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Destaques da Biblioteca de História das Ciências e da Saúde

MCLEAN, David. Surgeons of the fleet: the Royal Navy and its medics from trafalgar to Jutland. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010.

 

 

 

With vivid and occasionally eye-watering description, David McLean traces the development of naval medicine from the gory days of Cook and Nelson - when as many as 65% of maritime casualties were due to illness - through to the outbreak of World War I, recounting the advances in surgery, diet and hygiene which allowed Britannia to rule the waves. Surgeons of the Fleet also offers a unique window into the development of public health programs on land, many of which grew out of maritime initiatives. Brimming with original research and colourful storytelling, Surgeons of the Fleet makes an invaluable contribution to the fields of military and imperial history. The chapters embroider themes relating to the age of cook and Nelson, surgeons at Sea in the Early Nineteenth Century, opportunity and adventure, home hospitals, hospitals abroad, minden on the China coast, Baltic and Crimea, modernization (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HARRISON, Mark. The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

 

 

The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. Mark Harrison argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping to sustain the morale of troops and their families, and reducing the wastage of manpower. Effective medical provisions were vital to the continuation of the war in all the major theatres, for both political and operational reasons. The Medical War is divided more or less evenly between an analysis of medicine on the Western Front and selected campaigns in other theatres of the war, principally Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Salonika, East Africa, and the Middle East. It explores preventive medicine and casualty disposal and treatment, attempting to view these not only from the perspective of medical personnel but also from that of commanders, patients, politicians, and the general public. In providing this wide-ranging geographical and thematic coverage of medicine, The Medical War is unique among books on medicine in the First World War. It also differs from existing work in considering the British Army's medical responsibilities for non-British troops and labourers, principally those of the Indian Army and various colonial labour detachments (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOLZ, Rose. The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2012.

 

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World is the first book to chart the origins and evolution of the charity birth control clinic movement in the United States from the 1910s through the 1970s, a period that witnessed dramatic transformation in the goods and services such clinics provided. Rose Holz uncovers the virtually unexamined relationship between Planned Parenthood and the commercial marketplace sphere. Challenging more than thirty years of historiography on birth control, Holz sheds new light on battles over reproductive rights through her analysis of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America within the context of the commercial birth control world. Revealing that it would be Planned Parenthood's engagement to charity -- the argument the organization once used to discredit the presumed profit-driven exploitation of the marketplace -- that would put precisely those women it hoped to assist in dangerous situations, she asks such probing questions as: What were the meanings attached to the provision of birth control and its commercial distribution? How in turn were these meanings used as sources of power? The project draws on rich primary sources to answer these questions and to examine the historical role of the local birth control clinic in modern America (AU).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUERRINI, Anita. Experimenting with humans and animals: from galen to animal rights. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

 

Experimentation on animals and particularly humans is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and medical sciences to experiment on living creatures date from the earliest expression of Western thought. In Animal and Human Experimentation, Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these practices from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects.Guerrini discusses in-depth key historical episodes in the use of living beings in science and medicine, including the discovery of blood circulation, the development of smallpox and polio vaccines, and recent AIDS research. She also explores the rise of the antivivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern animal rights movement, and current debates over gene therapy. In this highly accessible text, we learn how our understanding of an animal's capacity to feel pain has evolved. Guerrini reminds us that the ethical values of science seldom stray far from those of the society in which scientists live and work (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCULL, Andrew. Madness in civilization: a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to modern medicine. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.

  

 

The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go―these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an effort to tame the demons of unreason. Madness in Civilization traces the long and complex history of this affliction and our attempts to treat it.Beautifully illustrated throughout, Madness in Civilization takes readers from antiquity to today, painting a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways that cultures around the world have interpreted and responded to the seemingly irrational, psychotic, and insane. From the Bible to Sigmund Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humors to modern pharmacology, the book explores the manifestations and meanings of madness, its challenges and consequences, and our varied responses to it. It also looks at how insanity has haunted the imaginations of artists and writers and describes the profound influence it has had on the arts, from drama, opera, and the novel to drawing, painting, and sculpture.Written by one of the world's preeminent historians of psychiatry, Madness in Civilization is a panoramic history of the human encounter with unreason (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TAKAHASHI, Ana. The development of the Japanese nursing profession: adopting and adapting Western influences. London: Routledge, 2011.
 

 

In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It discusses how Japanese nursing adopted western models, implementing 'Nightingale-ism' in a conscious, caricature way, and implemented it more fully, at least on the surface, than in Britain. At the same time Japanese nurses had to cope, with great difficulty, with traditional Japanese attitudes, which were strongly opposed to women being involved in professions of any kind, and, as the book shows, western models did not in fact penetrate very deeply (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

PORTER, Roy. Breve historia de la locura. Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002.

 

Quizá lo más sensato, dada la variedad de doctrinas que apoyan o reniegan del término, sea afirmar que la locura existe y que adopta la forma que las distintas sociedades le atribuyen. En este divertido libro, escrito en un escrupuloso orden cronológico, Roy Porter nos ofrece un breve pero exhaustivo viaje por el tratamiento que de la locura han procurado las distintas culturas: desde las civilizaciones de los grandes ríos, donde ya se realizaban trepanaciones de asombrosa habilidad quirúrgica, hasta el diván del doctor Freud, pasando por los vínculos entre locura y pecado imaginados por los cristianos. Las interpretaciones de algunas descripciones de la Ilíada o de Edipo rey que Porter hace aportan nueva luz sobre los fundamentos de nuestra civilización y el lector asiste a tal número de formas de erradicar la locura a lo largo de la historia que no le queda otro remedio que relativilizar los prejuicios sobre la misma. A cambio obtiene una esclarecedora visión sobre el llamado en otros tiempos "mal melancólico", y la constatación de que no hay sociedad que no necesite de esta enfermedad para exorcizar sus propios fantasmas (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D’ANTONIO, Patricia; FAIRMAN, Julie A.; WHELAN, Jean C. (Eds.). Routledge handbook on the global history of nursing. London; Routledge, 2016.

 

 

The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing brings together leading scholars and scholarship to capture the state of the art and science of nursing history, as a generation of researchers turn to the history of nursing with new paradigms and methodological tools. Inviting readers to consider new understandings of the historical work and worth of nursing in a larger global context, this ground-breaking volume illuminates how research into the history of nursing moves us away from a reductionist focus on diseases and treatments and towards more inclusive ideas about the experiences of illnesses on individuals, families, communities, voluntary organizations, and states at the bedside and across the globe. An extended introduction by the editors provides an overview and analyzes the key themes involved in the transmission of ideas about the care of the sick. Organized into four parts, and addressing nursing around the globe, it covers: New directions in the history of nursing; New methodological approaches; The politics of nursing knowledge; Nursing and its relationship to social practice. Exploring themes of people, practice, politics and places, this cutting edge volume brings together the best of nursing history scholarship, and is a vital reference for all researchers in the field, and is also relevant to those studying on nursing history and health policy courses (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MATASSA, Freda. Valuing your collection: a practical guide for museums, libraries and archives. London: Facet, 2017.

 

 

 

This book addresses the issue of valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value and featuring a range of collections including fine art, archives, science and photography. Practical advice is given on how to assign values and best practice examples are drawn from museums, libraries and archives. The subject of valuation has always been challenging for museums and public collections and is becoming more urgent as monetary values of many items continue to break records. There is an increase in lending, with more loans requiring a value for insurance. Cultural collections and exhibitions are expanding to all corners of the world, while, at the same time, lenders are becoming more risk-averse. Valuing Your Collection will address the issues and offer some solutions. Content covered includes: questions of valuing public and private cultural collections assigning values to individual objects or an entire collection legal and ethical considerations discussion of authentication and attribution the insurance business and valuation guides to valuing different types of collections a range of case studies showing valuation across multiple sectors sample templates with criteria for valuing different objects. This book will be useful for curators of cultural collections, professionals in museums, libraries and archives, cultural heritage students, private collectors, those involved with art insurance, art business and anyone requiring practical guidance on valuation (AU).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FORTRIEDE, Steven Carl. Moving your library: getting the collection from here to there. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010.

 

  

 

The task of moving collections of books and other materials can be overwhelming as library facilities evolve to reflect changing demographics and use patterns. Author and experienced mover Steven Carl Fortriede has everything you need to get the job done quickly and efficiently with step-by-step directions, diagrams, spreadsheets, and photos. Readers will learn how to plan a library move, which method is best for a particular situation, how to recruit and train workers, and what tools and supplies are needed. Everything you need for the move is included - even specifications for boxes, moving carts, sorting trays, and a worksheet to calculate shelving layouts and growth rates. "Moving Your Library" is the complete kit for any librarian facing the daunting prospect of moving a library collection (AU).