A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine11 reviews Michael Kennedy Asklepiad Press, 2004 I'm the author + no problems! + Fine Book + The Return of Humanism in Medicine: Hope for the Future! + The product of a three year research project             Arrowsmith (Signet Classics)39 reviews Sinclair Lewis Signet Classics, 1998 Sinclair Lewis Classic + First-rate fiction + Arrowsmith hits the mark + Must read for anyone who aspires to become something in life! + worth reading             The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity18 reviews Roy Porter W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 My Best Buy this year! + Though Roy is gone, his memory lives on + Simply the Best History of Medicine + The book was definitely worth the price of admission. + Hefty, tries to cover everything, but lacks details             Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine Regina Morantz-Sanchez The University of North Carolina Press, 2000 When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine ...             The Social Transformation of American Medicine11 reviews Paul Starr Basic Books, 1984 Great history of American medicine + The best analysis on american health care + So much information, but with an analysis that makes the point! + Excellent book + Blame it on the AMA             The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine5 reviews Cambridge University Press, 2001 An excellente review of the "History of Medicine" + Good book. + Good additional text to team up with your other medical books + Good Overview, Broad Spectrum + Well written, lavishly illustrated             Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today's Medicine3 reviews John Galbraith Simmons Houghton Mifflin, 2002 Great book on physicians as explorers/inventors! + How today's health practitioners work + A great addition to your reference library I am always on the look out for decent books that can be used to teach students about phenomenal lives and mentors. This book accurately fills that need. Most of the physicians in this book were also researchers before scientific research was even a field. Many of these men (they are mostly men) ...             Doctors: The Biography of Medicine12 reviews Sherwin B. Nuland Vintage, 1995 Good stuff + Worthy + The most readable book on the history of Western medicine. + Doctors + required reading for physicians             Source Book of Medical History Dover Publications, 1960 Original accounts ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to discovery of x-rays: Galen, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Harvey, Parkinson, others. "...a book useful to teacher and student alike. It deserves a place on every historian’s reference shelf." — American Historical Review .             The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants9 reviews Richard Gordon St. Martin's Griffin, 1997 To fall out laughing is the best medicine + Riveting yet discombobulated (literally) text I read this book here in Ceará, a state of Brazil.I'm an agronomist and I like to read books.This book isn't for doctors, but for the general public. If you like to read comic books about doctors and patients, this a good choice.This book is also concise, easy to read and had a cheap price, when I ...             The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC-1800 AD Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, ... Cambridge University Press, 1995 The influence of Greek medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.C. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries. This text is designed to cover the history of Western medicine from Classical Antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes the system of medical ideas that, in large part, went back to the Greeks of the fifth ...             An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine1 review Claude Bernard Dover Publications, 1957 The wonderful world of homeostasis As Bernard puts it: "I think I was the first to urge the belief that animals have really two environments: a milieu extérieur in which the organism is situated, and a milieu intérieur in which the tissue elements live. The living organism does not really exist in the milieu extérieur (the ...             Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945 Thomas Neville Bonner The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 Focusing on the social, intellectual, and political context in which medical education took place, Thomas Neville Bonner offers a detailed analysis of transformations in medical instruction in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States between the Enlightenment and World War II. From a unique comparative perspective, this study considers how divergent approaches to medical ...             The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle (John MacRae Books)10 reviews Eric Lax Henry Holt and Co., 2004 Great addition to the history of medicine + Not a miracle but a product of nature and human effort + An Untold Story You Thought You Knew + The Full Story of Penicillin + Ok, the textbooks need to change!             A Country Doctor (Bantam Classic)2 reviews Sarah Orne Jewett Bantam Classics, 1999 Inspirational + Interesting Perspective This little book gives us insight into the New England culture of the late 1800's and what it was like to grow up as a girl in a small town. Having lived in recent years in the very town of the authoress, I found it authentic in the characterization of the community she described. She portrayed ...             Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age2 reviews Julie M. Fenster Basic Books, 2003 Medical Pioneers who risked everything to save lives. + Fabulous! Washing one's hands was a revolutionary idea back in sick houses in the 1840's...was it really too much trouble to keep one's hands spiffed up while delivering babies? This book explores many medical marvels taken for granted; such as the discovery of the x-ray, and how kidney transplantation ...             The Anatomical Exercises: De Motu Cordis and De Circulatione Sanguinis in English Translation William Harvey Dover Publications, 1995 Fascinating account, long a classic of science, of how Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood came into being — long admired as a model of accurate observation, careful experimentation and notation, and logical deduction. Reproduces the English translation made during Harvey's lifetime.             Medicine and Western Civilization Rutgers University Press, 1996             The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)13 reviews Sherwin B. Nuland W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 The Curse of Character + `Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis' + Well researched and interesting medical story + Detailed Look at a Doctor's Quest to Make other Doctors Wash Their Hands + Ignorance is NOT bliss!             Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show6 reviews Ann Anderson McFarland Publishing Company, 2004 Buy this book! + Hucksters, and Hambones + Read it! + Got this Hambone! + SNAKE OIL...GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YA