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Understanding The Role Of Race In American Medicine, Fariel C. A. Lamountain

Honors Theses

Long running inequity in health care and outcomes in the United States stem from failure to acknowledge the underlying role of the Transatlantic slave trade as it manifests in all facets of American society and commerce. This paper focuses specifically on the American medical system and its foundations to understand the precursors to generational trends in lack of access to healthcare and poor health for Black communities. This paper uses a three-pronged approach to understand the racist cycle of inequity, highlighting the history and origins of racism in American medicine, personal accounts and statistical evidence of inequity, and community and …

Examining Health Inequity In Ancient Egypt, Samantha Rose Gonzalez

MSU Graduate Theses

This thesis explores the history of medicine in ancient Egypt between the Middle and New Kingdoms, and offers a case study highlighting the use of religion and magic in healing and analyzing health inequity. I am interested in medical practices, treatments, diagnosis methods, and access to healthcare in the ancient world. I seek to bridge the gaps and help unify the knowledge surrounding ancient Egyptian medical practices and contribute to the studies in the history of medicine. I explore types of diseases that commonly affected the ancient Egyptians and how they integrated religion and magic into their understanding and treatment …

Medieval Infertility: Treatments, Cures, And Consequences, Zia Simpson

The Forum: Journal of History

Since the first civilizations emerged, reproductive ability has been one of the most prominent elements in assessing a woman’s value to society. Other characteristics such as beauty, intelligence, and wealth may have been granted comparable consequence, but those are arbitrary and improvable. Fertility is genetic, and for centuries it was beyond human control. Among the medieval European nobility, fertility held even greater power. The absence of an heir could, either directly or indirectly, bring about war, economic depression, and social disorder. Catholicism provided a refuge by allowing barren women to retain their hopes, while simultaneously enriching Rome’s coffers. Other women …

Diagnosing The Will To Suffer: Lovesickness In The Medical And Literary Traditions, Jane Shmidt

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Throughout Western medical history, unconsummated, unreturned, or otherwise failed love was believed to generate a disorder of the mind and body that manifested in physiological and psychological symptoms. This study traces the medical and literary history of lovesickness from antiquity through the 19^th century, emphasizing significant moments in the development of the medical discourse on love. The project is part of the recent academic focus on the intersection between the humanities and the medical sciences, and it situates literary texts in concurrent medical and philosophical debates on afflictions of the psyche. By contextualizing the fictional works within the scientific …

Historical And Cross-Cultural Perspectives On Parkinson's Disease, Lee Xenakis Blonder

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting up to 10 million people worldwide according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. Epidemiological and genetic studies show a preponderance of idiopathic cases and a subset linked to genetic polymorphisms of a familial nature. Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda recognized and treated the illness that Western Medicine terms PD millennia ago, and descriptions of Parkinson’s symptomatology by Europeans date back 2000 years to the ancient Greek physician Galen. However, the Western nosological classification now referred to in English as “Parkinson’s disease” and the description of symptoms that define it, are accredited to …

Since The Time Of Eve : La Leche League And Communities Of Mothers Throughout History., Joanna Paxton Federico

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

La Leche League International (LLL) is the oldest and largest breastfeeding support group in the world. This thesis examines how, beginning in 1956, seven Catholic housewives from suburban Chicago built up the institutional knowledge to sustain a cohesive global network of breastfeeding mothers. It also explores how LLL managed this knowledge over time in response to developments in scholarship and changing social conditions. Based on a narrative analysis of LLL publications, this thesis argues that the League’s founders drew selectively from existing bodies of knowledge and from their own cultural perspectives to establish a sense of community among breastfeeding women. …

Healing Powers; An Examination Of Medical Ethics, Benevolent Lies, And The Doctor-Patient Relationship In Late Eighteenth-Century Britain, Rosa Dale-Moore

Honors Program Theses

This paper will discuss foundational thought for the practice of medical ethics in the context of Dr. Thomas Percival, a physician in late eighteenth century Britain, and his work in which he introduced a code of medical ethics in an attempt to correct the imbalance of values used by physicians in their medical practices and to codify medical ethics as a practice in the Manchester Infirmary.

Medical Breakthroughs In The Islamic Golden Age: Models And Inspirations For Muslim Youth And Adults Alike, Shareef Gamal Mohamed Kotb

Honors Senior Capstone Projects

Great discoveries, inventions and innovations in the sciences as well as other branches of knowledge were developed during the Islamic Golden Age (7th-13th century). During this period in time, scientists such as Al Kindi and Avicenna (Ibn-Sina) served as bridges between the Ancient Greeks and the Western World, transferring and nurturing these branches of knowledge, most notably the field of medicine. These scientists were able to attain much knowledge about medicine through the support of the religion of Islam, the Caliphates of this region, and the language, as they all helped to support this one cause. These innovators were able …

“To Support The Southern Medical Public”: The Medical College Of Georgia As A Southern Information Agency, 1828–1861, Brenton Stewart

Faculty Publications

A traditional perspective situates nineteenth-century southern academic library culture as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. This article challenges that assertion and traditional beliefs about the South's indifference to cultural advancement by examining the print culture of one of the South's leading educational institutions, the Medical College of Georgia. An antebellum in­formation agency, the Medical College of Georgia leveraged its medical li­brary, museum, and journal to transform medical information production, dissemination, and consumption in the South and represents an important symbol of southern modernity. This article presents a distinct analysis of early nineteenth-century southern medicoscientific information culture.

Carmen Pettapiece, D.O. Scrapbook 3, Carmen Pettapiece D.O.

Carmen Pettapiece, D.O. Scrapbooks

Scrapbook of personal papers and osteopathy-related materials from the collection of Carmen Pettapiece, D.O.

The Medical Response To The Black Death, Joseph A. Legan

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This paper discusses the medical response to the Black Death in both Europe and the Middle East. The Black Death was caused by a series of bacterial strands collectively known as Yersinia pestis. The Plague originated in the Mongolian Steppes. It was spread westward by the east-west trading system. Once it arrived in the Crimea in 1346, Italian merchants helped spread it throughout the Mediterranean. Medicine in Europe and the Middle East were centered on Galen’s theory of humors. There were many religious explanations for the Plague, but the main medical explanation was the spread of bad air, or …

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)–An Unfinished Life, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

The fame of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) rests on his anatomy text, De humani corporis fabrica, regarded as a seminal book in modern medicine. It was compiled while he taught anatomy at Padua, 1537-1543. Some of his findings challenged Galen’s writings of the 2c AD, and caused De fabrica to be rejected immediately by classically trained anatomists. At age 29, Vesalius abandoned his studies and over the next two decades served as physician to Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) and later to King Philip II of Spain in Madrid. In 1564, he sought to resume teaching anatomy …

Carmen Pettapiece, D.O. Scrapbook 2, Carmen Pettapiece D.O.

Carmen Pettapiece, D.O. Scrapbooks

Scrapbook of personal papers and osteopathy-related materials from the collection of Carmen Pettapiece, D.O.

Newcastle And Northumbria Universities, Conference “Fashionable Diseases. Medicine, Literature And Culture, Ca. 1660-1832", Paper: “On The End Of Fashionable Melancholy”, July 3-5 (4th), 2014., Marco Solinas

Marco Solinas

The paper analyze the crucial moment of rupture in the history of the definitions, descriptions and classifications of melancholy within the ambit of medicine that occurred between the end of the Eighteenth- and beginning of the Nineteenth-century, in particular in France. That is the point at which Philippe Pinel, absorbing the contributions of Seventeenth-century British psychiatry, proceeded to abandon both the humoral doctrine and the old Renaissance conception of the dual character – melancholy as a psycho-physiological illness and as a literary and philosophical mood. Pinel now locates melancholy only among forms of mental alienation. I will proceed with the …

[Review] Dissetè Congrès De Metges I Biólegs De Llengua Catalana. València, 28-30 Octubre 2004 (2005), Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

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Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Mr. Sly discusses five sources of uncertainty and ambiguity in health and medical research that can interfere with decision making.

0094: Charles Anthony (Carl) Hoffman, M.D., Papers, 1946-1975, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection is comprised of materials, recording the achievements and honors of Dr. Charles A. Hoffman, M.D.

Included in the collection are certificates, diplomas, awards, and citations, given to Dr. Hoffman for his outstanding service to the medical profession and to his community. Of interest are two gold medals, presented to Dr. Hoffman for his service as president of both the American Urological Association and the American Medical Association. The collection also includes copies of Dr. Hoffman’s numerous speeches, delivered before various medical, professional and community groups. Most of these were given while he was president of the American Medical …

Ariel - Volume 2 Number 6, Stephen P. Flynn, Delvyn C. Case, Jr., Lynne Porter, Tom Williams, James Redka, Eugenia Miller, Paul Farnhoff, James R. Dooley, Shep Dickman, Carl Silberman, Donald L. Eccleston, Steven Allen Ager

Ariel

Editors

Richard J. Bonanno

Robin A. Edwards

Associate Editors

Steven Ager

Stephen Flynn

Shep Dickman

Tom Williams

Lay-out Editor

Eugenia Miller

Contributing Editors

Michael J. Blecker

W. Cherry Light

James J. Nocon

Lynne Porter

Editors Emeritus

Delvyn C. Case, Jr.

Paul M. Fernhoff

Ariel - Volume 2 Number 4, Shep Dickman, Tom Williams, Mike Starrels, Richard Bonanno, Delvyn C. Case, Jr., Michael Blecker, Cherry Light, Michael Steinberg, Jay S. Rosen, Eugenia Miller, Robin Edwards, Lowell E. Kobrin, Michael Z. Blumberg

Ariel

Copyright 1969 Ariel

Certificates, 1935, 1938, Lowell M. Hardy Do

Personal and Professional Papers

Certificates from the completion of a post graduate needle surgery course as well as from the Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital.

Modern Surgery - Frontismatter, Table Of Contents, And Introduction, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 1. Bacteriology, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 24. Surgery Of The Spine, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - The Peritoneum, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - Stomach And Intestines, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 26. Diseases And Injuries Of The Upper Digestive Tract, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 21. Orthopedic Surgery, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - Hernias, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 27. Diseases And Injuries Of The Abdomen - Operations Upon The Abdomen, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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Modern Surgery - Chapter 29. Anesthesia And Anesthetics, John Chalmers Da Costa

Modern Surgery, 4th edition, by John Chalmers Da Costa

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