Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"History Of Medicine"”.
-
Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… thesis is a contribution to the patient-centred history of medicine. It takes the historical agenda established by Dorothy and Roy Porter in their work on the Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to …
-
The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s
This thesis adopts a social history of medicine approach to explore the contradictions surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Influenced by a combination of healthcare discourses and …
-
Beyond opioid regulation: Why a social and cultural analysis of pain in America is a prerequisite for ethical evidence-based pain policy
… reasons for the widespread undertreatment of pain in the United States, and to prescribe evidence-based policy recommendations for improving culture and practice as to the treatment of pain. Though the American problems in treating pain have, over the last three decades, produced an …
-
Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century
… related to the body natural and the body politic of the English monarchs, particularly in newspapers and other forms of print culture, changed between 1688 and 1789. It argues that by examining the depth and type of reportage on royal health and the sovereign's body, coupled with Parliament's …
-
A software toolkit for acoustic respiratory analysis
Millions of Americans suffer from pulmonary diseases. According to recent statistics, approximately 17 million people suffer from asthma, 16.4 million from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 12 million from sleep apnea, and 1.3 million from pneumonia - not to mention the prevalence of many …
-
Bodies of Knowledge: The Influence of Slaves on the Antebellum Medical Community
The influence of slaves on the south is well documented in areas such as agriculture, music, diet, religion and language. This thesis extends the list to include medicine. It also suggests that the importance of cultural transfer to America from places other than Europe has been overlooked in the …
-
A survey of the information seeking behaviour of the dental faculty lecturers and students at the University of the Western Cape's Oral Health Centre Library, in Mitchell's Plain
This mini-thesis offers up to date information on issues relating to the information seeking behaviour of the dental faculty lecturers and students at the University of the Western Cape’s Oral Health Centre library. The thesis argues that dental libraries with particular reference to the South …
-
Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
“Medical Modernity: Rethinking the Health Work of Filipina Women Under Spanish and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1870-1948,” is a history of colonial medicine from the perspective of women who had a range of health encounters with colonial officials. It makes three claims. First, I argue that modern medicine …
-
Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910
This thesis is a contribution to the social history of medicine and to urban history. It attempts to examine the impact of public health reform on Cape Town society between 1880 and 1910. Accepting the argument that the control of disease is one of the means by which a dominant establishment may …
-
Clinical Evaluation of RenografinR76% as a Contrast Medium in Urography
One milestone in the history of medicine was the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895. This led to the examination of the human body by an indirect method. It was soon learned that internal organs which were diseased could cast an abnormal shadow on an x-ray film. It was further …
-
“Most of All, I Wanted My Life to Count for Something:” Toward Black Feminist Theorization in Histories of California Medicine and Medical Education, 1858 to 1942
<p>This dissertation explores the histories of California’s earliest Black women physicians, Ruth J. Temple (1892–1984) and Edna L. Griffin (1905–1992), within the broader landscape of medicine and medical education in the United States from 1858 to 1942. By foregrounding the intellectual …
-
Portraits of patients and sufferers in Britain, c. 1660-c. 1850
Portraits of sufferers and patients in the long eighteenth century have been understudied – especially by comparison with portraits of doctors and other visual imagery that supposedly illuminates long eighteenth-century medical history. Yet these portraits – and the art historical methods used to …
-
Graphic medicine exhibited: public engagement with comics in curatorial practice and visitor experience since 2010.
This study examines the recent curation of graphic medicine to increase knowledge of how comics are displayed and engaged with by public audiences. In the last decade, graphic medicine has gradually become more widespread with yearly conferences, interest from major publishers, and more critical …
-
The System of Lazzaretti in the Early Modern Mediterranean
This dissertation examines the history of lazzaretti - quarantine centres - in the early modern Mediterranean. Merchants, travellers, sailors and goods were quarantined and disinfected inside vast complexes built in port cities and trading posts on the most trafficked trade routes of the Republic …
-
Shedding Light On General Anesthesia: Uncovering The Molecular Mechanisms For Propofol And Volatile Anesthetics
… anesthetics have played a pivotal role in the history of medicine. Despite accounts of their use within the earliest of human records, our understanding of anesthetic mechanisms remains unclear. Understanding these molecular mechanisms would be a significant advance toward enhanced drug design …
-
Animal madness : a natural history of disorder
… in the late 19 th century, changing conceptions of relatedness between people and other animals -- and animals' assumed capacities for, or susceptibilities to, mental or emotional distress-- were influenced by debates over what it meant to be both human and sane in Britain and the United States. …
-
AMBIGUOUS BODIES: GENDER NON-CONFORMITY AND BODILY TRANSFORMATION IN EARLY MODERN ITALIAN ART
This dissertation examines images of ambiguously gendered human bodies in early modern Italian art (1600-1750). Specifically, it explores how artists rendered bodies that underwent a physical change, transforming from conforming men and women into ambiguous or gender-fluid entities. However, the …
-
Spatial and temporal structure of typhoid fever in Washington, D.C., 1895-1909: a geographic information systems exploration of urban health concerns
The period between 1880 and 1920 was one of the most dynamic in the history of medicine. Morbidity and mortality rates for infectious diseases dropped quickly. Concurrently, miasmatic theory gave way to germ theory. Many of these dynamic changes occurred in the urban centers of North America, which …
-
The embodiment and enactment of shen 神 in the Huangdi neijing 《黃帝內經》 by contemporary healers (yi 醫)
The modern history of medicine in China is disposed to position Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a feudal tradition if not an afterthought. If the republicans of modern China had their way, Traditional Chinese Medicine would have been relegated to the various curios in museums (Hsu 2008; Lei …
-
Evolution of natural medicine and biomedicine and their future roles in health care
This thesis investigates whether the natural medicine and biomedicine professions could cooperate for the benefit of patients within an integrated medical model. The investigation contains a substantive narrative and historical overview of the evolution of medicine. This provides a background to …
Page 1 of 4