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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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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

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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

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Introductory Address Delivered Before The Students Of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia., Samuel Henry Dickson, Md, Lld

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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Introductory Lecture To The Course On The Institutes Of Medicine, In Jefferson Medical College, Delivered October 8, 1860., Robley Dunglison, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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Jefferson Medical College Matriculation Records, 1860-1879

Jefferson Medical College Records Books

Register book of all matriculated students at Jefferson Medical College from 1860-1879. Includes student's name, address, academic course, preceptor, and previous institution.

On The Progress Of Recent Science; A Lecture, Introductory To The Course Of Practice Of Medicine., John K. Mitchell, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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Introductory Lecture To The Course Of Anatomy, Delivered In Jefferson Medical College, October 19th, 1849., Joseph Pancoast, Md

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Introductory Lecture To The Course Of The Practice Of Medicine, Delivered In Jefferson Medical College, October 16th, 1849., John K. Mitchell, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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Jefferson Medical College Matriculation Records, 1849-1859

Jefferson Medical College Records Books

Register book of all matriculated students at Jefferson Medical College from 1849-1859. Includes student's name, address, academic course, preceptor, and previous institution.

Professor Dunglison's Introductory Lecture In Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia, November 4, 1847., Robley Dunglison, Md

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Lecture Introductory To The Course On The Practice Of Medicine In The Jefferson Medical College, Delivered November 2, 1847., John K. Mitchell, Md

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Introductory Lecture. By Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Charles D. Meigs, Md

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Dr. Huston's Lecture Introductory To The Course On Materia Medica, &C. In Jefferson Medical College, November 5, 1846., Robert M. Huston, Md

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Dr. Dunglison's Introductory Lecture To The Course On Institutes Of Medicine, November 3, 1845., Robley Dunglison, Md

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An Introductory Lecture To The Course Of Institutes Of Medicine, &C. In Jefferson Medical College, Delivered Nov. 4, 1844., Robley Dunglison, Md

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Lecture Introductory To His Course Of Lectures For 1843-4., Charles D. Meigs, Md

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An Introductory Lecture To The Course Of Institutes Of Medicine, &C. In Jefferson Medical College, Delivered Nov. 8, 1843., Robley Dunglison, Md

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A Lecture Introductory To The Course Of Obstetrics In Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia, Delivered November 5, 1842., Charles D. Meigs, Md

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On Certain Medical Delusions, An Introductory Lecture To The Course Of Institutes Of Medicine In Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia. Delivered November 4, 1842., Robley Dunglison, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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