A Dose of Medical History

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A Dose of Medical History

Created by Elissa - Updated on June 16th 2017

Dust off your leeches and balance your humors with this list of medicine through history.

For the good of mankind? : the shameful history of human medical experimentation / Vicki Oransky Wittenstein.

Wittenstein, Vicki O., 1954-

From the Publisher

Discusses the several medical advances that were achieved through unethical medical experimentation on humans.

Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / by Harriet A. Washington.

Washington, Harriet A.

From the Publisher

The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused black Americans to view researchers--and indeed the whole medical establishment--with such deep...

1 out of 10 doctors recommends : drinking urine, eating worms, and other weird cures, cases, and research from the annals of medicine / H. Eric Bender, M.D., Murdoc Khaleghi, M.D., and Bobby Singh, M.D.

Bender, H. Eric, author.

From the Publisher

Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through the ages.

The doctor wore petticoats : women physicians of the old West / Chris Enss.

Enss, Chris, 1961-

From the Publisher

Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped write the history of the West.

The medical book : from witch doctors to robot surgeons : 250 milestones in the history of medicine / Clifford A. Pickover.

Pickover, Clifford A.

From the Publisher

Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses historical milestones with unexpected and intriguing topics.

Strange medicine : a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages / Nathan Belofsky.

Belofsky, Nathan.

From the Publisher

Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behaviour to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors, scientists, and dreamers who inadvertently turned the clock of medicine backward.

Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine / Erika Janik.

Janik, Erika.

From the Publisher

A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures and other Alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America.

Frontier doctors The History Channel ; A&E Television Networks.

From the Publisher

In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, America's uncharted western lands were a place of both isolation and primitive conditions. At each step in the march westward, new settlers fought cunning and ubiquitous enemies in the form of deadly diseases and rampant epidemics. Where battle wounds, poor sanitation, and deadly animals were common, appropriate medical care was not. To survive in these harrowing conditions, the settlers had to find a doctor--or someone calling him or...

Antique medical instruments / C. Keith Wilbur.

Wilbur, C. Keith, 1923-

From the Publisher

Family physician and artist Dr. C. Keith Wilber presents a hand-illustrated tour of medical history via the doctors' instruments. This study chronicles the evolution of a wide range of medical instruments from the mid-1700s through current usage.

Bleeding blue and gray : the untold story of Civil War medicine / Ira M. Rutkow.

Rutkow, Ira M.

From the Publisher

Rutkow argues that it is impossible to grasp the harsh realities of the Civil War without an awareness of the state of American medicine at the time. From the soldiers who endured the ravages of combat to the government officials who directed the war machine, from the good Samaritans who organized aid commissions to the nurses who cared for the wounded, Bleeding Blue and Gray presents a story of suffering, politics, character, and, ultimately, healing.

The art of medicine : over 2,000 years of images and imagination / Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton ; foreword by Antony Gormley.

Anderson, Julie, 1965-

From the Publisher

The Art of Medicine offers a unique gallery of rarely seen paintings, artifacts, drawings, prints, and extracts from manuscripts and manuals to provide a fascinating visual insight into our knowledge of the human body and mind, and how both have been treated with medicine.