From Nursing Clio by Rocio Gomez: By tucking themselves away in the corners of beds and the folds of clothes, insects have long evolved alongside humans. Mites, ticks, fleas, bedbugs, lice—they all feast happily on blood, leaving humans with the… Read More ›
History of Medicine
The Devastation of Peace: Otilia Noeckel and the Army Nurse Corps after the Great War
From Nursing Clio by Evan P. Sullivan “I just adore the work I am doing right now. I am on a dressing team with another nurse and a surgeon. We dress wounds almost all day long. Today we did sixty…. Read More ›
Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist
This is the Top Ten Social History of American Medicine Booklists. First, why did we leave Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, 1984) off this Top Ten list? It is perhaps the best known American medical… Read More ›