Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers
Title | Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers PDF eBook |
Author | Tara Womersley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN | 9781910745373 |
In a history spanning more than three centuries, Edinburgh has played a key role in the development of modern medicine. From dissecting bodies 'donated' by grave robbers and murderers to developing modern lifesaving treatments, the city's medical community has never been afraid to challenge entrenched medical ideas. Pioneering discoveries range from the identification of leukaemia to modern day breakthroughs, including hepatitis B vaccine and the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. The tale of Edinburgh's medical past is told through the stories of colourful characters including the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, the evolutionist Charles Darwin, surgeons Joseph Lister and James Syme as well as Sophia Jex-Blake, who headed the campaign for women's right to study medicine, and 'James Barry', Britain's first female doctor.
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers
Title | Lifesavers and Body Snatchers PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Cook |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2022-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0735242321 |
*FINALIST FOR THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK* From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers. Medical care in almost all armies during the Great War, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving. Vastly more wounded soldiers were saved than lost. Doctors and surgeons prevented disease from decimating armies, confronted ghastly wounds from chemical weap-ons, remade shattered bodies, and struggled to ease soldiers’ battle-haunted minds. After the war, the hard lessons learned by doctors and nurses were brought back to Canada. A new Department of Health created guidelines in the aftermath of the 1918–1919 influ-enza pandemic, which had killed 55,000 Canadians and millions around the world. In a grim irony, the fight to improve civilian health was furthered by the most destructive war up to that point in human history. But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers exposes the disturbing story of the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines. Tim Cook has spent over a decade investigating the history of Canadian medical doctors removing the body parts of slain soldiers and transporting their brains, lungs, bones, and other organs to the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London, England. Almost 800 individual body parts were removed from the dead and sent to London, where they were stored, treated, and presented in exhibition galleries. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed in Canada. This uncovered history has never been told before and is part of the hidden legacy of the medical war. Based on deep archival research and unpublished letters of soldiers and medical personnel, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers is a powerful narrative, told in Cook’s literary style, which reveals how the medical services supported the soldiers at the front and forged a profound legacy in shaping Canadian public health in the decades that followed.
Bodysnatchers to Livesavers
Title | Bodysnatchers to Livesavers PDF eBook |
Author | Tara Womersley |
Publisher | Luath Press Ltd |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2015-01-31 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1910324124 |
This book provides an illustrated history of medicine in Edinburgh in an accessible style for the general reader. Centered on the 280 year history of Edinburgh Medical School, the book showcases famous Edinburgh medical alumni through the ages including Robert Knox and others like Charles Darwin and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who studied medicine in Edinburgh but went on to make their names in other fields. The book follows the evolution of medical practice through the ages, from the dark practices of the 19th century to Dolly, the first cloned sheep in the 21st century. It highlights the key advances made by Edinburgh medics in public health, anesthesia, surgery, antiseptics and antibiotics. Edinburgh Medical School was the first to admit women, and we follow their struggles, headed by the formidable Sophia Jex-Blake.
From Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers
Title | From Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy H. Crawford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Intensive Care
Title | Intensive Care PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Francis |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1782838163 |
A Spectator Book of the Year An Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight 'Compassionate, beautifully written .. will only grow in importance and interest as the years go by' Jenny Colgan, Spectator 'Searing yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what matters most in life, as well as in medicine.' Rachel Clarke, author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic and Your Life in My Hands 'Well written, often entertaining and occasionally deeply moving; an unmissable account of a year we will all try too hard to forget.' The Times 'Inspiring. I can't recommend it too strongly. You will learn a lot from it, and you will find much more that is encouraging.' Allan Massie, Scotsman Intensive Care is about how coronavirus emerged, spread across the world and changed all of our lives forever. But it's not, perhaps, the story you expect. Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and the islands of Orkney. When the pandemic arrived in our society he saw how it affected every walk of life: the anxious teenager, the isolated care home resident, the struggling furloughed worker and homeless ex-prisoner, all united by their vulnerability in the face of a global disaster. And he saw how the true cost of the virus was measured not just in infections, or deaths, or ITU beds, but in the consequences of the measures taken against it. In this deeply personal account of eighteen months spent caring for a society in crisis, Francis will take you from rural village streets to local clinics and communal city stairways. And in telling this story, he reveals others: of loneliness and hope, illness and recovery, and of what we can achieve when we care for each other.
The Ardlamont Mystery
Title | The Ardlamont Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Smith |
Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1782438475 |
The real-life mystery featuring the two men - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
Greyfriars Graveyard
Title | Greyfriars Graveyard PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Golledge |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 183 |
Release | 2018-10-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1445688190 |
Explore the story of Greyfriars Graveyard, Edinburgh’s most important burial ground since the 16th century.