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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
Allan V. Horwitz
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era traces the extensive array of answers that various groups have provided to questions ...
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Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone
This title marks the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of Vesalius. The authors translated Latin chapters of the Fabrica dedicated to the brain, a ...
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Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine On Screen
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Cinema, MD argues that within cinema there is a history of medicine—one version in the many different histories of medicine. How did filmmakers write a history of medicine? ...
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Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary Edition (2 ed.)
Gordon M. Shepherd
The neuron doctrine, first formulated in 1891, states that the brain is constructed of individual neurons, organized into functioning circuits that mediate behavior. It is the fundamental ...
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Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the Eponym
Olivier Walusinski
An exhaustive biography of French neuropsychiatrist Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904) has never been undertaken. Gilles de la Tourette worked closely with the nineteenth-century ...
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Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession
T.A. Cavanaugh
Hippocrates’ Oath and Asclepius’ Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession—a practice incorporating an internal, ...
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The History of a Genetic Disease: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or Meryon's Disease (2 ed.)
Alan E. H. Emery and Marcia L. H. Emery
This resource traces the history of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in detail along with a commentary of Edward Meryon's research, which has led to our current understanding of the disease, ...
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The History of Radiology
Adrian M. K. Thomas and Arpan K. Banerjee
Written by two radiologists who have a passion for the history of their field, The History of Radiology is a beautifully illustrated review of the remarkable developments within radiology ...
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The History of the World Federation of Neurology: The First 50 Years
Johan A. Aarli
This resource covers the history of the WFN from its founding in Brussels in 1957 to the present day. Written by a former President and long-standing officer of the WFN, The History of the ...
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Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
James Trent
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention—all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history ...
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Landmark Papers in Neurosurgery (2 ed.)
Reuben D. Johnson and Alexander L. Green (eds)
Evidence-based medicine is a concept that has come to the fore in the past few years. Clinicians are increasingly encouraged to practise patient management based on available evidence in ...
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Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health
Graham Thornicroft, George Szmukler, Kim T Mueser, and Robert E. Drake (eds)
The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in this field.
The Painted Mind: Behavioral Science Reflected in Great Paintings
Alfonso Troisi
The scientific focus of this book is on the human mind and behavior viewed from an evolutionary perspective. The author is a clinical psychiatrist but his research background ranges from ...
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Patients as Art: Forty Thousand Years of Medical History in Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture
Philip A. Mackowiak
Patients as Art: Forty Thousand Years of Medical History in Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture traces the history of medicine through works of art stretching from the ...
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The Rhetoric of Medicine: Lessons on Professionalism from Ancient Greece
Nigel Nicholson and Nathan Selden
The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar problems that confronted physicians in ancient Greece. This ...
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A Short History of Medical Genetics
Peter S. Harper
This resource presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep ...
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2030 - The Future of Medicine: Avoiding a Medical Meltdown
Richard Barker
This resource tackles questions that relate to the way medicine will be practised in the future, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ...
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A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
Craig A. Miller
Born in 1908 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Michael DeBakey is the eldest of six children of Lebanese immigrants. He enjoys conspicuous academic success as a youth and then medical school, ...
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William Richard Gowers 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain
Ann Scott, Mervyn Eadie, and Andrew Lees
Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century. Co-authored by one of Dr Gowers' descendents and two leading neurologists, this book ...
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