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Em 1918, um novo vírus de influenza, até então restrito às aves, passou a se manifestar também em humanos. Um ano mais tarde, o saldo era de pelo menos 100 mil mortos daquela que ficaria conhecida na história como gripe espanhola, marcando o primeiro grande embate entre a ciência e uma pandemia. Em apenas dois anos o vírus matou mais pessoas do que a Aids em todo o mundo ao longo dos 24 anos desde a sua descoberta, e mais pessoas em um ano do que a peste negra ao longo de um século.

In the last half of the twentieth century, Don Thomas discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia—forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest illnesses. His feats were extraordinary, earning him a Nobel Prize, and the cascade of treatments he inspired have reshaped and will continue to reshape the practice of clinical medicine. Yet no one has ever written Thomas’s courageous story.Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum, a member of Thomas’s research team, does so for the first time.

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery. Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young women, the 'Black Angels', who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city's poorest.

If you want to make a living by transitioning into the medical writing field as a freelancer or by working a job, then this book is for you. It doesn’t matter if you have previous experience working in the medical field or not, as this field has a vast array of opportunities.

Auf der ganzen Welt lernen Ärzte und Ärztinnen von echten Krankheiten und Patienten. Sie lernen, wie sich Symptome äußern und wie man sie lindern oder sogar heilen kann. Manche dieser Fälle und Menschen sind so besonders, dass sie in die Geschichte eingehen. Im zweiten Band Rätselhafte Fälle der Medizingeschichte lädt Autor und Arzt Roy Benaroch wieder ein, mit ihm zusammen auf Spurensuche zu gehen. Anhand historischer Quellen zeichnet er das Leben bekannter historischer Persönlichkeiten nach und fahndet nach Hinweisen zu ihren Krankheiten und Symptomen.

**Narrated by Mandy Matney** The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney. Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in...

Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were the ten biblical plagues that famously smote the Egyptians—from the rain of frogs to the deaths of the firstborn—but that is just the start of the story. In The Eleventh Plague, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the ages, from premodern and early-modern plagues, to rabbinic responses to smallpox and cholera, and to the curious practice of "Black Weddings" in which two orphans are married in a cemetery.

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Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one—in this “fascinating, ferocious fusillade against...

Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich's incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians' courage and resilience in the face of evil.

Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania—and the term maniac—in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, renowned psychiatrist David Healy examines how concepts of mental afflictions evolved as scientific breakthroughs established connections between brain function and mental illness. Healy recounts the changing definitions of mania through the centuries, explores the effects of new terminology and growing public awareness of the disease on culture and society, and examines the rise of psychotropic treatments and pharmacological marketing over the past four decades.

Videnskaben har altid eksperimenteret på mennesker, og resultaterne har haft stor betydning for meget af det, vi i dag ved om menneskekroppen og sindet. De fleste steder i verden er der strenge etiske regler for, hvordan videnskabelige forsøg bliver udført. Men sådan har det ikke altid været. I serien EKSPERIMENTER MED MENNESKER dykker vi ned i nogle af historiens mest grusomme menneskeforsøg. Forsøgene revolutionerede videnskaben, men havde frygtelige konsekvenser for de involverede.

Jede Krankheit und jeder Mensch haben das Potential, Medizingeschichte zu schreiben. Seit Hunderten von Jahren ergründen Ärzte und Ärztinnen auf der ganzen Welt die Geheimnisse der Medizin, indem sie sich echte Fälle ansehen. Autor und Arzt Roy Benaroch hat für uns spannende Fälle der Medizingeschichte gesammelt, in denen bekannte Persönlichkeiten der Weltgeschichte als mysteriöser Patient oder Patientin vor uns stehen.

Medical science has made brilliant discoveries over the last century but as any cancer patient can attest, it has yet to conquer, or even fully comprehend, pain. Beginning with his own battle against severe migraines, and citing numerous case studies of his patients, in Why We Hurt Dr. Frank Vertosick explains how pain evolved, and by highlighting the critical functions it serves, he helps us to understand its value.

JAK UPÓR I TROCHĘ SZCZĘŚCIA ZMIENIŁY ŚWIAT Czy wiesz, że: miniaturowy odłamek plastiku w oku pilota RAF-u sprawił, że dziś używamy tego materiału do produkcji sztucznych soczewek; tytanowa komora, która za nic nie dawała usunąć się z kości królika, doprowadziła do powstania implantów dentystycznych; viagrę zawdzięczamy grupie chemików pracujących nad nowym lekiem mającym przynieść ulgę cierpiącym z powodu dusznicy bolesnej; pięć wyjątkowo ciepłych tygodni 1928 roku pomogło Alexandrowi Flemingowi w odkryciu penicyliny.

After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant described bacteria for the first time. Ending Epidemics explains how we came to understand and prevent many of our worst infectious diseases—and double average life expectancy.

Drawing on scholarship in the rhetoric of health and medicine, the health and medical humanities, and related fields, Derkatch offers a nuanced account of how language, belief, behavior, experience, and persuasion collide to produce and promote wellness, one of the most compelling and harmful concepts that govern contemporary Western life.

Notre rapport à la santé a changé. Les traitements se sont diversifiés. Face à un problème de mal-être ou de santé, nous ne savons pas toujours vers qui nous tourner ou qui consulter. Se donner toutes les chances, c'est découvrir les bienfaits des médecines conventionnelles et complémentaires, mais aussi mesurer à quel point notre propre rôle est essentiel. Natacha Calestrémé donne la parole à des médecins et des chercheurs reconnus pour leur expertise scientifique et leur connaissance des pratiques thérapeutiques, et ouvre de nouveaux horizons pour nous aider à aller mieux.

The Battle Against COVID-19 Filipino American Healthcare Workers on the Frontlines of the Pandemic Response is a tribute to all health and essential workers who provide critical services to save lives. These frontliners have risked their lives during this pandemic and sadly, a significant number have succumbed to the deadly virus.

Em Medicina dos horrores, a historiadora Lindsey Fitzharris narra como era o chocante mundo da cirurgia do século XIX, que estava às vésperas de uma profunda transformação. A autora evoca os primeiros anfiteatros de operações—lugares abafados onde os procedimentos eram feitos diante de plateias lotadas—e cirurgiões pioneiros, cujo ofício era saudado não pela precisão, mas pela velocidade e pela força bruta, uma vez que não havia anestesia. Não à toa, os mais célebres cirurgiões da época eram capazes de amputar uma perna em menos de trinta segundos.