Dr Mutter s Marvels

• Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 04 September 2014

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight,

• Author : Marguerite Vigliani,Gale Eaton,Phillip Hoose
• Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
• Release : 27 June 2017

Vigliani and Eaton’s high-interest exploration of medicine begins in prehistory. The 5,000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have treated his gallstones, Lyme disease, and hardening of the arteries with the 61 tattoos that covered his body—most of which matched acupuncture points—and the walnut-sized pieces of fungus he carried on his belt. The herbal medicines chamomile and yarrow have been found on 50,000-year-old teeth, and neatly bored holes in prehistoric skulls show that Neolithic surgeons relieved pressure

• Author : Neil Gaiman
• Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
• Release : 24 February 2010

Neil Gaiman's vision of the Marvel Universe in the year 1602! The year is 1602, and strange things are stirring in England. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. Stephen Strange senses that the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings

• Author : David Lesondak
• Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Release : 21 October 2022

As the title suggests, this book presents a clear and easy to understand explanation of what the fascia is and the role it plays in the body. As the importance of fascia is increasingly recognized it became obvious that there was a need for a book that clearly and concisely presents the facts. This is that book. It has a strong storyline, with each chapter logically connecting to the next, rather like fascia itself! It is informative and satisfying to

• Author : Robert S Farmer MD
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 23 October 2017

A New, Successful, Unique, Effective, and Definitive approach that recognizes chronic diseases as parasitic infections, and cures them. Exposing medical fallacies and revealing the truth about so-called "incurable" diseases. Why the modern medical model is wrong and your doctor doesn't have a clue. Why modern medicine is insanely expensive, overpriced, and often harmful, actually worse than useless. Contains self-help, medical knowledge, and medical history to explain how to regain much of your youthful beauty and energy, while curing chronic pain,

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 2023

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 2023

• Author : Nancy S. Kim
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 14 February 2019

Problems regarding the nature of consent are at the heart of many of today's most pressing issues. For example, the #MeToo movement has underscored the need to move beyond viewing consent as a simple matter of yes or no. Consent is complex because humans and their relationships are complicated. Humans, as a result of cognitive limitations and emotional and physical vulnerabilities, are susceptible to manipulation and mistakes. Given the potential for regret, are there some things to which one should

• Author : Pamela Smith,Paula Findlen
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 18 October 2013

The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.

• Author : Paul E. Stepansky Ph.D.
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 23 May 2016

Written by a highly respected medical historian, this book examines how and why medical caring—including the role of touch and procedure in caregiving—has evolved in recent decades and how these changes have affected doctor-patient trust as well as patient health and the "health" of the current medical system. • Draws on medical history since the early 19th century to demonstrate how the procedural aspects of medicine are foundational to trusting doctor-patient relationships • Examines how the diminished authority of physicians

• Author : Lee McIntyre
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 07 April 2020

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims

• Author : Rebecca Gibson
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 16 November 2020

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset occupies a familiar but exotic space in modern consciousness, created by two sometimes contradictory narrative arcs: the texts that women wrote regarding their own corseting experiences and the recorded opinions of the medical community during the 19th century. Combining these texts with skeletal age

• Author : Paul A Offit
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 21 September 2021

One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for today 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

• Author : Thomas Schlich
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 12 December 2017

This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for purposes of research or

• Author : John B. Cameron
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 30 September 2021

The 30th North Carolina Infantry was involved in most of the major battles in Virginia from the Seven Days through the surrender at Appomattox, and saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War. Two-thirds of these men volunteered early; the others were enlisted at the point of a bayonet. Their casualty rate was high, the rate of death from disease was higher and the desertion and AWOL rate was higher still. What was the war actually like