John Galen Howard and the University of California

Galen develops a robustly aetiological approach to diagnosis and therapy which centres on the differentiation of pain perceptions throughout the body. He develops a specific defini...

Galen was part of the urban, Hellenic, leisured class and culture that produced the Second Sophistic. In the regimen he prescribes for a healthy way of life, and in his stories abo...

With a land mass one and half times larger than the United Kingdom, a population of more than thirty million, and an economy that would rank sixth among world nations, the history ...

This chapter examines the new commander in the Illinois and Missouri territories—Brigadier General Benjamin Howard, a native Kentuckian. Although no professional soldier, in his yo...

The book discusses the representations of civilization and barbarism considering the narratives of Conan Cycles by Robert Ervin Howard. The adventures of the character Conan the Ba...

Chapter 7 discusses neurological diseases and emergencies, including headache, transient loss of consciousness, states of impaired consciousness, the dementias, gait and disturbanc...

This chapter reviews Anna Howard Shaw's life and accomplishments, and presents some final thoughts. The author says that over the years of researching Anna Howard Shaw, she was dri...