Health and Medicine through History: From Ancient Practices to 21st-Century Innovations [3 volumes]
byRuth Clifford Engs, RN, EdD, is professor emerita of applied health science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington.
20190808
Greenwood
Pages | 1176 |
Topics | Diseases;Drugs and Remedies;Environmental and Occupational Hazards;Healing and the Arts;Infant and Children's Health;Medical Education and Training;Medical Institutions;Mental and Emotional Health;Religion and Medicine;Surgeons and Surgery;War, Health, and Medicine |
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This three-volume set provides a comprehensive yet concise global exploration of health and medicine from ancient times to the present day, helping readers to trace the development of concepts and practices around the world.
• Offers a comprehensive yet concise view of the subject, covering all of human history and all inhabited regions of the world within approachable sections• Allows readers to trace the evolution of different aspects of health and medicine, helping them to understand why and how our understanding of health has changed over time
• Includes a curated collection of over 100 primary sources to give readers a first-hand look at many aspects of health during different historical time periods around the world
• Follows a standardized chapter structure that makes finding information on specific aspects of health and medicine and comparing/contrasting these aspects from one time period to another easy
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Table of Contents
Health and Medicine through History: From Ancient Practices to 21st-Century Innovations [3 volumes]
Author(s): Ruth Clifford EngsContributors: Engs, Ruth;Abstract:This three-volume set provides a comprehensive yet concise global exploration of health and medicine from ancient times to the present day, helping readers to trace the development of concepts and practices around the world.
• Offers a comprehensive yet concise view of the subject, covering all of human history and all inhabited regions of the world within approachable sections• Allows readers to trace the evolution of different aspects of health and medicine, helping them to understand why and how our understanding of health has changed over time
• Includes a curated collection of over 100 primary sources to give readers a first-hand look at many aspects of health during different historical time periods around the world
• Follows a standardized chapter structure that makes finding information on specific aspects of health and medicine and comparing/contrasting these aspects from one time period to another easy
Editor(s): Engs, Ruth;SortTitle: health and medicine through history: from ancient practices to 21st-century innovations [3 volumes]Author Info:Ruth Clifford EngseditorRuth Clifford Engs, RN, EdD, is professor emerita of applied health science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington.
eISBN-13: 9781440858925Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440858925.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440858918Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 1176Publication Date: 20190808- Cover Cover11
- Title Page 34
- Copyright 45
- Dedication 56
- Contents 78
- Acknowledgments 1112
- Introduction 1314
- Volume 1: Antiquity through the 18th Century 78
- Part 1: Antiquity through the Middle Ages William H. York 1516
- 1: Key Factors in Health and Wellness 1718
- 2: Education and Training 3132
- 3: Religion and Medicine 5152
- 4: Women’s Health 6566
- 5: Infant and Children’s Health 8182
- 6: Diseases 9596
- 7: Environmental and Occupational Hazards 111112
- 8: Surgery and Medical Procedures 123124
- 9: Mental Health 143144
- 10: Drugs and Remedies 155156
- 11: War, Health, and Medicine 169170
- 12: Medical Institutions 179180
- 13: Disease and Healing in the Arts 191192
- Part 2: 15th through 18th Centuries 205206
- 1: Key Factors in Health and Wellness 207208
- 2: Education and Training 219220
- 3: Religion and Medicine 233234
- 4: Women’s Health 245246
- 5: Infant and Children’s Health 259260
- 6: Diseases 269270
- 7: Environmental and Occupational Hazards 285286
- 8: Surgery and Medical Procedures 297298
- 9: Mental Health 309310
- 10: Drugs and Remedies 323324
- 11: War, Health, and Medicine 339340
- 12: Medical Institutions 353354
- 13. Disease and Healing in the Arts 369370
- About the Editor and Contributors 393394
- Index 395396
- Volume 2: 19th through 21st Centuries 429430
- Part 3: 19th CenturyDeborah Brunton 435436
- 1: Key Factors in Health and Wellness 437438
- 2: Education and Training 449450
- 3: Religion and Medicine 463464
- 4: Women’s Health 475476
- 5: Infant and Children’s Health 489490
- 6: Diseases 501502
- 7: Occupational and Environmental Hazards 515516
- 8: Surgery and Medical Procedures 527528
- 9: Mental Health 541542
- 10: Drugs and Remedies 553554
- 11: War, Health, and Medicine 567568
- 12: Medical Institutions 581582
- 13: Disease and Healing in the Arts 593594
- Part 4: 20th Century and Beyond 619620
- 1: Key Factors in Health and Wellness 621622
- 2: Education and Training 633634
- 3: Religion and Medicine 651652
- 4: Women’s Health 669670
- 5: Infant and Children’s Health 683684
- 6: Diseases 699700
- 7: Environmental and Occupational Hazards 713714
- 8: Surgery and Medical Procedures 731732
- 9: Mental Health 745746
- 10: Drugs and Remedies 761762
- 11: War, Health, and Medicine 779780
- 12: Medical Institutions 795796
- 13: Disease and Healing in the Arts 811812
- About the Editor andContributors 855856
- Index 857858
- Volume 3: Data and Documents 891892
- Part 5: Data and Documents 895896
- Data 897898
- Population and Death Rates 897898
- Maternal and Child Health 907908
- 6: Comparison of Maternal Death Rates between Physicians and Midwives (1839–1846) 907908
- 7: Maternal Mortality in England (1700–1850) 908909
- 8: Maternal Mortality Rate in the United States (1900–1997) 909910
- 9: Reduction in Infant Mortality (1915–1997) 910911
- 10: United States Abortion Rate (1973–2014) 911912
- 11: Decrease in Maternal Mortality (1990–2015) 912913
- 12: Child Labor Around the World (2012) 913914
- 13: Contraception Use and Unmet Needs Globally (2015) 914915
- 14: Life Expectancy: Infant and Childhood Mortality Statistics (2015) 915916
- Diseases 917918
- 15. Deaths from Plague and Other Causes in London (1593) 917918
- 16. Diseases and Casualties (1670) 919920
- 17. Decline in Diphtheria Deaths in Chicago (1905) 920921
- 18. Global Tuberculosis Mortality Trends (1950–1970) 921922
- 19. Reported Incidence of Measles in WHO Regions(1990–1995) 923924
- 20. Global Burden of Disease (1990–2020) 924925
- 21. Impact of Increasing Average Temperature (2007) 925926
- 22. Death Rates from Infectious Diseases (1900–1999) 926927
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse 929930
- 23. Opium Imports into China (1650–1880) 929930
- 24. Average Number of Years Spent in Mental Institutions (1845) 930931
- 25. Multilateral Agreements on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances (1909–1988) 932933
- 26. Alcohol Consumption per WHO Region (2005) 933934
- 27. Estimated Annual Percentage of Opiate Use(1907 and 2006) 934935
- 28. Opiate Prescriptions per Year (1991–2013) 935936
- 29. Prevalence of Tobacco Smoking (2010–2025) 936937
- Primary Documents 939940
- 1: Hammurabi’s Laws Concerning Sickness and Medical Practice (ca. 1750 b.c.e) 939940
- 2: Recipes to Treat Diseases of Women in Ancient Egypt (ca. 1500 b.c.e.) 941942
- 3: Circulation of the Blood As Seen by Ancient Egyptians (ca. 1500 b.c.e.) 945946
- 4: Duties of a Physician in Ancient Ayurvedic Medicine (ca. 1500–400 b.c.e.) 948949
- 5: Impregnation and Pregnancy in Ancient Ayurvedic Medicine (ca. 1500–400 b.c.e.) 950951
- 6: Empedocles: Poem on Elements, Creation, and Conception (Fifth Century b.c.e.) 952953
- 7: Celsus: Fevers and Cures from Roman Antiquity(10 c.e.) 955956
- 8: Celsus: Treating Fractures in Roman Antiquity(10 c.e.) 958959
- 9: Galen Debates Other Physicians and Philosophers (180 c.e.) 960961
- 10: Chinese Medicine from the Yellow Emperor(ca. 200 c.e.) 962963
- 11: Aphorisms of Hippocrates for Medical Students(ca. Fifth Century c.e.) 965966
- 12: Three Kinds of Hindu Indian Treatments(ca. Sixth Century c.e.) 968969
- 13: Amputation in Antiquity (ca. SeventhCentury c.e.) 970971
- 14: Treatment for Respiratory Illnesses and Tuberculosis (1412) 973974
- 15: Paracelsus: Theses on Medicine (1500s) 976977
- 16: Aztec Smallpox Victims (ca. 1520) 978979
- 17: Girolamo Fracastoro: Description of Syphilis (1530) 979980
- 18: Vesalius: Anatomy of Bones and Cartilages of the Head (1543) 981982
- 19: Chinese Vaccination Procedure (ca. 1549) 983984
- 20: William Harvey: Circulation of the Blood(1628) 984985
- 21: John Graunt: Mortality Rates in Britain in the 17th Century (1662) 986987
- 22: Symptoms of Depression and Other Mental Conditions (1686) 989990
- 23: James Lind: Experiments on Scurvy (1753) 992993
- 24: Matthew Carey: Scourge of Yellow Fever (1794) 994995
- 25: Edward Jenner: An Inquiry into Cowpox(1798) 997998
- 26: Fluid Movement into Organs Causes Complex Changes (1809) 9991,000
- 27: Sylvester Graham: Intemperance, the Cause of Cholera (1832) 10011,002
- 28: Digitalis: An Advance in Drug Treatment from the Beginning of Modern Therapeutics (1847) 10031,004
- 29: Rāzī: A Treatise on the Smallpox (1848) 10051,006
- 30: John Snow: Mode of Communication of Cholera (1855) 10071,008
- 31: Henri Dunant: History of the Red Cross (1862) 10091,010
- 32: Louisa May Alcott: Experience as a Civil War Nurse (1863) 10111,012
- 33: Gray’s Anatomy: Muscles of the Head (1867) 10141,015
- 34: Seventh-Day Adventist View of Alcohol and Tobacco (1870) 10161,017
- 35: International Sanitary Conference to Establish Quarantine and to Study Epidemics (1874) 10191,020
- 36: Military Field Hospitals and Amputations (1887) 10221,023
- 37: Emil Kraepelin Characterizes Psychoses (1887) 10241,025
- 38: Florence Nightingale’s Advice to Nurses (1888) 10271,028
- 39: South African Mountains as Health Resorts for Tuberculosis (1888) 10301,031
- 40: Sanitation in India (1891) 10321,033
- 41: Asiatic Cholera in India Since Antiquity (1892) 10341,035
- 42: Worldwide Cholera in the Mid-19th Century(1892) 10361,037
- 43: On Wine Drinking and Its Terrible Consequences (1893) 10381,039
- 44: Trembling Mountain (A TB Education Tract) (1895) 10411,042
- 45: Anesthesia in the 19th Century (1895) 10431,044
- 46: Scottish Foundations of Modern Surgery (1895) 10461,047
- 47: Charaka Samhita: Ancient Indian Medical System (1896) 10491,050
- 48: Letters from a Missionary Nurse in East Africa (1896) 10521,053
- 49: Medical Testimony against the Use of Tobacco (1896) 10541,055
- 50: Hot Water in Surgery (1896) 10561,057
- 51: Osler’s Medical Textbook and Typhus (1898) 10581,059
- 52: Digitalis (or Foxglove) Illustration (1900) 10611,062
- 53: Causes of Summer Diarrhea, A Major Killer of Infants (1902) 10631,064
- 54: Developing Dementia from Syphilis (1902) 10651,066
- 55: Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906) 10671,068
- 56: Clifford Beers: The Horrors of MentalInstitutions (1906) 10691,070
- 57: R. M. O’Reilly: Yellow Fever Commission Report (1906) 10721,073
- 58: Why Brewers Think Prohibition Is Bad (1908) 10751,076
- 59: The Flexner Report on Medical Education(1910) 10771,078
- 60: Medical Education of Women in Early-20th-Century North America (1910) 10801,081
- 61: Eugen Bleuler: Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism (1912) 10821,083
- 62: International Opium Convention at the Hague (1912) 10841,085
- 63: Upton Sinclair: Satire of Health Remedies (1912) 10881,089
- 64: Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914) 10911,092
- 65: Ruth Fielding: Red Cross Nurse in France inWWI (1918) 10931,094
- 66: Materia Medica for Nurses: Drugs Used for the Effect on the Blood (1920) 10961,097
- 67: Sigmund Freud: On Psychoanalysis (1920) 10991,100
- 68: Margaret Sanger: Strain of Children on Working Mothers (1922) 11021,103
- 69: Care and Setting of Fractures in Ancient Egypt, with Commentary (1930) 11051,106
- 70: Diseases in Antiquity Based on X-rays of Mummies (1931) 11091,110
- 71: Eduard Pernkopf: Drawing of Head (1943) 11111,112
- 72: Lillian Dunlap: A Nurse’s Experience in the Philippines (1944) 11121,113
- 73: Karl MacMillan: Medical Diary from Burma and China in WWII (1945) 11141,115
- 74: Need for More Primary Practitioners (1994) 11171,118
- 75: Measles Eradication Recommendations from a Global Meeting (1996) 11201,121
- 76: Evidence for Climate Change (2007) 11231,124
- 77: Tuning in to Secure Food (2011) 11271,128
- 78: WHO: Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic (2015) 11301,131
- 79: WHO: Recommendations for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity (2017) 11331,134
- About the Editor and Contributors 11371,138
- Index 11391,140