Author: Frederick Noël Lawrence PoynterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Contemporary Scientific Background of Lister's Achievement
Author: Frederick Noël Lawrence PoynterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Contemporary Scientific Background of Lister's Achievement
Author: F. N. L. PoynterThe Butchering Art
Author: Lindsey FitzharrisPublisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no place for the squeamish—and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients’ afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn’t have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history. Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Lister’s career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Lister’s contemporaries—some of them brilliant, some outright criminal—and leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers. Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world.
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: Expectations of Life
Author: H.O. LancasterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461210038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Destined to become a classic epidemiological study, EXPECTA- TIONS OF LIFE surveys world mortality, describing and ex- plaining the declines of mortality which have become especi- ally evident in this century.
Public Health Service Publication
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The major achievements of science
Author: A. E. E. McKenziePublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Science and Drama: Contemporary and Creative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Author: Peta J WhitePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030844013
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education. Drawing on a solid basis of research, it offers theoretical backgrounds, showcases rich examples, and provides evidence of improved student learning and engagement. The chapters explore various connections between drama and science, including: students’ ability to engage with science through drama; dramatising STEM; mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science; dramatic play-based outdoor activities; and creating embodied, aesthetic and affective learning experiences. The book illustrates how drama education draws upon contemporary issues and their complexity, intertwining with science education in promoting scientific literacy, creativity, and empathetic understandings needed to interpret and respond to the many challenges of our times. Findings throughout the book demonstrate how lessons learned from drama and science education can remain discrete yet when brought together, contribute to deeper, more engaged and transformative student learning.
Lister Centenary Exhibition at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Author: Wellcome Historical Medical MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description