Sources in the history of medicine : the impact of disease and trauma

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Sources in the history of medicine : the impact of disease and trauma

edited by Robin L. Anderson

Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2007

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For courses in the history of medicine. This reader gives students in a history of medicine class, or the general reading public, a broad selection of readings about the many ways that disease and trauma have affected human populations over time. It draws from both primary and secondary sources to give a dual perspective of a) what was written at the time of various events, and b) what modern scholars have been able to ascertain from historical evidence. It has a broad scope both in time and space, covering materials from earliest Man to contemporary bioethical problems, and contains materials from India, China, Latin America, and the Muslim worlds as well as Europe and the United States. Rather than simply looking at great medical discoveries, it is purposely focused on how trauma and disease have been daily companions of human existence. It fills a serious void in teaching materials in the history of medicine by taking a world perspective, using a combination of primary and secondary sources, covering a huge time span and putting emphasis on the problems created by medical progress, and most importantly, focusing on the effect that medical practices have had on ordinary people throughout history.

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Chapter 1 Paleopathology and Primitive Medicine Introduction Timeline Dettwyler: Can Paleopathology Provide Evidence for `Compassion'? Rifkinson-Mann: Cranial Surgery in Ancient Peru Garn: What Did Our Ancestors Eat? Micozzi: Disease in Antiquity: the Case of Cancer Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 2 The Middle East in Antiquity Introduction Timeline The Holy Bible The Bible: On Leprosy: Exodus 4: 6-8 Leviticus 13: 2-3, 45-46 Leviticus 14: 1-9 2 Kings 7:3-4 2 Chronicles 26:20-21 Matthew 8: 1-4 Edwin Smith Papyrus: Case 7: "A gaping wound in the head", not treatable Case 21: "A split in the temporal bone", contendable Case 40: "A wound in the breast", treatable Ebers Papyrus: Remedies for common complaints Remedy to clear out the body and to get rid of the excrement in the body of a person Remedy to stop the diarrhea Another remedy to drive out indigestion out of the body Remedy to drive out the pain in the head To prevent burn wounds and an incantation for burns Remedy to allay itching Marr: An Epidemiological Analysis of the Ten Plagues of Egypt Spiegel: Babylonian Medicine, Managed Care, Codex Hammurabi, ca. 1700 Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 3 China and India in Antiquity Introduction Timeline Sushruta Samhita selections Manyam: Epilepsy in Ancient India Lai: History of Epilepsy in Chinese Traditional Medicine Veith: Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine Zhang: Medicine is a Humane Art Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 4 Greece Introduction Timeline Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War: The Second Book Hippocrates: On the Sacred Disease : Case histories from Of the Epidemics Santos: Chest Trauma During the Battle of Troy, Ancient Warfare and Chest Trauma Marketos: Parallels Between Aesclepian and Hippocratic Medicine on the Island of Kos Appelboom: Sport and Medicine in Ancient Greece Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 5 Rome and Byzantium Introduction Timeline Soranus: Gynecology, Book 1 Who are the best midwives? Whether conception is healthy What are the signs whether the fetus is male or female? What is the best time for fruitful intercourse? How to recognize the newborn that is worth rearing Galen: Galen on Food and Diet Jellinke: Drinkers and Alcoholics in Ancient Rome Scarborough: Roman Medicine and the Legions: a Reconsideration Diamandopoulou-Drummond: Four Different Ways of Philanthropic Aid to the Blind in Medieval Eastern Christendom Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended readings Chapter 6 Europe, 500-1500 Introduction Timeline Dame Trotula: Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine Brody: Disease of the Soul: leprosy in Medieval Literature Judd and Roberts: Fracture Trauma in a Medieval British Farming Village de Chauliac: The Great Surgery Wheelis: Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa Clynn: The Black Death Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 7 Medicine in the Muslim World and the Americas, 700-1500 Introduction Timeline Ibn Sina: The Canon on Medicine Rosner: Dentistry in the Bible, Talmud and Writings of Moses Maimonides Dols: Insanity and its Treatment in Islamic Society Irving: The Maya's Own Words Roys: The Books of Chilam Balam of Chumayel Leon-Portilla: The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico Harvey: Public Health in Aztec Society Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 8 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: Technical and Theoretical Change Introduction Timeline Faria: Forging of the Renaissance Physician da Vinci and Vesalius: Comparative Drawings Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals Pare: The Apoligie and Treatise Jenner: An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae...Known by the Name of Cow Pox Walton, Fineman, and Walton: Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man? A Renaissance Perspective on the Biological Basis for Female Inferiority Key Tems Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 9 Europe, 1500-1800: Health, Disease, Trauma, and Society Introduction Timeline Ballard: A Midwife's Tale Moliere: L'Amour Medecin (Love's the Best Doctor), Act II Cuppage: Scurvy's Conquest and Sailors' Health Thwaites, Taviner, and Gant: The English Sweating Sickness, 1485-1551 Matossian: Poisons of the Past Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 10 The Nineteenth Century: Development and Spread of Western Medicine Introduction Timeline Nightingale: Notes on Nursing: What It is, and What It Is Not Illo: Pasteur and Rabies, an Interview of 1882 Freemon: The Medical Challenge of Military Operations in the Mississippi Valley During the American Civil War Dunlop: Doctors of the American Frontier Ramasubban: Imperial Health in British India, 1857-1900 Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 11 The Nineteenth Century: Dramatic Change for Societies and Individuals Introduction Timeline Chadwick: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain Anderson: Public Health and Public Healthiness in Sao Paulo, 1876-1893 McWilliam: Some Account of the Yellow Fever Epidemy by Which Brazil Was Invaded in the Latter Part of the Year 1849 Legan: Hydropathy, or the Water Cure Stea and Fried: Remedies for Society's Debilities - Medicines for Neurasthenia in Victorian America Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 12 The Twentieth Century: Constant Advance, Constant Challenge Introduction Timeline Rosenberg: The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System Simmons: Doctors and Discoveries: Willem J. Kolff Reverby: Interview with Four Survivors, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Study, 1973 Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law #10 Spock: Baby and Child Care Evans and Sasser: Doc: Platoon Medic Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 13 20th Century - New Enemies, Old Nemeses Introduction Timeline Knopf: Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and How to Combat It Fincher: America's Rendevous with the Spanish Lady Black: In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History Natsios: Famine and Totalitarian Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century Chimwaza and Watkins: Giving Care to People with Symptoms of AIDS in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Chapter 14 A Brave New Century - Dilemmas in Twenty-First- Century Medicine Introduction Timeline Charo: Cloning - Ethics and Public Policy Stern: Prospect of Domestic Bioterrorism Steinhauser: In Search of a Good Death Lappe: Breakout: The Evolving Threat of Drug-Resistant Disease Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings Glossary

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