history of medical

Contributions of Hippocratic medicine and Plato to today’s debate over health, social determinants and the authority of biomedicine
Susan B Levin

Medical Humanities Jun 2023, 49 (2) 297-307; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012486
John Buchan’s race through life, chased by his only foe—illness
Jill Felicity Durey

Medical Humanities Sep 2023, 49 (3) 468-478; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012585
‘Dirty pigs’ and the xenotransplantation paradox
Gill Haddow

Medical Humanities Dec 2021, 47 (4) 417-424; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012187
Genetics, molar pregnancies and medieval ideas of monstrous births: the lump of flesh in The King of Tars
Natalie Goodison, Deborah J G Mackay, I Karen Temple

Medical Humanities Mar 2019, 45 (1) 2-9; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011387
Sharing a vision: conversation, global outreach and public engagement
Brandy Schillace

Medical Humanities Sep 2018, 44 (3) 145; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011563
A visit to Brookwood Aslyum in the 19th century
Charlotte Cliffe

Medical Humanities Dec 2017, 43 (4) e45; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011316

CLINICAL
- Anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia
  - Other anaesthesia
  - Pain (anaesthesia)
- Cardiovascular medicine
- Cardiovascular medicine
  - Arrhythmias
    - Bradyarrhythmias and heart block
    - Tachyarrhythmias
  - Arrhythmias
  - Cardiomyopathy
  - Cardiomyopathy
  - Congenital heart disease
  - Drugs: cardiovascular system
  - Echocardiography
  - Heart failure
  - Hypertension
  - Interventional cardiology
  - Ischaemic heart disease
  - Ischaemic heart disease
  - Pacing and electrophysiology
  - Valvar diseases
  - Valvar diseases
  - Venous thromboembolism
- Complementary medicine
- Dentistry and oral medicine
- Dermatology
- Diagnostics
- Diagnostics
  - Clinical diagnostic tests
  - Radiology (diagnostics)
  - Surgical diagnostic tests
- Drugs and medicines
- Drugs and medicines
  - Cardiovascular system
  - Contraindications and precautions
  - Drug interactions
  - Drug therapy related to surgery
  - Ear, nose and throat
  - Endocrine system
  - Eye
  - Gastrointestinal system
  - General guidance on prescribing
  - Haematology (drugs and medicines)
  - Immunological products and vaccines
  - Infections
  - Malignant disease and immunosuppression
  - Musculoskeletal and joint disorders
  - Neurology (drugs and medicines)
  - Nutrition
  - Obstetrics, gynaecology and fertility
  - Paediatrics (drugs and medicines)
  - Psychiatry (drugs and medicines)
  - Renal system
  - Respiratory system
  - Skin
  - Urinary and genital tract disorders
- Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology
- Emergency medicine
  - Disaster response
  - Poisoning
  - Resuscitation
  - Trauma
- Emergency medicine
- Endocrinology
- Endocrinology
  - Adrenal disorders
  - Calcium and bone
  - Diabetes
  - Drugs: endocrine system
  - Lipid disorders
  - Metabolic disorders
  - Pituitary disorders
  - Thyroid disease
- Evidence based practice
  - Changing physician behavior
  - Effectiveness of care
  - Guidelines
- Evidence based practice
- Gastroenterology
- Gastroenterology
  - Drugs: gastrointestinal system
  - Endoscopy
  - GI bleeding
    - Angiodysplasia
    - Ulcer
  - GI bleeding
  - Infection
    - Campylobacter, Salmonella, Shigella, Escherichia coli
    - Clostridium difficile
    - Gastroenteritis
    - Giardiasis
    - Helicobacter pylori
    - Parastic worms
  - Infection (gastroenterology)
  - Inflammatory bowel disease
    - Crohn's disease
    - Ulcerative colitis
  - Inflammatory bowel disease
  - Liver disease
    - Alcoholic liver disease
    - Cirrhosis
    - Hepatitis B
    - Hepatitis C
    - Hepatitis other
    - Nonalcoholic steatosis
  - Liver disease
  - Neurogastroenterology
  - Neurogastroenterology
    - Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction
    - Constipation
    - Diarrhoea
    - Dyspepsia
    - Gastric emptying disorders
    - Irritable bowel syndrome
    - Oesophageal dysmotility
  - Oesophagus
    - Gastro-oesophageal reflux
  - Oesophagus
  - Pancreas and biliary tract
  - Pancreatitis
  - Portal hypertension
  - Small intestine
    - Coeliac disease
    - Gastrointestinal hormones
    - Malabsorption
  - Small intestine
  - Stomach and duodenum
- General practice / family medicine
- Genetics
  - Clinical genetics
  - Cytogenetics
  - Genetic screening / counselling
  - Molecular genetics
- Genetics
- Geriatric medicine
- Geriatric medicine
  - Elder abuse
  - End of life decisions (geriatric medicine)
  - Long term care
  - Psychogeriatrics
- Haematology (incl blood transfusion)
- Immunology (including allergy)
- Infectious diseases
  - Bone and joint infections
  - Drugs: infectious diseases
  - Emerging infectious diseases
    - Bird flu
  - Foodborne infections
  - Hepatitis and other GI infections
  - HIV/AIDS
  - Influenza
  - Meningitis
  - Nosocomial infections
  - Otitis
  - Pneumonia (infectious disease)
  - TB and other respiratory infections
  - Travel medicine
  - Tropical medicine (infectious diseases)
  - Urinary tract infections
  - Vaccination / immunisation
- Infectious diseases
- Intensive care
  - Adult intensive care
  - Mechanical ventilation
  - Neonatal intensive care
  - Paediatric intensive care
- Intensive care
- Neurology (1)
- Neurology
  - Brain stem / cerebellum
  - Cerebral palsy
  - Coma and raised intracranial pressure
  - Cranial nerves
  - Dementia
  - Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric)
  - Epilepsy and seizures
  - Headache (including migraine)
  - Hydrocephalus
  - Infection (neurology)
  - Motor neurone disease
  - Movement disorders (other than Parkinsons)
  - Multiple sclerosis
  - Muscle disease
  - Neuroimaging
  - Neurological injury
  - Neuromuscular disease
  - Neurooncology
  - Pain (neurology)
  - Parkinson's disease
  - Peripheral nerve disease
  - Sleep disorders (neurology)
  - Spinal cord
  - Stroke
  - Trauma CNS / PNS
  - Variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
- Nursing
  - Case management
  - Chronic disease / disability nursing
  - Community nursing / community based care
  - Family nursing
  - Home care nursing
  - Medical-surgical nursing - acute
  - Perioperative care
  - School nursing
  - Tobacco control counselling
- Nursing
- Nutrition and metabolism
- Nutrition and metabolism
  - Childhood nutrition
  - Diet
  - Malnutrition
  - Obesity (nutrition)
  - Vitamins and supplements
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
  - Abortion
  - Cervical cancer
  - Cervical screening
  - Contraception
  - Domestic violence
  - Drugs: obstetrics and gynaecology
  - Family planning
  - Incontinence
  - Menopause (including HRT)
  - Pregnancy
  - Reproductive medicine
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Oncology
  - Breast cancer
  - Cancer: dermatological
  - Cancer: small intestine
  - Chemotherapy
  - CNS cancer
  - Colon cancer
  - Endocrine cancer
  - Gastric cancer
  - Gene therapy
  - Gynecological cancer
  - Head and neck cancer
  - Hepatic cancer
  - Lung cancer (oncology)
  - Oesophageal cancer
  - Paediatric oncology
  - Pancreatic cancer
  - Prevention
  - Prostate cancer
  - Radiotherapy
  - Respiratory cancer
  - Screening (oncology)
  - Urological cancer
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Ophthalmology
  - Angle
  - Anterior chamber
  - Choroid
  - Ciliary body
  - Conjunctiva
  - Cornea
  - Eye (globe)
  - Eye Diseases
  - Eye Lids
  - Glaucoma
  - Hereditary eye disease
  - Intraocular pressure
  - Iris
  - Lacrimal drainage
  - Lacrimal gland
  - Lens and zonules
  - Macula
  - Muscles
  - Ocular surface
  - Ophthalmologic surgical procedures
  - Optic nerve
  - Optics and refraction
  - Orbit
  - Pupil
  - Retina
  - Sclera and apisclera
  - Tears
  - Vision
  - Visual (cerebral) cortex
  - Visual development
  - Vitreous
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
- Paediatrics
  - Adolescent health
  - Bilirubin disorders
  - Child abuse
  - Child and adolescent psychiatry (paedatrics)
  - Child health
  - Childhood nutrition (paediatrics)
  - Congenital disorders
  - Developmental paediatrics
  - Failure to thrive
  - Infant health
  - Infant nutrition (including breastfeeding)
  - Neonatal and paediatric intensive care
  - Neonatal health
  - SIDS
- Palliative care
- Palliative care
  - End of life decisions (palliative care)
  - Hospice
  - Pain (palliative care)
- Pathology
  - Chemical pathology
  - Cytopathology
  - Histopathology
  - Inflammation
  - Microbiology
  - Microscopy
  - Molecular biology
  - Morbid anatomy / surgical pathology
  - Neuropathology
  - Virology
- Pathology
- Pharmacology and therapeutics
  - Clinical trials (pharmacology)
  - Dosage and administration
  - Drug interactions
  - Drug misuse (including addiction)
  - Efficacy
  - Formulation
  - Licensing / marketing authorisation
  - Medicines regulation
  - Pharmacodynamics
  - Pharmacokinetics
  - Safety
  - Therapeutic indications
  - Toxicology
  - Unwanted effects / adverse reactions
  - Warnings, precautions and contraindications
- Pharmacology and therapeutics
- Prison medicine
- Psychiatry
  - Adjustment disorders
  - Alcohol-related disorders
    - Alcohol dependence
    - Alcohol intoxication
    - Alcohol withdrawal delirium
    - Alcohol-induced amnestic disorder (Korsak's syndrome)
  - Alcohol-related disorders
  - Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD)
    - Agoraphobia
    - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
    - Other phobias
    - Panic disorder
    - Post-traumatic stress disorder
    - Social phobia
  - Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD)
  - Child and adolescent psychiatry
    - Asperger syndrome
    - Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    - Autism
    - Conduct disorder
  - Child and adolescent psychiatry
  - Delirium
  - Drugs misuse (including addiction)
  - Drugs misuse (including addiction)
    - Substance dependence
    - Substance intoxication delirium
    - Substance withdrawal
    - Substance-induced psychotic disorder
  - Drugs: psychiatry
  - Eating disorders
  - Eating disorders
    - Anorexia nervosa
    - Bulimia nervosa
  - Impulse control disorders
    - Pathological gambling
    - Trichotillomania
  - Impulse control disorders
  - Memory disorders
    - Dementia due to medical condition
    - Dementia, Alzheimer's type
    - Dementia, Pick's disease
    - Dementia, vascular
  - Memory disorders (psychiatry)
  - Mood disorders (including depression)
    - Bipolar disorder
    - Depressive disorder
  - Mood disorders (including depression)
  - Personality disorders
  - Personality disorders
    - Antisocial personality disorder
    - Avoidant personality disorder
    - Borderline personality disorder
    - Dependent personality disorder
    - Histrionic personality disorder
    - Schizoid personality disorder
    - Schizotypal personality disorder
  - Psychiatry of old age
  - Psychotherapy
    - Cagnitive behavioural psychotherapy
    - Dynamic psychotherapy
    - Other psychotherapies
  - Psychotherapy
  - Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
    - Delusional disorder
    - Schizophrenia spectrum
  - Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
  - Sexual and gender disorders
  - Sexual and gender disorders
    - Gender identity disorder
    - Paedophilia
    - Paraphilia
  - Sleep disorders
    - Primary hypersomnia
    - Primary insomnia
  - Sleep disorders
  - Somatoform disorders
  - Somatoform disorders
    - Conversion disorder
    - Dissociative disorder
    - Factitious disorder
    - Hypochondriasis
  - Suicide (psychiatry)
- Psychiatry (1)
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Rehabilitation medicine
  - Disability
  - Other rehabilitative therapies
  - Physiotherapy
- Renal medicine
- Renal medicine
  - Acute renal failure
  - Chronic renal failure
  - Dialysis
  - Fluid electrolyte and acid-base disturbances
  - Nephrotic syndrome
  - Proteinurea
  - Renal transplantation
- Respiratory medicine
  - Adult respiratory distress syndrome
  - Airway biology
  - Asthma
  - Bronchiolitis
  - Bronchitis
  - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
  - Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of lung
  - Cystic fibrosis
  - Drugs: respiratory system
  - Fungal lung diseases
  - Hemoptysis
  - Interstitial lung disease
  - Lung abscess
  - Lung cancer (respiratory medicine)
  - Lung function
  - Lung haemorrhage
  - Lung infection
  - Lung neoplasms
  - Mechanical ventilation
  - Meconium aspiration
  - Parasitic lung disease
  - Pneumonia (respiratory medicine)
  - Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
  - Pulmonary embolism
  - Pulmonary emphysema
  - Pulmonary endometriosis
  - Pulmonary eosinophilia
  - Pulmonary hypertension
  - Pulmonary oedema
  - Pulmonary plasma cell granuloma
  - Pulmonary veno-occulsive disease
  - Sleep disorders (respiratory medicine)
  - Tobacco related disease
  - Tuberculosis
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Rheumatology
  - Ankylosing spondylitis
  - Biological agents
  - Connective tissue disease
  - Degenerative joint disease
  - Drugs: musculoskeletal and joint diseases
  - Fibromyalgia
  - Musculoskeletal syndromes
  - Osteoarthritis
  - Osteoporosis
  - Rheumatoid arthritis
  - Sjogren's syndrome
  - Systemic lupus erythematosus
  - Vascularitis
- Sexual health
- Sexual health
  - Candidiasis
  - Condoms
  - Genital ulcers
  - Hepatitis (sexual health)
  - HIV / AIDS
  - Pelvic inflammatory disease
  - Prostatitis
  - Sex workers
  - Sexual and gender disorders
  - Sexual dysfunction
  - Sexual transmitted infections (bacterial)
  - Sexual transmitted infections (bacterial)
    - Chlamydia
    - Gonorrhoea
    - Other
    - Syphilis
  - Sexual transmitted infections (viral)
  - Sexual transmitted infections (viral)
  - Urethritis
  - Vulvovaginal disorders
- Sports and exercise medicine
  - Conditions
  - Orthopaedic manipulation
  - Physical injuries
  - Physiotherapy
  - Procedures
  - Sports
    - Basketball
    - Boxing
    - Cycling
    - Football (soccer)
    - Golf
    - Gymnastics
    - Ice hockey
    - Kayaking
    - Martial arts
    - Rugby
    - Running
    - Snow sports
    - Squash
    - Triathalons
    - Volleyball
    - Weight training
- Sports and exercise medicine
- Surgery
  - Breast surgery
  - Cardiothoracic surgery
  - Gastrointestinal surgery
  - General surgery
  - Neurosurgery
  - Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  - Orthopaedic and trauma surgery
  - Otolaryngology / ENT
  - Plastic and reconstructive surgery
  - Surgical oncology
  - Transplantation
  - Urological surgery
  - Vascular surgery
- Surgery
- Urology
- Urology
  - Circumcision
  - Hematuria
  - Prostate
  - Urinary tract infections
NON-CLINICAL
- Communication
- Epidemiology
  - Clinical trials (epidemiology)
  - Epidemiologic studies
  - Epidemiologic studies
  - Population trends
  - Screening (epidemiology)
  - Survey techniques
  - Therapeutic trials
  - Time-to-event methods
- Epidemiology
- Ethics
- Ethics
  - Artificial and donated transplantation
  - Assisted dying
  - Bioethics
  - Clinical ethics
  - Codes of professional ethics
  - Competing interests (ethics)
  - Confidentiality
  - Drug issues
  - End of life decisions (ethics)
  - Ethics of abortion
  - Ethics of reproduction
  - Experiments in vivo
  - Informed consent
  - Research and publication ethics
  - Sexuality / gender
- Ethnic studies
- Health economics
- Health informatics
  - Information management
  - Internet
  - IT
  - Telemedicine
- Health informatics
- Health policy
- Health service research
- Journalology
- Legal and forensic medicine
- Medical careers
- Medical careers
  - Continuous professional development
  - Getting and changing jobs (including job descriptions and contracts)
  - Professional conduct and regulation
- Medical education
  - History taking and the physical examination
  - Postgraduate
  - Undergraduate
- Medical education (1)
- Medical humanities
  - Culture, health and illness
  - Education, medical
  - History of medicine
  - Medical anthropology
  - Music and medicine
  - Philosophy of medicine
  - Politics and medicine
  - Psychology and medicine
  - Quality of life
  - Religion and spirituality
  - Sex and sexuality
  - Theory of medical knowledge
  - Value enquiry
- Medical humanities (1)
- Medical management
- Medical management
  - Doctors' morale and well being
  - Medical error/ patient safety
  - Quality improvement
- Occupational and environmental medicine
  - Disease and health outcomes
  - Disease and health outcomes
  - Exposures
  - Workers and industries at risk
  - Workers and industries at risk
- Occupational and environmental medicine
- Patients
- Public health
- Public health
  - Abuse (child, partner, elder)
  - Air pollution
  - Alcohol
  - Drug misuse
  - Environmental issues
  - Health education
  - Health of indigenous peoples
  - Health promotion
  - Homicide
  - Housing and health
  - Human rights
  - Injury
  - Injury diagnoses
    - Burns (diagnoses)
    - Fractures
    - Head injury
    - Spinal cord injury
  - Injury location
    - Workplace injury
  - Injury mechanisms
    - Burns
    - Drowning
    - Pedestrian injury
    - Poisoning/Injestion
    - Recreation/Sports injury
    - Suicide/Self harm (injury)
    - Violence
  - Obesity (public health)
  - Screening (public health)
  - Sexual health (public health)
  - Smoking
  - Social conditions and disease
  - Suicide (public health)
  - Urban health
  - Vaccination programs
  - Violence (other)
  - Violence against women
- Smoking and tobacco
  - Economics of tobacco use and control
  - Health effects of tobacco use
  - Smoking cessation
  - Tobacco use
  - Tobacco use (youth)
- Smoking and tobacco
- Sociology
- Statistics and research methods
  - Qualitative research
  - Quantitative research
- Statistics and research methods
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