This comprehensive title presents the history and practices of medical science, covering developments in the field from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into cutting-edge 21st-century techniques. The major branches of medicine are covered, as are more in-depth looks at clinical practice, disease and epidemiology, surgery, and pharmacology. As such, this text gives middle school to high school aged readers a systematic approach to understanding an essential branch of science that they undoubtedly will have encountered in their own lives.

The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the fore the stories of the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged the establishment. Drawing on his earlier work on moral revolutions and the history of medical ethics, Robert Baker traces the history of modern medical ethics and its bioethical turn to the moral insurrections incited by the many unsung dissenters and whistleblowers: African American civil rights leaders, Jewish Americans harboring Holocaust memories, feminists, women, and Anglo-American physicians and healthcare professionals who were veterans of the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. The standard narrative for bioethics typically emphasizes the morally disruptive medical technologies of the latter part of the twentieth century, such as the dialysis machine, the electroencephalograph, and the ventilator, as they created the need to reconsider traditional notions of medical ethics. Baker, however, tells a fresh narrative, one that has historically been neglected (e.g., the story of the medical veterans who founded an international medical organization to rescue medicine and biomedical research from the scandal of Nazi medicine), and also reveals the penalties that moral change agents paid (e.g., the stubborn bureaucrat who was demoted for her insistence on requiring and enforcing research subjects’ informed consent). Analyzing major statements of modern medical ethics from the 1946–1947 Nuremberg Doctors Trials and Nuremberg Code to A Patient’s Bill of Rights, Making Modern Medical Ethics is a winning history of just how respect and autonomy for patients and research subjects came to be codified.

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler: In this seminal work, William Osler, a renowned physician and medical educator, traces the historical development and advances in modern medicine. From the early understanding of disease and medical practices to the cutting-edge research and discoveries of the time, Osler offers readers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the progress of medical science. Key Aspects of the Book "The Evolution of Modern Medicine": Historical Perspective: The book provides a historical overview of the evolution of medical knowledge and practices, showcasing the contributions of various cultures and time periods. Medical Discoveries and Innovations: William Osler discusses the significant medical breakthroughs that have shaped the modern medical landscape. Medical Education and Practice: "The Evolution of Modern Medicine" also addresses the development of medical education and the evolution of medical ethics and professionalism. William Osler (1849-1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. He was a prominent figure in the field of medicine, known for his significant contributions to medical education and research. Osler's emphasis on clinical teaching and bedside diagnosis revolutionized medical education and greatly influenced the practice of medicine in the early 20th century.