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Anxiety, the latest volume in the Vitamins and Hormones series
first published in 1943, and the longest-running serial published
by Academic Press, provides up-to-date information on the roles
that hormones and other factors play in anxiety and stress. Each
volume focuses on a single molecule or disease that is related to
vitamins or hormones, with the topic broadly interpreted to include
related substances, such as transmitters, cytokines, growth
factors, and others thoroughly reviewed.
Headache: Through the Centuries illuminates the history of
headaches with a particular interest in how the disorder has been
understood and treated since the earliest recorded accounts, dating
from around 4000 BC. Different types of headache were being
recognized as early as the 2nd century AD. Over the years, though,
the classification of types of headache has changed so that
headache patterns described in the past are often difficult to
relate to present-day types of headache. Since that time, a great
deal of material on the topic has become available, the full gamut
of manifestations of the disorder has been described, and
considerable insight into its mechanisms has been obtained, though
no completely satisfactory explanation of the disorder has yet
become available. Providing an extensive history and the
development of our understanding of headache over the course of six
millennia, Headache: Through the Centuries is thought-provoking and
relevant reading for neurologists, medical historians, and anyone
interested in headaches.
Written by an immunologist, this book traces the concept of
immunity from ancient times up to the present day, examining how
changing concepts and technologies have affected the course of the
science. It shows how the personalities of scientists and even
political and social factors influenced both theory and practice in
the field. With fascinating stories of scientific disputes and
shifting scientific trends, each chapter examines an important
facet of this discipline that has been so central to the
development of modern biomedicine. With its biographical dictionary
of important scientists and its lists of significant discoveries
and books, this volume will provide the most complete historical
reference in the field.
Written in an elegant style by long-time practicing
immunologist
Discusses the changing theories and technologies that guided the
field
Tells of the exciting disputes among prominent scientists
Lists all the important discoveries and books in the field
Explains in detail the many Nobel prize-winning contributions of
immunologists"
Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of
British Physiology. His name is usually associated with his ???Law
of the Heart, ??? but his discovery of secretin (the first hormone
whose mode of action was explained) and his work on capillaries
were more important contributions. He coined the word 'hormone' one
hundred years ago. His analysis of capillary function demonstrated
that equal and opposite forces move across the capillary wall--an
outward (hydrostatic) force and an inward (osmotic) force derived
from plasma proteins.
Starling??'s contributions include:
*Developing the "Frank-Starling Law of the Heart," presented in
1915 and modified in 1919.
*The Starling equation, describing fluid shifts in the body (1896)
*The discovery of secretin, the first hormone, with Bayliss (1902)
and the introduction of the concept of hormones (1905).
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The Oregon State Insane Asylum was opened in Salem on October 23,
1883, and is one of the oldest continuously operated mental
hospitals on the West Coast. In 1913, the name was changed to the
Oregon State Hospital (OSH). The history of OSH parallels the
development and growth in psychiatric knowledge throughout the
United States. Oregon was active in the field of electroshock
treatments, lobotomies, and eugenics. At one point, in 1959, there
were more than 3,600 patients living on the campus. The
Oscar-winning movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed
inside the hospital in 1972. In 2008, the entire campus was added
to the National Register of Historic Places, and the state began a
$360-million restoration project to bring the hospital to modern
standards. The story of OSH is one of intrigue, scandal, recovery,
and hope.
First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution
to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as
a recollection of the experiences and knowledge of Sir Arthur
Newsholme, the book covers a period in which phenomenal progress
was made.
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston
Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of
addiction-a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply
misunderstood despite having touched countless lives-by an
addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and
himself "Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge is the best-written and most
incisive book I've read on the history of addiction. In the midst
of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed
America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of
all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical
narrative with memoir that doesn't self-aggrandize; the result is a
full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use
disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing
as it is enjoyable to read." -Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Even
after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy
still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best
way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik
Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and
alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon
that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding-let
alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh
from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own
addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to
make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for
generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that
the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a
centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and
control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including
well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich,
sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also
literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge
illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has
persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be
human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people
who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the
ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists,
researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who
have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the
treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for
many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning
with our history of addiction, he argues-our successes and our
failures-can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain
threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history
of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and
a clinician's urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and
compassionate view of one of society's most intractable challenges.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Food and Health in Early
Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of
the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of
the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving
foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to
stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed
dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the
late-15th century to the early-19th; it is also the first to trace
the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this
advice. David Gentilcore offers a doctor's-eye view of changing
food and dietary fashions: from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland
to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the
New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout
the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and
horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed
sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works.
The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter
bibliographies with web links included to further aid study. Food
and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to
the relationship between food, health and medicine for history
students and scholars alike.
This volume highlights the people and scientific developments in
military medicine through the ages, concentrating on medical
advances that changed both warfare and societies at home. Thanks to
advances in field medicine and improved mobility and efficiency of
medical units, the death rate of soldiers injured during battle has
dramatically declined in the last 100 years. Nowadays, with forward
medical stations operating close to battle lines and medical
transports (ground and air) at hand, injured soldiers survive their
battle wounds. Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st
Century provides expert coverage of the key role medical advances
and practices have played in the evolution of warfare, and how many
of those advances and practices have been put to work saving and
improving civilian lives as well. Military Medicine surveys the
development of military medicine from its prehistoric origins
through modern threats and practice. That coverage is followed by
over 200 of alphabetically organized entries with special emphasis
placed on those areas with the most dramatic applications to
civilian medicine, including triage and trauma management,
treatment for infections, emergency surgical procedures, and more.
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