Dissertations / Theses: 'Medical history'

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Blackmer, Jessie. "Mice, Memory, and Medical history: A Personal Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1314909047.

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Brumbaough, John Howard Jr. ""We are Entitled to, and we Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4589.

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This thesis traces the efforts of rural county in Utah attempting to create a professional medical system and addresses the challenges community faced in this effort including divisions among local and national medical societies, women and gender issues, and opposition to religious hierarchy. Navigating these conflicts, the local leaders in San Juan County established a medical cooperative which enable the permanent residence of a physician and later the construction of a hospital. San Juan County provided these medical services for its residents at a time when many of counties in the United States failed to expand their health services. San Juan succeeded due to dynamic leadership, support of local medical association, and the slow expansion of the medical system.

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Marotta, Jennifer Susan. "Constructing the norm, medical advice literature to Canadian adolescents, c. 1873-1922." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0009/MQ31227.pdf.

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Tom, Brian Dermot Ming. "Modelling event-history data in the context of medical statistics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624771.

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McShane, Charlene. "Prior medical history, drug exposure and risk of multiple myeloma." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678815.

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To date, very little is known about the aetiology of the plasma cell disorder multiple myeloma (MM) and its precursor condition monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Chronic antigenic stimulation and, more recently, medications have been investigated as potential aetiological risk factors however findings from observational studies have been largely inconsistent. This thesis aimed to explore the impact of medical history and drug exposure on the risk of developing MGUS and MM. A systematic review of the literature revealed an elevated risk of MGUS/MM in association with prior autoimmune disease and in particular pernicious anaemia. The findings of this study were further supported by a population-based nested case-control study carried out within the UK Clinical Practice Research Oatalink (CPRO). Similarly an increased risk of MGUS and MM following exposure to common community-acquired infections was observed within studies carried out within the CPRO and the USA SEER-Medicare dataset. Autoimmune disease and infections diagnosed after MGUS were not associated with progression to MM or associated Iymphoproliferative disorders within the CPRO dataset. Oral statin and bisphosphonate use was investigated as a risk factor for the development of MGUS/MM and MGUS progression using the UK CPRO dataset. While there was evidence of a reduced risk of MGUS/MM in association with oral statin use, an increased risk of both MGUS and MM was observed among oral bisphosphonate users most likely as a result of detection bias and/or reverse causality. Post-diagnostic statin use was also associated with a reduced risk of MGUS progression to any Iymphoproliferative disorder but not MM. Overall, the studies conducted as part of this thesis support a role for chronic antigenic stimulation in the development of MGUS and MM, and suggest a potential role for statins as chemopreventive agents within the MGUS/MM setting. Further research is however warranted to confirm these findings.

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Tougaw, Jason Daniel. "Strange cases : the medical case history and the British novel /." New York : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40175709b.

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Twohig, Peter L. "Organizing the bench, medical laboratory workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/NQ49295.pdf.

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Curth, Louise Hill. "The medical content of English almanacs, 1640-1700." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272171.

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Schiff, Noah. "The sweetest of all charities, the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children's medical and public appeal, 1875-1905." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0010/MQ46021.pdf.

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Carrothers, Leslie C. "Capacity, costs, and control, health care policy in Manitoba from 1948 to 1988." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ35041.pdf.

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Hutt, Marten. "Medical biography and autobiography in Britain, c.1780-1920." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284246.

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Collins, Kenneth Edward. "Jewish medical students and graduates in Scotland : 1739-1945." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277294.

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Winkup, Judith Lynn. "Reluctant re-definition, medical dominance and the representation of midwifery in CMAJ, 1967-1997." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ35945.pdf.

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Harrison, Mark. "Public health and medical research in India, c.1860-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315793.

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Weatherall, Mark. "Scientific medicine and the medical sciences in Cambridge, 1851-1939." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272550.

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Foland, Jed Rivera. "The body through the lens : anatomy and medical microscopy during the enlightenment." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3a82a1a2-15fd-458e-a566-6d52ed59d8b7.

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This thesis examines the role of microscope technology in informing medical and anatomical knowledge during the Enlightenment. Past historians have claimed that microscopy generally stagnated until the popularisation of achromatic microscopes and cell theory in the middle of the nineteenth century. As evidence for this decline, historians have pointed to the poor quality and slow development of microscope designs until the popularisation of achromatic microscopes in the 1820s. In contrast, this thesis highlights the role of specific Enlightenment-era microscopes in answering medical and anatomical questions. It suggests that medical microscopy was far more advanced than previous scholarship has ascertained. Thus far, instrument historians have focused more attention on competing instrument makers as opposed to rival instrument users. This thesis presents several case studies which explore both makers and users. These concern the histories of Enlightenment-era epidemiology, reproduction theory, anatomy, and physiology as well as the different types of microscopes which influenced these fields. In terms of methodology, this thesis neither follows nor casts doubt on any particular theory of historical development; rather, it attempts to shed further light on available primary sources and their contexts. Presenting key case studies illustrates the difficulties that early microscope users faced in acquiring and publishing new observations. To explore the practice of early microscopy further, this thesis presents re-enactments of these case studies using Enlightenment-era microscopes and modern tissue samples. Thus, this thesis is a call to broaden the scope of primary sources available to historians of science and medicine to include instruments and re-enactments. This thesis finds that technological advances did not correlate to microscopical discovery in medicine or anatomy. Both simple and complex microscope designs aided anatomical and medical research. Broader advances in anatomy, physiology, and medical etiology dictated the utility of medical microscopy. Although various groups, such as the French clinicians, saw little need for microscopy towards the end of the eighteenth century, microscope-based evidence continued to play a diagnostic role among lesser-known practitioners despite its lack of visibility in medical literature.

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Schaub, Katherine Elizabeth. "Rape as a Legitimate Medical event from 1800 - 1910." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1372382350.

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Necochea, Lopez Raul. "A history of the medical control of fertility in Peru, 1895 - 1976." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86866.

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Demographic transition theorists posit that, beginning in the 1960s, biomedical contraceptive technologies and foreign countries, the United States in particular, have been primarily responsible for changes in medical fertility control ideas and practices in Peru. This dissertation argues that biomedical technologies and transnational political actors have played a role, but not always in the ways that demographic transition theorists indicate. The mass distribution of contraceptives such as the pill and the intra-uterine device, for example, depended on the existence of US-funded birth control organizations. However, these birth control organizations did not justify their existence in Peru only in terms of the promotion of development, but also by making appeals to the integrity of the family, values that many local physicians cherished. In addition, biomedical knowledge concerning the control of fertility began to be applied long before the 1960s, and not all of it originated in the United States nor was it all oriented towards the limitation of birth rates. Moreover, demographic transition theory's assumption that financial calculations were the primary reason for the prevention or spacing of births overlooks other factors, such as marital strife, that also affected the desire for offspring. Through archival material and oral histories in Peru and the United States, this dissertation raises questions about the ideologies and practices of medical experts, and their interactions with state agencies, foreign governments, the Catholic Church, and people who had abortions.
La théorie de la transition demographique suggere une transformation telle que, depuis les années 1960, les technologies biomédicales et les pays étrangers, espécialement les États-Unis, fut principalement responsables pour les changements des idées et pratiques en matière du contrôle medical de la fertilité au Pérou. Cette thèse argumente que les technologies biomédicales aussi que les acteurs politiques transnationaux en effet jouèrent un rôle, mais pas toujours dans la façon prévue par les théoristes de la transition demographique. La distribution massive des méthodes contraceptifs, tel que la pillule et le dispositif intra-uterin, par example, dépendit de l'existence des organismes de contrôle de la natalité financiés par les États-Unis. Cependent, cettes organismes ne justifièrent leur présence au Pérou seulement par la promotion du developement. Ils attachaient aussi de l'importance à l'integrité de la famille, un valeur que beaucoup des médecins entretinrent. D'ailleurs, des connaissances biomédicales sur le contrôle de la fertilité commencèrent à être appliquées avant les années 1960, et une partie importante d'entre elles ne provinrent pas des États-Unis. De plus, la supposition que la théorie de la transition demographique fasse sur la prevention ou l'espacement des naissances comme simples resultats des calculs economiques néglige autres facteurs, tel que les querelles des couples, lesquelles affectaient aussi le désir d'avoir des enfants. A travers des materiaux d'archives et des intervues au Pérou et aux États-Unis, cette thèse nous emmene a considerer les ideologies et les pratiques des experts médicaux, aussi que les interactions entre eux et des agences gouvernamentales, des gouvernements étrangers, l'église Catholique, et des gens qui avortaient.

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Delisio, John Paul Jr. "Fighting For A Cure| The Berry Plan's Impact on Civilian Medical Research." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10621491.

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This paper details the story of Yellow Berets and their research at the National Institute of Health. Yellow Berets were part of the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War. Forced to serve in the military through the Berry Plan, Yellow Berets chose to research civilian medical problems instead of fighting in Vietnam. The combination of Yellow Berets and an increased budget allowed the NIH to become a premier research institute for civilian medical advances.

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Bonanno, Grace. "The Importance of a Pictorial Medical History in Assisting Medical Diagnosis of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: A Telemedicine Approach." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/51.

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When face-to-face physical medical exams are not possible, virtual physical exams, in the form of a pictorial medical exam/history, can be substituted, and telemedicine can be the means to deliver these virtual exams. The goal of this work was to determine if presence in the form of a visual and/or pictorial medical history can be of benefit to clinicians in the diagnosis of medical conditions of individuals with developmental disabilities (DDs) and/or intellectual disabilities (IDs), in particular those who cannot, because of their cognitive and/or physical disabilities, verbally relate their illness to a clinician. Virtual exams can also be useful in cases where clinicians may need additional advice from fellow experts, especially if those experts are not physically present. A web-based telemedicine application used for treating persons with DD/IDs was developed. This application includes a visual medical history component incorporated into an electronic medical records application. The purpose is to allow the clinician to use an environment that integrates a written and visual representation of a patient’s medical history and physical findings to aid the clinician in determining a medical diagnosis. Twenty-two clinicians and five direct service aids of a New York State Developmental Disabilities Services Office facility, who deliver healthcare to DD/ID patients on a daily basis, accessed the telemedicine application instead of their traditional hardcopy/paper medical history when examining patients. A comprehensive survey was distributed to the clinicians to determine the effectiveness of the application as well as help answer the primary questions proposed by this research. The results of this study showed that presence in the form of a video medical history is preferred by clinicians rather than having just a written medical history of the patient. Clinicians felt the visual medical history component of the telemedicine application was useful and informative for delivering healthcare to individuals with DD/ID and enabled them in diagnosing a patient as well as lessened the need to transfer patients to the emergency room, resulting in a significant cost savings.

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Halpin, Ross William. "A history of concern: The ethical dilemma of using Nazi medical research data in contemporary medical and scientific research." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4010.

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Halpin, Ross William. "A history of concern the ethical dilemma of using Nazi medical research data in contemporary medical and scientific research /." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4010.

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So, Ping-cham, and 蘇炳湛. "Development of medical services in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43780556.

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Hellström, Filip. "British, medical practitioners’ perspectives on dysentery 1740-1800." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-423028.

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This master thesis aims to show how a qualitative approach to early modern medical practitioners’ perspectives can provide a basis for a better understanding of the disease of dysentery. The focus is on: 1) How the disease of dysentery was described and how the challenge of dysentery was perceived. 2) What individual measure and commitments were taken for the patients and why. 3) How the cause of the disease was understood and explained. 4) How perspectives differed between physicians and surgeons.Of particular interest when it comes to the disease of dysentery is how the disease and its cause were perceived.Eleven texts written by mainly British medical practitioners from primary sources such as reports, logbooks and letters on dysentery written during the years 1740 - 1800 have been used for close readings and a qualitative analysis was performed on the collected data.The analysis showed (i) that medical practitioners expressed considerable interest in dysentery and in trying to understand it as a great suffering for individuals, for society and for humanity as a whole. (ii) Medical practitioners took treatment measures based on how they understood the cause of the disease outbreak. Either the dysentery was referred to internal causes, as sickness in organs, especially the organs that produced bodily fluids, or it was referred to external causes, as a sickness caused by heat, cold, weather, winds, air, climate, seasons, lunar position, etc. (iii) The cause of the disease was understood and explained both as an infection and as a pre-disposition for imbalances in body fluids. (iv) Both physicians and surgeons understood that the disease of dysentery was a global phenomenon and that the disease often was connected to the climate and weather. This standpoint was based on the fact that dysentery distinguished itself as an autumnal disease. Its eruption usually began with a few scattered cases in July, then increased in August and culminated in September. Theories about the disease, its causes and treatment did not differ significantly between physicians and surgeons. However, the views of different physicians did differ.The thematic map of understanding related to disease of dysentery, shows that medical practitioners’ knowledge, theories and ideas behind the medical practice of dysentery, have an ambiguity in the view of both the dysentery and the treatment of it. This was probably due to interpretation based both on observable causes of diseases, and on a more theoretical abstract meaning, where diseases to a greater extent was understood on the basis of symptoms and signs.It is suggested that regardless of the knowledge base of the individual medical practitioner, no one represented an independent knowledge base for their treatment of dysentery; rather they participated actively with each other in a mutually constitutive way in order to shape their understanding of the dysentery. This theses’ qualitative approach, allows dysentery patients and their medical practitioners via the texts of the medical practitioners, to offer very personal accounts of a highly contagious disease.

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Gillespie, Janet Patricia. "Was King John of England bipolar? : a medical history using mathematical modelling." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12195.

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BACKGROUND - Bipolar disorder has been postulated as an explanation for King John's inconsistencies of leadership and vagaries of character. Changes in activity, matching those in mood, are core features of the condition. METHOD - A measure of King John's activity was derived from his travelling itinerary. Change Point Analysis (CPA) was used to detect significant changes in that travelling activity and from them, to identify clinically compliant, high and low, activity time periods. The results were tested against an alternative mathematical model (Bollinger Bands™), three alternative parameters and two comparator itineraries (familial & non-familial). Using primary historical sources and published analyses, bipolar symptoms were identified and their temporal relationship to the ICD-10 compliant CPA periods evaluated. The influence of circumstances was also evaluated using primary sources and a representative sequential sample (1200-1204). RESULTS - CPA identified 83 periods of changed travelling activity. These changes were mathematically independent of the availability of the historical sources that underpin the itinerary. From these, 37 high and 22 low periods complied with current diagnostic guidelines and demonstrated descriptive and statistical similarities to those found in the bipolar literature. Analyses using alternative mathematical modelling and different parameters showed similar changes; analyses of comparator itineraries showed a possible familial trait. Of the 17 bipolar symptoms identified, all were found in CPA periods of appropriate polarity. Of the 23 sequential periods, 10 showed evidence of behaviour that was difficult to attribute to circumstances. CONCLUSIONS & OUTCOMES - The pattern of changes in King John's activity are highly suggestive of bipolar disorder with primary historical sources describing synchronous bipolar behaviour. This may alter our understanding both of King John and of Magna Carta. Change Point Analysis merits greater consideration when analysing time based data, as does the use of activity as an objective marker of human behaviour.

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Archer, Patricia Margaret Alice. "A history of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain 1949-1997." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311981.

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Hamilton, Sheilah Elizabeth. "A history of the medical profession in Hong Kong's criminal justice system." Thesis, [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13781157.

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Bevan, Michael. "The social context of medical practice : gynaecology in Glasgow 1850-1914." Thesis, University of Essex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315625.

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Deacon, Harriet. "A history of the medical institutions on Robben Island, Cape Colony, 1846-1910." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272392.

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Kaloteka, Karolina. "Spatial Quarantine : The Swedish quarantine system 1850-1894 and a spatial theoretical framework." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-157144.

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McDowell, Michelle Elizabeth. "The Weight of History: Does Family History Influence Men's Perceptions of Risk and Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366074.

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The benefits of early detection screening for prostate cancer are still unclear and current screening guidelines recommend that men make an informed, personal decision based on an understanding of the risks, benefits, and uncertainties associated with screening. Men with a first-degree family history of prostate cancer are at more than double the risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer than are men without a family history. However, contrary to predictions put forward in previous research, although men with a family history of prostate cancer report greater risk perceptions and prostate cancer screening behaviour, increased risk perceptions do not predict screening. Previous research on how men with a family history of prostate cancer integrate heightened familial risk information into what is already a complex health decision has neglected to examine how men understand, combine, and weigh information about prostate cancer risk and the uncertainties of early detection screening to reach their decisions. The aim of the current thesis was to address these issues by applying three major theoretical models of judgement and decision-making to examine prostate cancer screening decisions for men with a family history and comparing their decisional process with that of men without a family history.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Psychology
Griffith Health
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Quilter, Julia 1970. "Re-inventing rape : an analysis of legal, medical, feminist and governmental discourses." Monash University, Dept. of Literary, Visual and Cultural Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8572.

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Tesfaye, Facil. "Medical expeditions and scramble for Africa: Robert Koch in Africa 1896-1907." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121329.

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The history of colonial medical expeditions and those involved in them is usually left to medical professionals who use their expertise to decrypt the technical and scientific aspects of the activities conducted on the ground. In addition, such works do not necessarily pay attention to the general historical context in which the expeditions occurred. This study is a historical examination of five medical expeditions that Robert Koch conducted in the African continent between 1896 and 1907. It places the activities of the German scientist in the general historical context of the late nineteenth century Africa, which was described by scholars as a "time of trouble and transformation". The extreme environmental conditions of African continent at the time, and the Scramble for Africa that was unfolding on the ground will thus provide the framework of analysis proposed by this study.
L'histoire des expéditions médicales coloniales et de ceux qui y ont été impliqués est généralement laissée aux professionnels de la santé qui utilisent leur savoir-faire pour décrypter les aspects techniques et scientifiques des activités menées sur le terrain. En outre, ces travaux ne paient pas nécessairement beaucoup d'attention au contexte historique général dans lequel les expéditions ont eu lieu. Cette thèse est un examen historique de cinq expéditions médicales que Robert Koch a mené sur le continent africain entre 1896 et 1907. Cette étude place les activités du scientifique allemand dans le contexte historique général africain de la fin du XIXe siècle, qui a été décrit par certains spécialistes comme un «temps de détresse et de transformation». La situation environnementale extrême du continent Africain de l'époque, ainsi que la ruée vers l'Afrique qui se déroulait au même moment serviront de cadre de l'analyse proposée par cette étude.

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Malowany, Maureen. "Medical pluralism : disease, health and healing on the coast of Kenya, 1840-1940." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ44508.pdf.

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Loh, Shi Lin. "Irradiated Trajectories: Medical Radiology in Modern Japan." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493463.

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This dissertation examines the history of modern Japan via a study of rentogen, or X-rays, in medical practice. Conventional milestones in Japan’s encounters with nuclear science all date from 1945: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that same year, the Bikini Atoll fallout incident in 1954, the construction of nuclear power plants from the late 1950s onwards, and most recently, the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in 2011. All these events produced hibakusha – the Japanese term for survivors of nuclear-related accidents, or people suffering the effects of exposure to ionising radiation. In contrast, this project locates the first hibakusha in an earlier period, revealing a history of radiation exposure in Japan before the atomic bombings. It reaches into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to find Japanese bodies exposed through the development of radiology. In modern Japan, as in Western Europe and America, X-rays constituted the first source of ionizing radiation that produced victims of burns, cancers, and deaths. This study highlights the political, social and cultural impact of modern Western medicine on Japanese society from the Meiji period onwards, showing how electric-powered machines and Western expertise came to define medical practice in the emergent field of radiology.
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Piper, Stamatia A. J. "The emergence of a medical exception from patentability in the 20th century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:85e2c91c-182e-45aa-8580-3908ac343a54.

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Many patent law dilemmas arise from a failure to understand technologies as embedded in broader social, economic and political realities and to contextually analyze these legal phenomena. This narrowness leads to poor legal development, of which the modern medical exception from patentability is one example. Judges have difficulty interpreting it, patentees do not understand its purpose and it does not protect the important medical technologies to which the public would like access. This thesis applies a legal pluralist analysis to examine the emergence of the medical methods exception in order to understand why it was created and legislated. It starts by examining the origins of the exception in the caselaw, and the informal, concurrent norm established by the emerging medical profession in the early 20th century. It then proceeds to examine why the medical profession might have sought and enforced a norm prohibiting its members from patenting, and concludes that this arose from the need of the medical profession to distance itself from the patent law. As a result, professionalizing physicians established an internal normative order that mimicked and in many cases replaced the effect of the formal law. The thesis then proceeds to examine how the form of the informal norm evolved in the period between WWI and WWII, finding that the profession’s norm transformed and broke down concurrently with its efforts to achieve external legitimacy through legislation. That breakdown arose from factors which included growing labour mobility, greater understanding of the benefits of patents, and a growing role of science and industry in medicine that threatened the profession’s access to valuable medical innovation. The thesis concludes with a study of a current case (Myriad Genetics) that applies the thesis’ theoretical framework to a present dispute over the role the law should play in regulating genetic diagnostic tests.

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Altonen, Brian Lee. "Asiatic cholera and dysentery on the Oregon Trail : a historical medical geography study." PDXScholar, 2000. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4305.

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Two disease regions existed on the Oregon Trail. Asiatic cholera impacted the Platte River flood plain from 1849 to 1852. Dysentery developed two endemic foci due to the decay of buffalo carcasses in eastern and middle Nebraska between 1844 and 1848, but later developed a much larger endemic region west of this Great Plains due to the infection of livestock carcasses by opportunistic bacteria. This study demonstrates that whereas Asiatic cholera diffusion along the Trail was defined primarily by human population features, topography, and regional climate along the Platte River flood plain, the distribution of opportunistic dysentery along the Trail was defined primarily by human and animal fitness in relation to local topography features. By utilizing a geographic interpretation of disease spread, the Asiatic cholera epidemic caused by Vibrio cholerae could be distinguished from the dysentery epidemic caused by one or more species of Salmonella or Campylobacter. In addition, this study also clarifies an important discrepancy popular to the Oregon Trail history literature. "Mountain fever," a disease typically associated with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, was demonstrated to be cases of fever induced by the same bacteria responsible for opportunistic dysentery. In addition, several important geographic methods of disease interpretations were used for this study. By relating the epidemiological transition model of disease patterns to the early twentieth century sequent occupance models described in numerous geography journals, a spatially- and temporally-oriented disease model was produced applicable to reviews of disease history, a method of analysis which has important applications to current studies of disease patterns in rapidly changing rural and urban population settings.

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Chaudhary, Sirmad. "The Cost of the Benefit: How Wilbur Mills's Expansion of Medicare Led to Escalating Medical Costs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/194.

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For much of the early 1960s, House Ways and Means chairman Wilbur Mills represented the “One-Man Veto” on Medicare before eventually offering his reluctant support to the measure in 1964 and 1965. Ironically, this longtime opponent would be the one to suggest an expansion in the scope of the bill. Early proposals for Medicare only offered to cover hospital costs; Mills would call for physician costs to be covered, as well. The aim of this thesis is to show how Mills’s expansion of Medicare benefits in 1965 caused health care costs to skyrocket in the late 1960s, causing the fiscally conservative Mills to co-sponsor legislation for a single-payer national health insurance program along with Senator Edward Kennedy almost a decade later.

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Cameron, Simon. "The history and sociology of medical involvement in workers' compensation legislation, 1880-1990 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MPM/09mpmc182.pdf.

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Bakuri, Sarmad. "The Reporting of Supplement Use by Dental Patients on Their Medical History Questionnaire." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3338.

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The Reporting of Supplement Use by Dental Patients on Their Medical History Questionnaire Objectives: The goals of the study were three fold. Estimate the prevalence of supplement use by dental patients. Determine if the design of a medical history form influences the prevalence of supplement use reported. Determine whether or not patients are aware of supplement side effects and interactions with medications. Methods: Patients were randomly allocated to either a standard medical history form or the same form with additional questions about supplement use. After completing the initial forms, a survey containing questions about supplements was filled out by both groups. For investigating differences between groups, logistic regression and analysis of variance were used depending on the type of outcome variable. Results: Two hundred and nine patients participated in the study. The mean number of supplements reported by patients was influenced by the type of health history questionnaire given to the patient. Specifically asking about supplements versus not asking at all resulted in nearly double the number of supplements reported by the patient (mean of 1.53 when asked, 0.76 when not asked, p< 0.0001). Patient age and income were related to number of supplements used per patient. The two oldest age categories (50–65 and >65) reported a mean number of supplements used of 2.82 and 2.72, respectively versus the youngest age group (<30 years old) which reported a mean of 1.05 (p<0.05). The highest income level (>$75,000 per year) reported the lowest number of supplements per patient of 0.56 versus the other income levels (p<0.02), which reported mean supplemental use ranging from 2.28 to 2.71. Additionally, the majority of the subjects (69 %) were not aware of the side effects and interactions of supplements with medications. Conclusion: Patients tend not to report supplement use on the medical history questionnaire unless they are directly asked and the majority of patients are not aware of interactions with medications. Patient income and age have an effect on the frequency of supplement use.

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Hernandez-Saenz, Luz Maria. "Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186479.

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In New Spain, the professionalization of medicine followed the same pattern as in Europe and was prompted by similar intellectual and political factors. As with their European colleagues, the local medical elite of the late eighteenth century was greatly influenced by the Enlightenment, working tirelessly to advance medical science and improve the quality of treatment available to the public. Scientific developments in Europe influenced practitioners in New Spain through local and imported publications as well as through the arrival of a large number of European practitioners. While the Enlightenment played an important role from the scientific and medical points of view, international politics proved crucial to the development of surgery and its rapid rise to a professional level. The intense rivalry among nations prompted Spain to reorganize its armies and consequently, to turn its attention to military surgery. In Mexico, the establishment of formal surgical education and the reorganization of the armies resulted in the arrival of foreign practitioners and the creation of a two tiered system based on nationality. Of equal importance for the initial stages of professionalization was the rapid erosion of traditional social values in the late colonial period. As reflected by the increasing laxity in the enforcement of the limpieza de sangre requirements, race and ancestry as a measure of status were beginning to give way to personal merit. The medical professional gives a unique opportunity to analyze the fascinating world of late colonial Mexico. The hierarchical organization of the profession reflects contemporary society and offers a glance at daily life from the point of view of various socio-economic levels while the relations among its members mirror the complicated relations among the different segments of society. The growing criollo nationalism becomes patent in the attitude of some practitioners, an echo of future and more profound antagonism. From an intellectual point of view, the medical profession illustrates the achievements of local practitioners and pharmacists which have been largely ignored by scholars. Finally, it reflects the last efforts of Spain to reassert control over its colony and its powerlessness to stop the tide of history.

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Power, Helen Joy. "Sir Leonard Rogers FRS (1868-1962) : tropical medicine in the Indian medical service." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326140.

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司徒雅儀 and Ya-yee Szeto. "Medical culture among the scholar-officials in seventeenth century China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31225172.

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Webb, Katherine A. "The development of the medical profession in Manchester 1750-1860." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329770.

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Viniegra, Marco Antonio. "Neoclassical Medicine: Transformations in the Hippocratic Medical Tradition from Galen to the Articella." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11199.

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Legacy, Jessica Lee. "Bodies in the almanac : metaphysical principles in the medieval medical folded almanac." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31439.

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Folded almanacs are fascinating manuscripts that display astrological content relevant to the practice of medicine. However, due to the lack of primary evidence demonstrating the almanac in practice, it is difficult to ascertain their actual use. Medieval Scholars have therefore concentrated on the almanac's sources, materiality and contextual evidence of apparent medical purpose. My thesis examines the metaphysical principles within the folded almanac, which exemplify the micro/macrocosm inherent in medieval astro-medicine. I argue that the folded almanac, as a material object and compilation of medical knowledge, situates the physician, patient and constellations within metaphysical ideas of body, time and space. Using the yet unstudied folded almanac from the National Library of Scotland, Acc 12059.3 (the Borthwick almanac) as a primary model, I demonstrate how this physical object, in dealing with the corporeal body, exhibits the unity of body, time and space. This approach reveals that the folded almanac (1) is a performative object that establishes medical authority, (2) tracks the progress of health and illness using Aristotelian and Thomist concepts of time, (3) maps the intersection of celestial and human bodies onto practical textual spaces. The culmination of these findings illustrates that the folded almanac engaged with a very technical but abstract branch of medieval medicine which sought to explain how, why, when and where illness was manifested, and also operated as an interventional tool for aiding in the restoration of health.

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Smith, Olivia Freundlich. "Lives, letters, bodies : John Locke's medical interactions contextualised." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28166.

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This study offers a close, interdisciplinary reading of several specific instances in which health and sickness were discussed or considered by Locke and his contemporaries. Medical historians have long known that Locke was a medical adviser and practitioner of sorts, and his medical 'cases' have traditionally been scrutinised for details of his medical career and for details of past illnesses and treatments, read against a context of specifically medical thought. In a departure from that tradition, this study presents several of Locke's health-related interactions in their contemporary social contexts, These contexts are not exclusively medical, and it is shown how health issues overlapped with and permeated discussions of land, literature, gender, politics and religion. Focussing on specific micro-historical scenes, this study explores the myriad ways in which health was configured in Locke's world. In this study, we see Locke engaged in presenting the health of a colony in Carolina in America; employed in the management of Anthony Ashley Cooper's festering abscess; writing to the Fletchers of Saltoun about nature-hastening medicines and ignorant practitioners; subduing rumours about Matthew Slade, a mentally unstable scholarly friend; helping Elizabeth Northumberland to describe her searing pains, and more. In this thesis, stories of health from Locke's world are interwoven with similar short scenes of health from his published works to show the reader how Locke himself considered health-related scenes stimulating and illuminating.

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Ghosh, Srabani. "The History of medical and health care systems of North Bengal from 1869-1969." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1337.

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Sauer, Nicholas L. "Disability in Late Imperial Russia: Pathological Metaphors and Medical Orientalism." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1464016404.

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Côté, Stéphanie. "L'implication des Soeurs de la Providence dans le développement de l'Hôtel-Dieu de l'Assomption de Moncton, 1922-1967." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ52008.pdf.

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