Medical history education for health practitioners. (2022)
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- Book
- Title:
- Medical history education for health practitioners. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Medical history education for health practitioners
- Further Information:
- Note: Lisetta Lovett, Alannah Tomkins.
- Authors:
- Lovett, Lisetta
Tomkins, Alannah - Contents:
- Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. EMERGENCY! Heroic patients. War wounds and amputees. Road traffic accidents: from horse carriages to motor vehicles. Accidents in the workplace. Primary care begins at home. Fatality, the coroner's court and medical responsibility. History of resuscitation in England. War to shellshock to post traumatic stress disorder. THE PLEASURES OF LIFE: FOOD, DRINK, DRUGS AND SEX. Fagged out: the medical uses and abuses of tobacco. Sweet teeth: the history of sugar consumption. Their cups runneth over. Friend or Foe: substance use. Before vitamins: the elusive ingredient. Green sickness and other anaemias. The 'single body' and changing understanding of sexuality. THE FACTS OF LIFE: WOMEN, HEALTH AND MEDICINE. On the blob and other menstrual euphemisms. How not to have a baby: the history of contraception. 'The sperm of men is full of small children' and other early ideas about conception. Labour - temporary pain but permanent disability? The medicalisation of childbirth. How midwives became 'gamps'. The 'change': menopause and its meanings. INFECTION, IMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH. The king's evil or wasting disease: tuberculosis. Health and livelihood. From variolation to vaccination. The germ theory of disease. Syphilis, self-pollution and stigma. Flu pandemics of the twentieth century. Child welfare. Water as a historical force. THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE; CHILDHOOD, DISABILITY, AGEING AND MENTAL ILLNESS. Child safeguarding. Two steps forward, oneAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. EMERGENCY! Heroic patients. War wounds and amputees. Road traffic accidents: from horse carriages to motor vehicles. Accidents in the workplace. Primary care begins at home. Fatality, the coroner's court and medical responsibility. History of resuscitation in England. War to shellshock to post traumatic stress disorder. THE PLEASURES OF LIFE: FOOD, DRINK, DRUGS AND SEX. Fagged out: the medical uses and abuses of tobacco. Sweet teeth: the history of sugar consumption. Their cups runneth over. Friend or Foe: substance use. Before vitamins: the elusive ingredient. Green sickness and other anaemias. The 'single body' and changing understanding of sexuality. THE FACTS OF LIFE: WOMEN, HEALTH AND MEDICINE. On the blob and other menstrual euphemisms. How not to have a baby: the history of contraception. 'The sperm of men is full of small children' and other early ideas about conception. Labour - temporary pain but permanent disability? The medicalisation of childbirth. How midwives became 'gamps'. The 'change': menopause and its meanings. INFECTION, IMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH. The king's evil or wasting disease: tuberculosis. Health and livelihood. From variolation to vaccination. The germ theory of disease. Syphilis, self-pollution and stigma. Flu pandemics of the twentieth century. Child welfare. Water as a historical force. THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE; CHILDHOOD, DISABILITY, AGEING AND MENTAL ILLNESS. Child safeguarding. Two steps forward, one step back: disability. Broken bones and failing joints. Ageing and the good death. What price immortality? Madness and fear. Mind and brain. PRACTISING MEDICINE: DIAGNOSTIC METHODS. Early Greek and Roman contributions. Excreta as a diagnostic tool. The rise of modern medicine: the evolution of physical diagnosis. The beat, beat, beat of the drum: the discovery of circulation and the tools to measure it. Toy to tool: the microscope. PRACTISING MEDICINE: INTERVENTIONS AND CURES. The appeal of the miracle cure. Medical misdirection. The rise of pharmacology: a story of prepared minds, money and serendipity. From party games to pain control: the early story of anaesthesia. Transplantation. Cutting for stone: the hazards of surgery. HEALERS AND HEALTH CARERS. From spicer to pharmacist. Diminishing Nightingale: an alternative history of nursing. The origins of physiotherapy. The shifting sands of health management. Answers. … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- Boca Raton : CRC Press
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 610.941
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History
Public health -- Great Britain -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000605129
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781000604818
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