検索キーワード： 歴史・解説

The kidney is an extraordinary organin many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human bodys delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to be and to move in the world...

Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. The story of our medical triumphs reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, but the journey was far from smooth. It is a tale replete with dramatic episodes as spellbinding as any blockbuster Hollywood movie. In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles.

Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences, including the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995, treating the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication.

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.  

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children. Their efforts, "eugenics," characterize a movement that over the last century swept across the world—from the US to Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, and beyond—in the form of marriage restrictions, asylum detention, and sterilization campaigns affected millions. German physicians and scientists adopted and then heightened these eugenics practices beginning in 1939.

In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, celebrated medievalist Dorsey Armstrong shares the fascinating new story of this old pandemic—revealed by dedicated researchers working with 21st-century technologies and a knowledge of language and history that now provide input from all geographic areas of the medieval world. In seven engaging lectures, Professor Armstrong corrects explanations of the pandemic that are now known to be inaccurate and offers a more robust description of plague biology than has ever been known.

Verken de geschiedenis van de psychiatrie en zie hoe sociaal stigma onze kijk op mentale gezondheid blijvend vormt. Deze invoelende psychologische reis biedt waardevolle inzichten voor wie complexe menselijke kwetsbaarheid beter wil doorgronden. Het is de perfecte audio-ervaring voor een moment...

Un'isteria di massa travolgente e danze senza fine creano un mistero storico carico di fascino e tensione palpabile. Perfetto per arricchire i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani con curiosità intellettuale, questo saggio ti catapulta nella Strasburgo del sedicesimo secolo. Tra vicoli affollati e paure...

Un nemico invisibile uccise più della Prima guerra mondiale, eppure questa devastante pandemia globale fu dimenticata. Ideale per accompagnare i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani con un ascolto educativo e profondo, questa narrazione ti immerge in un'Europa del 1918 ormai stremata, dove sistemi...

Mergulhe na história da medicina e entenda como uma pandemia global superou as mortes da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Perfeito para sua jornada de aprendizado durante o trajeto diário, este relato imersivo e intenso transporta você para um mundo exausto por conflitos bélicos. Acompanhe a rápida...

Oltrepassa lo stigma sociale: vivi l'evoluzione della cura, dalle ombre dei manicomi alla psicologia moderna. Ideale per accompagnare i tuoi momenti di profonda riflessione o i tragitti quotidiani, questo saggio audio ricostruisce il complesso rapporto tra società e sofferenza psichica...

A história da psiquiatria mostra como os manicômios moldaram nossa compreensão moderna sobre a mente e o sofrimento. Ideal para ouvir no trajeto diário ou durante uma caminhada reflexiva, esta narrativa visceral mapeia o impacto profundo da exclusão social. Trata-se de um mergulho empático...

Una letal histeria colectiva obligó a decenas a bailar sin descanso, desatando un misterio histórico sin precedentes. Sumérgete en las inquietantes calles europeas del siglo dieciséis para desentrañar un enigma médico que aún hoy desconcierta a los investigadores. Es el relato inmersivo...

Entiende la crisis de 1918, una pandemia histórica que eclipsó la devastación militar mundial. Perfecta para aprender en tu trayecto diario, esta narración cautivadora te transporta a las trincheras para revelar cómo el conflicto armado incubó una emergencia global. Sumérgete en un relato...

十四世紀のユーラシアを呑み込んだ未曾有の黒死病が、いかにして絶対的な権力構造を暴き、不可逆的な社会変動を引き起こしたのかを鮮烈に解き明かす歴史ノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜のひととき...

La mayor revolución de la salud pública transformó el terror a las epidemias en un triunfo de la inmunología moderna. Para quienes buscan saciar su curiosidad científica mientras viajan al trabajo, esta fascinante historia de supervivencia humana ofrece una mirada rigurosa a cómo...

Viaja a la mayor revolución científica de la medicina para descubrir cómo la humanidad venció a un enemigo invisible. Ideal para saciar tu curiosidad durante los trayectos diarios, este relato histórico transformará tu visión del mundo. Olvida los mitos de miasmas o castigos divinos...

Viaja desde las sombras del encierro asilar hasta la luz de la psicología moderna para comprender el sufrimiento humano. Si buscas respuestas para acompañar a un ser querido o deseas reflexionar sobre la mente, este relato histórico empático desafía todo lo que creías saber sobre la locura...

形を変えて増殖する細胞の進化という壮大な謎に迫り、未知なる病への恐怖を確かな知識と安らぎへと変える画期的な医療ノンフィクションです。夜の静寂の中で一人思いを巡らせる時や、通勤の喧騒から離れて心を落ち...