Medicine

Medicine is the art, science, and practice of caring for a patient and managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment or palliation of their injury or disease. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.Medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times, during most of …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

towards a BSc in business management. Although Medicine had been her first choice, Papa had given Nneora conclusion that Udonwa Ilechukwu would study medicine at the University of Nigeria. Not until now did


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

swallowed down oxy from suburban New Jersey mirrored medicine cabinets. Last I heard, he got mummify your memories in soft cotton wraps from my medicine cabinet. Slather them with witchy salve; perfume


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

CANADAMcGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series editors: J.T.H. Connor Dyck This series presents books in the history of medicine, health studies, and social policy, exploring between the institutions, ideas, and practices of medicine and those of society as a whole. To begin to understand impact through its support of the history of medicine and the education of health- care professionals history of medicine across Canada, is a primary sponsor of many of the country’s history of medicine and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

’s/aMs HEaltHCarE studiEs in tHE History of MEdiCinE, HEaltH, and soCiEty Series editors: J.T.H. Connor Dyck This series presents books in the history of medicine, health studies, and social policy, ex- ploring between the institutions, ideas, and practices of medicine and those of society as a whole. To begin to impact through its support of the history of medicine and the education of healthcare pro- fessionals history of medicine across Canada, is a primary sponsor of many of the country’s history of medicine and nursing


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

diagnosed with a brain tumour. There was little that medicine of the time could do to treat her condition and nickelodeon, the amusement park, and Wild West and medicine shows, but the world’s fairs of the late nine-


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Britain’s imperial world. The evolution of British pharmacopoeias and the professionalization of medicine saw developments including a transition from Galenic principles to germ theory, and a shift from

historical inquiry, including the histories of medicine, pharmacy, consumption, trade, law, social policy Clare Griffin 5 Drugging France Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century Sara E. Black 6 Medicines in Modern India Nandini Bhattacharya 8 Art, Medicine, and Femininity Visualising the Morphine Addict Londinensis, December 1618. Source: Moments in Medicine, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, https://visit European pharma- copoeia), within a system of medicine (the Western pharmacopoeia), or those used for


DDN: Dundurn Press · 18 June 2024 English

Meet the brilliant mavericks who invented the future of medicine and saved the lives of millions.The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical invention, from the development of anesthesia and safe eventually recognized.The same kind of energy that drove van Gogh or the Beatles can manifest in medicine as inventiveness and the creation of new medical devices. The field may be very different from what

D R . K I E R A N M U R P H Y Medicine and the Joy of Creativity The E S S E N C E of I N V E N intentionally left blankD R . K I E R A N M U R P H Y Medicine and the Joy of Creativity The E S S E N C E Publication Title: The essence of invention : medicine and the joy of creativity / Dr. Kieran Murphy (EPUB) | ISBN 9781459754041 (PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Medicine—History. | LCSH: Medical innovations—History. come from. You might be a student hoping to enter medicine, biomedical engineering, or the applied sciences


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right …

attended Cambridge University before studying medicine at the university in Leiden. In Holland, Jaucourt received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1730, he never practiced medicine, choosing instead to enter


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …

pro- duction and reproduction, pastoral farming, medicine, subsis- tence, water, and for spiritual or religious


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of …

Association, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Canadian Communication Association, and the socio-economic spectrum, including mari- time labour, medicine, or academia, using self-designated job titles


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