Xiangbi; ③ The medical records with complete medical records, complete ...
BOOK II * THE HISTORY OF GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE AND …
THE HISTORY OF GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE AND LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA . INTRODUCTION TO BOOK II Book II reviews the history of general medical practice in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania as well as the L ancaster General Hospital, its internship and
Should doctors leave the history of medicine to historians?
here, I thought, lay the trap of doctors history. It is a tradition to introduce medical lectures and essays with a nod to history in a how did we get from there to here ó summary of events, usually uncritically taken from previous writers accounts. That was the sort of thing I had heard historians decry. There is an analogy to illustrate the ...
The Biography of Li Shizhen - Education Bureau
famous doctor in town. 5. When he was 38, Shizhen cured the son of the Prince of the hu State. He was then invited to work as a medical official in the royal court. Later, he was recommended to the Imperial Medical Institute in eijing as an assistant president. While working in the government, he read many rare medical books.
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Technical Requirements to Design a Personal Medical History ...
nal medical history visualization should have the following characteristics: a) visualization of individual health data,b) visualization of the entire health history of a person, c) doctor ...
FROM BARBER-SURGEON TO MODERN DOCTOR
The fact of medical "dynasties" - famous doctors have famous sons - is so well known that it would be carrying owls to Athens to try to give a comprehensive list of them. I will name here only a very few examples, usually where the son succeeded the father, grandfather, or uncle in a med-
Yoruba Indigenous Medical Knowledge: A Study of the Nature
Yoruba Indigenous Medical Knowledge: A Study of the Nature, Dynamisms, and Resilience of Yoruba Medicine ... 1 Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The Yoruba are one of the most prominent, urbanized, and cultured peoples on the African continent (Udo 1980: 17). They number more than 30 million people in West
The Aberdeen Hospital New Glasgow, N.S. A History 1895 -1988
Chairmen of Board/Presidents of Medical Staff since 1939. Senior Staff since 1897. Donations 1941 -1980 East Side Fund Plaque - Donors. Medical Staff List 1988. Accreditation Record since 1923. Aberdeen Hospital Commission 1988. Departmental List 1988. Proposed Aberdeen Hospital 1895. By-Laws and Rules of the Aberdeen Hospital 1897. Report of ...
Famous medical doctors of Sombor in its history until the world …
Famous medical doctors of Sombor in its history until the world war ii aleksandar Kobilarov, Vladimir Sakač SuMMary Sombor is a town in the northwest of Bačka, an area rich in culture. It was founded as a settlement in the 5 th and the 6 cen-turies. There are many theories about the origins and name of the town.
Top 50 most influential people on Stem Cells today - California
development program in Amgen [s history, Phase 3 osteoporosis/bone cancer drug denosumab. Prior to joining Amgen, Mr. Murphy played a central role at Alkermes, Inc. on the development team for their first approved product, Nutropin (hGH) Depot. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MILESTONES IN PA HISTORY - AAPA
accepts four former Navy medical corpsmen (Kenneth F. Ferrell, Victor Hugo Germino, Jr., Richard John ScheeleDonald Guffey). 1966 Barefoot doctors emerge in China in response to Chairman Mao’s purge of the elite and intellectual, which sent many physicians into the fields to work and left peasants without medical personnel.
Dietetic practice: the past, present and future - World Health …
716 La Revue de Santé de la Méditerranée orientale, Vol. 10, No 6, 2004 Invited paper Dietetic practice: the past, present and future N. Hwalla 1 and M. Koleilat 2 1Professor, 2Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. SUMMARY The history of dietetics can be traced as far back as the writings of Homer, Plato and Hippocrates
Ho Chi Minh's Ideology On Revolutionary Medical Ethics
medical ethics of famous Vietnamese doctors as well as the views on medical ethics being studied in the world in order to see new points, typical of Ho Chi Minh's medical ethics. At the same time, through a general survey of the current situation of medical ethics for Vietnamese doctors, it is necessary to educate them on medical ethics ...
MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS AND COMMON SYMBOLS - MFHS
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TRADITIONAL YORUBA MEDICINE IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE …
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra şov • Vol. 6 (51) - 2009 Series 6: Medical Sciences Supplement – Proceeding of The IV th Balkan Congress of History of Medicine TRADITIONAL YORUBA MEDICINE IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH O. AWOJOODU 1 D. BARAN 2 Abstract: From the earliest beginnings of medicine, mankind has associated the act of curing …
Medical Sociology: A Personal Fifty Year Perspective - JSTOR
The contributions to medical sociology of sociologist Selden D. Bacon and physician and medical educator William R. Willard are described. The relationship of medical sociology to medical behav-ioral science, as experienced at the University of Kentucky, is discussed. Finally, the thesis of the author's 1957 paper on the nature and status of ...
Sentara Healthcare Historic Timeline
uniforms and medical technology to hospital facilities and surgical procedures—one thing has remained unchanged. Sentara is still committed to that original mission: to provide citizens with the best medical care possible. We pause here to reflect on how far we’ve come, examine what it took to get here and imagine what the future might hold.
9: Achievements and Contributions of al-Andalus: Exploration …
in hospitals and medical colleges. A famous Andalusian physician was Hasdai Ibn Shaprut (915-970 CE), a Jewish physician who ... a history of medicine from the Greeks to his time. Abul Qasim al-Zahrawi (Córdoba, d. 1013 CE) is best known as a surgeon, and served al- ... Andalusian doctors made contributions to medical ethics and hygiene. The ...
Corpsman Up! - NHHC
medical personnel. According to the Geneva Conventions, any doctors, medics, nurses, or corpsmen are not supposed to carry weapons, and must display a red cross insignia on their person or helmet to show they are a noncombatant. While these rules were usually respected in Europe, corpsmen serving in the Pacific quickly learned that
CHRONICLES OF MEDICAL HISTORY IN AFRICA GREAT …
1 Jun 2009 · of the greatness of her Ivory towers.Chronicles of medical history in Africa takes a look at the institutions where ... education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to ... students are Ibn Abi Usaybi ˇah (1 203-1270), the famous medical historian, and ˘Ala ad-Din Ibn al-Nafis (d ...
Zhang Zhongjing, Medical Sage - ResearchGate
School of Basic Medical Science, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100029, China ... In the long history of traditional Chinese medicine when ... famous practitioners in the Chinese ...
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Famous Medical Doctors In History: Doctors who Followed Christ Dan Graves, Examines the lives and accomplishments of thirty two physicians from throughout history whose Christian faith has influenced their work Medicine and Healers Through History Kara Rogers Senior Editor, Biomedical Sciences,2011-01-15 A chronology of famous doctors and other ...
Ancient philosophers on mental illness - SAGE Journals
mental disorders of the medical kind were distinguished from non-medical psychic disturbances. It establishes that, while the philosophers mostly understood mental illness along the lines of ancient medical thinking, their ideas, for example on the nature and location of the soul, informed their theories of mental illness. Keywords
Virtual Mentor - journalofethics.ama-assn.org
volunteering by students from overseas, ongoing medical missionary activities of churches and world religions, purely humanitarian services provided by modern medical missionaries like Doctors Without Borders and the initiatives of other organizations set up to deal with specific crises. This article sketches the history of
The Patient's View: Doing Medical History from below - Keio
ily a tale of medical self-help, or community care. In medicine's history, the initiatives have often come from, and power has frequently rested with, the sufferer, or with lay people in general, rather than with the individual physician or the medical profession at large. Wellcome Institutefor the History of Medicine, London.
