55 Years German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine : Tradition and Innovation
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat31075
editor, Jürgen Schüttler ; on behalf of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
--Berlin, Heidelberg:
Springer
, c2012.
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This book presents to all those who are interested in the history of Anaesthesiology historical details and information on the development of anaesthesiology in Germany and the remarkable growth of our Society. At the founding session of the German Society of Anaesthesia in Munich on 10 April 1953 42 persons had signed the founding documents. Today about 12,000 anaesthetists are members of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, making the DGAI the biggest national so…
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- Corporate Author
- German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Other Authors
- Schüttler, J
- Responsibility
- editor, Jürgen Schüttler ; on behalf of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Alternate Title
- 55 Years German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Place of Publication
- Berlin, Heidelberg
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 220 p. : 180 ill.)
- ISBN
- 9783540682271
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Anesthesiology - history - Germany
- Critical Care - history - Germany
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Anesthesiology
- Critical care medicine
- History of Medicine
- Abstract
- This book presents to all those who are interested in the history of Anaesthesiology historical details and information on the development of anaesthesiology in Germany and the remarkable growth of our Society. At the founding session of the German Society of Anaesthesia in Munich on 10 April 1953 42 persons had signed the founding documents. Today about 12,000 anaesthetists are members of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, making the DGAI the biggest national society within ESA. Well known are the pioneering contributions of German scientists and surgeons to the development of general, regional and local anaesthesia during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. But less known outside Germany are the reasons for the delayed evolution of anaesthesiology as a specialty of its own in German medicine, far later than in the UK, Scandinavia or the USA. In this book you will find answers to this question and detailed information on the successful evolution of anaesthesiology especially at the Faculties of Medicine at German universities.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong : From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43104
Frank Ching.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2018.
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This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong's medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. When the University of Hong Kong was established in 1911, the College became its medical faculty. The faculty has gained distinction over the years for innovative surgical techniques, for discovering the SARS virus and for its contr…
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- Author
- Ching, Frank
- Responsibility
- Frank Ching
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 509 p.) : 132 illus., 86 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9789811063169
- 9789811063152 (print ed.)
- 9789811063176 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Education, Medical - history
- Schools, Medical - history
- Other Subjects
- Hong Kong
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Abstract
- This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong's medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. When the University of Hong Kong was established in 1911, the College became its medical faculty. The faculty has gained distinction over the years for innovative surgical techniques, for discovering the SARS virus and for its contribution to advances in medical and health sciences. This book is meant for general readers as well as medical practitioners. It is a work for anyone interested in Hong Kong or in medical education.
- Contents
- 1. Prologue -- 2. Missionaries: And a Hospital -- 3. The College of Medicine for Chinese: The Early Years -- 4. The Bubonic Plague: And a Degree of Recognition -- 5. Metamorphosis -- 6. A Brave New World -- 7. War: The University in Suspended Animation -- 8. After the Re-establishment -- 9. A.J.S. McFadzean: The Department of Medicine Steps Up -- 10. The Hong Kong Operation -- 11. Taking Hong Kong Surgery to the World -- 12. Faculty Evolves into Regional Medical Education Hub -- 13. Preparing for the Handover -- 14. Bird Flu, SARS and Beyond -- 15. The Naming of the Faculty -- 16. The Faculty Spreads Its Wings.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance : The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497-1558)
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42871
Linda Deer Richardson ; Benjamin Goldberg, editor.
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Springer
, c2018.
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This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on the history of embryology and animal generation written before 1980. It also contains translations of key sect…
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- Author
- Deer Richardson, Linda
- Other Authors
- Goldberg, Benjamin
- Responsibility
- Linda Deer Richardson ; Benjamin Goldberg, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 301 p.) : 11 illus
- Series Vol.
- v. 22
- Series Title
- History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences
- ISBN
- 9783319693361
- 9783319693347 (print ed.)
- 9783319693354 (print ed.)
- 9783319887579 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2211-1948
- Subjects (MeSH)
- History, 16th Century
- History of Medicine
- Philosophy, Medical - history
- Reproduction
- PersonalSubject
- Fernel, Jean, 1497-1558
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Reproductive Medicine
- Notes
- Reproduction of: Academic theories of generation in the Renaissance / Linda Allen Deer, 1980.
- Abstract
- This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on the history of embryology and animal generation written before 1980. It also contains translations of key sections of the works on which it is focused. It looks at two different scholarly communities: the physicians (medici) and philosophers (philosophi), that share a set of textual resources and philosophical lineages, as well as a shared problem (explaining animal generation), but that nevertheless have different concerns and commitments. The book demonstrates how those working in these two traditions not only shared a common philosophical background in the arts curricula of the universities, but were in constant intercourse with each other. This book presents a test case of how scholarly communities differentiate themselves from each other through methods of argument, empirical investigation, and textual interpretations. It is all the more interesting because the two communities under investigation have so much in common and yet, in the end, are distinct in a number of important ways.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The AIDS Pandemic : Searching for a Global Response
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42955
Michael Merson, Stephen Inrig.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHO employed over the years, and expound on the factors that led to the Programme's demise and subsequent formation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAID…
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- Author
- Merson, Michael
- Other Authors
- Inrig, Stephen
- Responsibility
- Michael Merson, Stephen Inrig
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 445 p.) : 20 illus
- ISBN
- 9783319471334
- 9783319471327 (print ed.)
- 9783319471341 (print ed.)
- 9783319484310 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - prevention & control
- Global Health
- Pandemics - prevention & control
- Program Evaluation
- Other Subjects
- World Health Organization
- Abstract
- This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHO employed over the years, and expound on the factors that led to the Programme's demise and subsequent formation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The authors examine the global impact of this momentous transition, portray the current status of the global response to AIDS, and explore the precarious situation that WHO finds itself in today as a lead United Nations agency in global health. Several aspects of the global response—the strategies adopted, the roads taken and not taken, and the lessons learned—can provide helpful guidance to the global health community as it continues tackling the AIDS pandemic and confronts future global pandemics. Included in the coverage: The response before the global response Building and coordinating a multi-sectoral response Containing the global spread of HIV Addressing stigma, discrimination, and human rights Rethinking global AIDS governance UNAIDS: finding its place in congested waters The AIDS Pandemic will find an engaged audience among policymakers, students, faculty, journalists, researchers, and other health professionals working and interested in global health, public health, the World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS, global pandemics, the history of medicine, and global health policy. It will also interest those involved in international relations, international development, global affairs and governance, the United Nations, and NGOs.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Global Mobilization in a Pandemic -- 1. The Response Before the Global Response -- 2. The Launch of the Control Programme on AIDS -- 3. Creating a Global Response -- 4. Assuming Global Leadership -- 5. Building and Coordinating a Multisectoral Response -- 6. Health, Human Rights, and the Global Programme on AIDS -- 7. The Resignation of Jonathan Mann -- Part II. From Mobilization to Managing in a Pandemic -- 8. The Transition -- 9. Enhancing Program Delivery -- 10. Containing the Global Spread of HIV -- 11. Supporting Research -- 12. Addressing Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights -- 13. Challenges and Criticisms -- 14. Growing Tensions Among United Nations Agencies -- Part III. Seeking Global Coordination in a Pandemic -- 15. Rethinking Global AIDS Governance -- 16. End of the Global Programme on AIDS and the Launch of UNAIDS -- 17. UNAIDS: Trying to Gain Traction -- 18. UNAIDS: Finding its Place in Congested Waters -- Part IV. Lessons Learned and the Future of the Global Response -- 19. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Background on the Formation and Structure of the World Health Organization -- Appendix 2. Structure of the United Nations -- Appendix 3. Interviews -- Appendix 4. Establishment of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Timeline -- Appendix 5. World Health Organization 1993 Study of a Joint and co-sponsored United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: Synopsis of Options at Global Level -- Appendix 6. World Health Organization 1993 Study of a Joint and co-sponsored United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: Synopsis of Options at Country Level -- Appendix 7. United Nations Economic and Social Council Resolution 1994/24 on Joint and co-sponsored Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Appendix 8. UNAIDS Technical Support Division of Labor, Summary and Rationale 2005: Division of Responsibility Among UNAIDS co-sponsors -- Glossary of terms.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
An introduction to the history of medicine : with medical chronology, suggestions for study and bibliographic data
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53685
Garrison, Fielding H.
(4th ed.)
--Philadelphia ; London:
W. B. Saunders
, 1929.
- Call Number
- WZ 40 G23 1929 RES Historical Collection
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Call Number
- WZ 40 G23 1929 RES Historical Collection
- Author
- Garrison, Fielding H.
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia ; London
- Publisher
- W. B. Saunders
- Date of Publication
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 996 p. : ill.
- Subjects (MeSH)
- History of Medicine
- Notes
- Title on spine: History of Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Copies
- 2
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Blacks in Medicine : Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45205
Richard Allen Williams.
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Springer
, c2020.
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This socially conscious, culturally relevant book explores the little-known history and present climate of Black people in the medical field. It reveals the deficiencies in the American healthcare structure that have contributed to the mismanagement of healthcare in the Black population, and examines cross-currents that intersect with the major events in minority medical history. Illustrated across 10 expertly written chapters, this text features a longitudinal timeline with the presentation of…
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- Author
- Williams, Richard Allen
- Responsibility
- Richard Allen Williams
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 200 p.) : 146 illus., 102 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030419608
- 9783030419592 (Print ed.)
- 9783030419615 (Print ed.)
- 9783030419622 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- African Americans - history
- History of Medicine
- Race Factors
- Racism
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Social Sciences
- Abstract
- This socially conscious, culturally relevant book explores the little-known history and present climate of Black people in the medical field. It reveals the deficiencies in the American healthcare structure that have contributed to the mismanagement of healthcare in the Black population, and examines cross-currents that intersect with the major events in minority medical history. Illustrated across 10 expertly written chapters, this text features a longitudinal timeline with the presentation of evidence-based information drawn from historical, political, and clinical sources. The book begins with an analysis of diseases particularly prevalent in the Black community due to socioeconomic inequalities in available medical care. These diseases include sickle cell anemia, hypertension, heart failure, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Bolstered by profiles of historically well-known Black physicians, stories of success in medical education, and the remarkable impact of Black medical organizations, subsequent chapters address the triumphs and tribulations of the Black medical professional in America. Concluding with an examination of the current health status of Black people in the United States, the book makes a case for future systemic improvements in healthcare delivery to minority communities. A unique, noteworthy reference, Blacks in Medicine: Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations is written for a broad range of physicians and health providers, as well as professionals in the social sciences and public health.
- Contents
- 1. Five Diseases That Are Devastating the African American Population -- 2. Profiles in Courage: African American Medical Pioneers in the United States—The Earliest Black Practitioners -- 3. Evolution of the Black Physician: Medical Education and Treatment Facilities for Blacks -- 4. The Impact of Black Medical Organizations on African American Health -- 5. Healthcare Reform Law (Obamacare): Update on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” and the Persistence of Polarization on Repeal and Replace -- 6. Outstanding Black Physicians and Other Health Professionals in American History -- 7. The Importance of Trust in the Physician-Patient Relationship and in Medical Care -- 8. Current Health Status of Blacks in the United States: The Case for Future Improvement of Healthcare Delivery -- 9. The Socioeconomic Determinants of Health and Their Impact on African American Healthcare Delivery -- 10. Conclusion and Afterword.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
British medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat54712
Wilson, R. McNair.
--London, EN:
William Collins
, 1941.
- Call Number
- WZ 70 M36 1941 RES Historical Collection
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Call Number
- WZ 70 M36 1941 RES Historical Collection
- Author
- Wilson, R. McNair
- Place of Publication
- London, EN
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Date of Publication
- 1941
- Physical Description
- 49 p. : ill. (some col.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Medicine
- History of Medicine
- United Kingdom
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
A century of care : a history of the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, 1887-1987
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat20292
Howell, Colin D.
--Halifax, NS:
Victoria General Hospital
, 1988.
- Call Number
- WX 28 DC2.2 H2 V645 1988
- Location
- Dickson Building
- Halifax Infirmary
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Yarmouth Regional Hospital
- Call Number
- WX 28 DC2.2 H2 V645 1988
- Author
- Howell, Colin D
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Victoria General Hospital
- Date of Publication
- 1988
- Physical Description
- 128 p.
- ISBN
- 096934081
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Victoria General Hospital (Halifax, N.S.) - history
- Hospitals - history - Nova Scotia
- History of Medicine - Nova Scotia
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Dickson Building
- Halifax Infirmary
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Yarmouth Regional Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks use
A century of homeopaths : their influence on medicine and health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33444
Jonathan Davidson.
--New York:
Springer
, c2014.
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"As the values of integrative medicine continues to grow, alternative points of view and treatments are increasing in acceptance and prevalence. Homeopathic medicine is considered an important root to this approach. However, contributions of homeopathically qualified doctors have long been overlooked. A Century of Homeopaths is a detailed account of the many homeopaths who have contributed to medical progress since 1840. The accomplishments of over 100 homeopaths form the organizing structure o…
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- Author
- Davidson, Jonathan R. T
- Responsibility
- Jonathan Davidson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages)
- ISBN
- 9781493905270 (electronic book)
- 9781493905263
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Homeopathy - Biography
- Homeopathy - History
- History of Medicine
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Homeopathic physicians - Biography
- Homeopathy - History
- Homeopathy - Biography
- Health Personnel - Biography
- History, 19th Century - Biography
- History, 20th Century - Biography
- Abstract
- "As the values of integrative medicine continues to grow, alternative points of view and treatments are increasing in acceptance and prevalence. Homeopathic medicine is considered an important root to this approach. However, contributions of homeopathically qualified doctors have long been overlooked. A Century of Homeopaths is a detailed account of the many homeopaths who have contributed to medical progress since 1840. The accomplishments of over 100 homeopaths form the organizing structure of the book -- many of whom have been lost to history. The text describes the ways in which homeopaths have influenced medical practice, research and public health, as well as the seminal effect of homeopaths in the emergence of today's medical specialties and in social reform, thus providing insights to healthcare professionals, researchers, students and medical historians"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Samuel Hahnemann: Rebarbative Genius -- 3. Women, Reform, and Medical Leadership -- 4. The Homeopathic Scalpel: Contributions to Surgery from the World of Homeopathy -- 5. Homeopaths and the Dawning of Anesthesiology -- 6. Homeopathy and the Mind: From Alienists to Neuroscientists -- 7. Public Health -- 8. The Early Days of Radiation: Homeopathic Shadows -- 9. Heartbeat, Heart Failure, and Homeopathy -- 10. Allergy and Allergic Disorders: Homeopathic Leaders -- 11. Academic Homeopaths Reinvented -- 12. Oncology -- 13. Other Stars in the Sky -- 14. Congress, Parliament, Presidents, and Monarchs -- 15. Bioethics and the Contributions of Otto Guttentag -- 16. Less Is More: Finding the Right Dose -- 17. A Homeopathic Rogues' Gallery -- 18. Concluding Thoughts.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard : The Biography of a Tormented Genius
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39620
Louis-Cyril Celestin.
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Springer
, c2014.
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Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of…
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- Author
- Celestin, Louis-Cyril
- Responsibility
- Louis-Cyril Celestin
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 281 p. : 13 illus., 1 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319030203
- 9783319030197 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- History of Medicine
- Neurology - history
- PersonalSubject
- Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894
- Abstract
- Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.
- Contents
- Physiology in the Nineteenth Century -- The Birthplace -- The Forebears -- The Formative Years: 1817-1837 -- The Medical Student: 1838-1846 -- The Lone Experimenter: 1846-1851 -- The Visitor to America: 1852-1853 -- The Cholera Physician: 1854 -- The Richmond Professor: 1854-1855 -- The Paris Practitioner: 1856-1857 -- The Itinerant Lecturer: 1856-1859 -- The London Consultant Neurologist: 1860-1864 -- The Harvard Professor: 1864-1867 -- The Paris Course Lecturer: 1869-1872 -- The New York Practitioner: 1872-1874 -- The Indigent Physician: 1874-1877 -- The College de France Professor: 1878-1894 -- The Father of Hormonal Therapy: 1889-1893 -- The Last Years: 1892-1894.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Biography
- Location
- Online
Chiropractic history
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat18064
Association for the History of Chiropractic
- Available Online
- View e-Journal
- Holdings
- Vol 24, 2004 -
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Journal
- Publisher
- Association for the History of Chiropractic
- Holdings
- Vol 24, 2004 -
- ISSN
- 0736-4377
- Format
- e-Journal
- Location
- Online
Colonial physician & other essays, The
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53075
Bell, Whitfield Jenks.
--New York, NY:
Science History Publication
, 1975.
- Call Number
- WZ 140 AP4 B4c 1975 RES Historical Collection
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Call Number
- WZ 140 AP4 B4c 1975 RES Historical Collection
- Author
- Bell, Whitfield Jenks
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Science History Publication
- Date of Publication
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 235 p.
- Subjects (MeSH)
- History, 18th Century
- History of Medicine
- Physicians
- Pennsylvania
- Format
- Book
- Publication Type
- Essays
- Biography
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
The Corporatization of American Health Care : The Rise of Corporate Hegemony and the Loss of Professional Autonomy
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat46516
J. Warren Salmon, Stephen L. Thompson.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2021.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Access
- NEW Springer 2021
- Location
- Online
In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions. Conditions affecting the American medical profession have been dramatically altered by the continuing crises of cost increases, quality concerns, and lack of access facing our population, along with the on…
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- View e-Book
- Author
- Salmon, J. Warren
- Other Authors
- Thompson, Stephen L.
- Responsibility
- J. Warren Salmon, Stephen L. Thompson
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 307 p.) : 1 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030606671
- 9783030606664 (Print ed.)
- 9783030606688 (Print ed.)
- 9783030606695 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Delivery of Health Care - economics
- Health Policy
- Health Services Administration - economics
- History of Medicine
- Professional Practice
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Abstract
- In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions. Conditions affecting the American medical profession have been dramatically altered by the continuing crises of cost increases, quality concerns, and lack of access facing our population, along with the ongoing corporatization toward bottom-line dictates. Pressures on practitioners have been intensifying with much greater scrutiny over their clinical decision-making. The Corporatization of American Health Care offers different perspectives with the hopes that physicians will unite in a new awareness and common cause to curtail excessive profit-making, renew professional altruism, restore the charitable impulse to health provider institutions, and unite with other professionals to truly raise levels of population health and the quality of health care. It is also a necessary resource for health policy analysts, healthcare administrators, health law attorneys, and other associated health professions.
- Contents
- 1. History of the Corporatization of American Medicine: The Market Paradigm Reigns -- 2. Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Drug Store Chains, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager/Insurer Integration -- 3. Medical Practice: From Cottage Industry to Corporate Practice -- 4. Medical Malpractice Crisis: Oversight of the Practice of Medicine -- 5. Big Data: Information Technology as Control over the Profession of Medicine -- 6. Physician Employment Status: Collective Bargaining and Strikes -- 7. Conclusion: Progressive Directions.
- Access
- NEW Springer 2021
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42824
Stephan Gregory Bullard.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This powerful history describes the daily progression of the Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa and struck Europe and America from December 2013 to June 2016. A case study on a massive scale, it follows the narratives of numerous patients as well as the journey of physicians and scientists from discovery to action and from tracking to containment. The unfolding story reveals ever-shifting complexities such as the varied paths the infection took from country to country, the multiple re…
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- Author
- Bullard, Stephan Gregory
- Responsibility
- Stephan Gregory Bullard
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 332 p.) : 5 illus
- ISBN
- 9783319765655
- 9783319765648 (print ed.)
- 9783319765662 (print ed.)
- 9783030095239 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Epidemics - history
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - history
- Abstract
- This powerful history describes the daily progression of the Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa and struck Europe and America from December 2013 to June 2016. A case study on a massive scale, it follows the narratives of numerous patients as well as the journey of physicians and scientists from discovery to action and from tracking to containment. The unfolding story reveals ever-shifting complexities such as the varied paths the infection took from country to country, the multiple responses of community members, and the occurrence of flare-ups when the outbreak was seemingly over. The book's finely-documented present-tense reporting records key facts, events, and observations, including: Routes of Ebola transmission, incubation, symptoms, short- and long-term effects on survivors; Early attempts to understand and contain the virus and curb practices contributing to its spread; Medical, governmental, and public responses, from local education programs to global efforts; Communication and conflict between healthcare workers and communities; Social and economic outcomes of Ebola in the affected nations. Ebola remains incurable, although a vaccine is now available. For members of the medical community, public health officials, medical historians, scholarly professionals, and interested laypeople, A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak makes starkly clear what we can learn from these events not only for future outbreaks of Ebola, but also for the emergence of as-yet unknown diseases.
- Contents
- Introduction -- History of Ebola -- Clinical Features of Ebola -- Phase I: Initial Outbreak Period (December 2013 - May 14, 2014) -- Phase II: Major Outbreak Period (May 15, 2014 - March 5, 2015) -- Phase III: Lingering Outbreak Period (March 6, 2015 - Jan 14, 2016) -- Outbreak Conclusion & Summary -- Appendixes.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Epidemic encounters : influenza, society and culture in Canada, 1918-20
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25487
Fahrni, Magda.
--Vancouver, BC:
UBC Press
, c2012.
- Call Number
- WC 11 DC2 E64 2012
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- WC 11 DC2 E64 2012
- Author
- Fahrni, Magda
- Other Authors
- Jones, Esyllt W
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver, BC
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Date of Publication
- c2012
- Physical Description
- 290 p.
- ISBN
- 9780774822121
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Epidemics - history - Canada
- Influenza, Human - history - Canada
- Public Health - history - Canada
- History of Medicine - Canada
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53282
Baskett, Thomas F.
(3rd ed.)
--New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press
, 2019.
- Call Number
- WQ 13 B3158 2019 REF
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- REFERENCE
- Call Number
- WQ 13 B3158 2019 REF
- Author
- Baskett, Thomas F.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 521 p. : ill.
- ISBN
- 9.78E+11
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Genital Diseases, Female
- Obstetrics - history
- Gynecology - history
- Eponyms
- History of Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Publication Type
- Biography
- Dictionary
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- REFERENCE
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- In library use
Evolution of modern medicine : a series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat54698
Osler, William.
--New Haven, CT:
Yale University
, 1982.
- Call Number
- WZ 17 O92 1921 RES Historical Collection
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Call Number
- WZ 17 O92 1921 RES Historical Collection
- Author
- Osler, William
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Publisher
- Yale University
- Date of Publication
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 239 p.
- Series Title
- Classics of medicine library, The
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Medicine - history
- History of Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE - Historical Collection
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Foundations of Ophthalmology : Great Insights that Established the Discipline
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41838
Michael F. Marmor, Daniel M. Albert, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
There have been books over the years discussing the history of ophthalmology, but none that focus directly on just the most critical thinkers whose insights provided the foundation for the discipline. These men and women advanced knowledge about vision, diagnosis, disease mechanisms, and therapy through innovative thinking and perseverance against old ideas. Their stories are intriguing at a personal level and for showing the complexity of advancing medical science and, therefore, should be req…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Marmor, Michael F
- Albert, Daniel M
- Responsibility
- Michael F. Marmor, Daniel M. Albert, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 221 pages) : 155 illus., 55 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319596419
- 9783319596402 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- History of Medicine
- Ophthalmology - Biography
- Ophthalmology - history
- Abstract
- There have been books over the years discussing the history of ophthalmology, but none that focus directly on just the most critical thinkers whose insights provided the foundation for the discipline. These men and women advanced knowledge about vision, diagnosis, disease mechanisms, and therapy through innovative thinking and perseverance against old ideas. Their stories are intriguing at a personal level and for showing the complexity of advancing medical science and, therefore, should be required reading for anyone practicing ophthalmology. Foundations of Ophthalmology includes giants such as Young (the nature of color and light), Braille (a practical reading system for the blind), Helmholtz (development of the ophthalmoscope), von Graefe (defining glaucoma), Curie (discovery of radiation and the basis of radiation therapy), Gonin (demonstration how to cure retinal detachment), Ridley (serendipity that led to intraocular lenses), and Kelman (development of phacoemulsification that revolutionized cataract surgery).
- Contents
- 1. Johannes Kepler and René Descartes: A Retinal Image is Transmitted to the Brain -- 2. Jacques Daviel and the Invention of Modern Cataract Surgery -- 3. John Dalton: the Recognition of Color Deficiency -- 4. Thomas Young and the Foundations of Light, Color, and Optics -- 5. Valentin Haüy and Louis Braille: Enabling Education for the Blind -- 6. Jan Evangelista Purkinje: Visual Physiologist -- 7. Franciscus Donders: The Management of Anomalies of Refraction -- 8. Hermann von Helmholtz: The Power of Ophthalmoscopy -- 9. Albrecht von Graefe: The Beginnings of Scientific Ophthalmology and Education -- 10. Karl Koller: The Introduction of Local Anesthesia -- 11. Allvar Gullstrand: Dioptrics of the Eye and the Slit Lamp -- 12. Marie Curie: Radiation as Medium That Can Cure -- 13. Jules Gonin: Proving the Cause and Cure of Retinal Detachment -- 14. Harold Ridley: The Development of a Plastic Implantable Lens -- 15. Arnall Patz and Norman Alston: Oxygen and Retinopathy of Prematurity -- 16. Charles Kelman: Phacoemulsification and Small Incision Cataract Surgery.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The fourth factor : a historical perspective on architecture and medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat24078
Currie, John Michael.
AIA Academy of Architecture for Health.
--Washington, DC:
American Institute of Architects
, 2007.
- Call Number
- WX 140 C976f 2007
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- WX 140 C976f 2007
- Author
- Currie, John Michael
- Corporate Author
- AIA Academy of Architecture for Health
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Publisher
- American Institute of Architects
- Date of Publication
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 191 p.
- ISBN
- 9781571650184
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Hospital Design and Construction - history
- History of Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
From Aspirin to Viagra : Stories of the Drugs that Changed the World
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45430
Vladimir Marko.
--Cham:
Springer ; published in association with Praxis Publishing
, c2020.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn’t born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries. This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential drugs often began with the right person …
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Responsibility
- Vladimir Marko
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer ; published in association with Praxis Publishing
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 276 p.) : 3 illus.
- Series
- Springer Praxis books in popular science
- Popular Science
- Series Title
- Springer Praxis books. Popular science
- ISBN
- 9783030442866
- 9783030442859 (Print ed.)
- 9783030442873 (Print ed.)
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Pharmacology
- Abstract
- From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn’t born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries. This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential drugs often began with the right person at the exactly right—or wrong time.
- Contents
- 1. Aspirin -- 2. Quinine -- 3. Vitamin C -- 4. Insulin -- 5. Penicillin -- 6. The Pill -- 7. Chlorpromazine -- 8. Prozac -- 9. Viagra -- 10. Vaccines -- 11. Conclusion.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
