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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

Allan V. Horwitz

Print Publication Year:: Dec 2019

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2019

eISBN:: 9780190907891

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190907860.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: Psychiatry, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190907860

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 ... More

Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience

Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone

Print Publication Year:: Apr 2015

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Jun 2015

eISBN:: 9780190209766

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199383832.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Qualified, early specialism training

Specialty:: Clinical Medicine, Neurology, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780199383832

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 ... More

Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine On Screen

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks

Print Publication Year:: Mar 2020

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Mar 2020

eISBN:: 9780190099879

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190685799.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190685799

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? ... More

Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820: The Unpublished Work of Jeremiah Barker, a Rural Physician in New England

Richard J. Kahn

Print Publication Year:: Aug 2020

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Jul 2020

eISBN:: 9780190053284

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190053253.001.0001

Career:: Researcher

Specialty:: History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190053253

This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, ... More

Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary Edition (2 ed.)

Gordon M. Shepherd

Print Publication Year:: Oct 2015

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2015

eISBN:: 9780190268480

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190259389.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Qualified, specialist

Specialty:: Clinical Medicine, Neurology, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190259389

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 ... More

Georges Gilles de la Tourette: Beyond the Eponym

Olivier Walusinski

Print Publication Year:: Oct 2018

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2018

eISBN:: 9780190636067

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190636036.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: History of Medicine, Neuroscience, History of Neuroscience, Clinical Medicine, Neurology

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190636036

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 ... More

Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession

T.A. Cavanaugh

Print Publication Year:: Nov 2017

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2017

eISBN:: 9780190673703

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190673673.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: Medical Ethics, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190673673

Hippocrates’ Oath and Asclepius’ Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession—a practice incorporating an internal, ... More

The History of the World Federation of Neurology: The First 50 Years

Johan A. Aarli

Print Publication Year:: Apr 2014

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Jul 2014

eISBN:: 9780191781452

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780198713067.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Qualified, late specialism training, Qualified, specialist

Specialty:: Clinical Medicine, Neurology, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780198713067

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 ... More

Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

James Trent

Print Publication Year:: Nov 2016

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Feb 2017

eISBN:: 9780190645878

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199396184.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Qualified, specialist, Researcher, Nurse, Qualified Nurse, Allied Health Professional

Specialty:: Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780199396184

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 ... More

The Painted Mind: Behavioral Science Reflected in Great Paintings

Alfonso Troisi

Print Publication Year:: May 2017

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Jun 2017

eISBN:: 9780190696900

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199393404.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Qualified, specialist

Specialty:: Psychiatry, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780199393404

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 ... More

Patients as Art: Forty Thousand Years of Medical History in Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture

Philip A. Mackowiak

Print Publication Year:: Nov 2018

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2018

eISBN:: 9780190858247

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190858216.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190858216

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 ... More

The Rhetoric of Medicine: Lessons on Professionalism from Ancient Greece

Nigel Nicholson and Nathan Selden

Print Publication Year:: Apr 2019

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Apr 2019

eISBN:: 9780190457518

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190457488.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: History of Medicine, Clinical Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190457488

The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar problems that confronted physicians in ancient Greece. This ... More

Sir Charles Bell: His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy

Michael J Aminoff

Print Publication Year:: Sep 2016

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Sep 2016

eISBN:: 9780190614997

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190614966.001.0001

Career:: Researcher

Specialty:: Clinical Medicine, Neurology, History of Medicine, Neuroscience, History of Neuroscience

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190614966

Charles Bell (1774–1842) was a Scottish anatomist–surgeon whose original ideas on the nervous system have been equated with those of William Harvey on the circulation. He suggested that the ... More

2030 - The Future of Medicine: Avoiding a Medical Meltdown

Richard Barker

Print Publication Year:: Dec 2010

Series:: Other

Published Online:: May 2013

eISBN:: 9780191768651

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199600663.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Undergraduate Doctor, Qualified, specialist, Qualified, late specialism training, Nurse, Qualified Nurse

Specialty:: Public Health and Epidemiology, History of Medicine, Public Health

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780199600663

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 ... More

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

Craig A. Miller

Print Publication Year:: Nov 2019

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2019

eISBN:: 9780190073978

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780190073947.001.0001

Career:: Doctor

Specialty:: Surgery, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780190073947

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, ... More

William Richard Gowers 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain

Ann Scott, Mervyn Eadie, and Andrew Lees

Print Publication Year:: Aug 2012

Series:: Other

Published Online:: Nov 2012

eISBN:: 9780191753527

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199692316.001.0001

Career:: Doctor, Undergraduate Doctor, Qualified, early specialism training

Specialty:: Clinical Medicine, Neurology, History of Medicine

Item type:: book

ISBN:: 9780199692316

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 ... More