Concepts
Ideas, theories, and therapeutic practices across the history of Western medicine.
Acedia
64deep
Adaptogen
11moderate
African Diaspora Healing
56deep
African Traditional Medicine
164deep
Alchemy
88deep
Alterative
21strong
American Gynecology
37strong
American Medicine
137deep
Amor Hereos
47deep
Anatomy
88deep
Ancient Egyptian Medicine
96deep
Animism
25strong
Anorexia Nervosa
17moderate
Anti-Psychiatry
92deep
Antipsychotic Medication
54deep
Antisepsis
39strong
Archetypal Leaf
81deep
Archeus
7
Asylum
78deep
Atomism
18moderate
Autonomy
25strong
Ayurvedic Medicine
78deep
Bacteriology
30strong
Bad Faith
14moderate
Basic Anxiety
21strong
Being-in-the-World
90deep
Beneficence
25strong
Bioethics
62deep
Biological Normativity
37strong
Biological Psychiatry
100deep
Biophilia
15moderate
Black Bile
42deep
Bloodletting
43deep
Botanical Medicine
29strong
Buddhist Monastic Medicine
62deep
Calomel (Mercurous Chloride)
43deep
Care of the Self
30strong
Cell Theory
26strong
Cellular Pathology
23strong
Chemical Imbalance Theory
45deep
Childhood Health
9
Chinese Medicine
194deep
Chiropractic
27strong
Cholera
89deep
Christianity and Medicine
122deep
Chronic Illness
70deep
Circulation of the Blood
90deep
Classical Homeopathy
29strong
Clinical Gaze
36strong
Clinical Judgment
51deep
Clinical Observation
92deep
Collective Effervescence
10moderate
Colonial Medicine
116deep
Consciousness
55deep
Contagion
59deep
Counter-Reformation Medicine
47deep
Cowpox
65deep
Crisis Doctrine
22strong
Cultural Consultation
160deep
Culture-Bound Syndromes
79deep
Death and Medicine
6
Death Instinct
32strong
Degeneracy Theory
61deep
Delicate Empiricism
37strong
Depression
124deep
Depressive Position
20strong
Diagnosis
124deep
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
144deep
Dian Kuang (Madness in Chinese Medicine)
26strong
Dietetics
46deep
Disciplinary Power
23strong
Disease Classification
92deep
Dissection and Anatomy
65deep
Doctrine of Signatures
14moderate
Domestic Medicine
32strong
Dramaturgical Model
72deep
Eclectic Medicine
132deep
Eclecticism
33strong
Embodiment
37strong
Embryology
43deep
Empiricism (in Medicine)
58deep
Empiricism in Medicine
29strong
Enlightenment Medicine
64deep
Epidemic Disease
34strong
Epidemiology
162deep
Epilepsy
163deep
Epistemology
36strong
Ethnobotany
27strong
Ethnopsychiatry
60deep
Eugenics
53deep
Euthanasia
17moderate
Evacuative Therapy
43deep
Evidence-Based Medicine
95deep
Evil Eye
98deep
Existential Psychiatry
72deep
Exorcism
46deep
Experimental Medicine
38strong
Experimental Method in Medicine
107deep
Experimental Physiology
61deep
Explanatory Models
14moderate
Fermentation
7
Fever
62deep
Five Spirits (Wu Shen)
81deep
Folk Medicine
126deep
Four Elements
21strong
Galenic Medicine
168deep
Galenism
23strong
Gender and Medicine
9
General Adaptation Syndrome
39strong
Germ Theory
85deep
Goethean Science
65deep
Greco-Arab Medicine
91deep
Health
104deep
Herbal Actions
25strong
Herbal Medicine
97deep
Heroic Medicine
56deep
Hierarchy of Needs
15moderate
Hikikomori
52deep
Hippocratic Gynecology
90deep
Hippocratic Medicine
202deep
Hippocratic Oath Tradition
124deep
Historical Demography
11moderate
History of Anatomy
37strong
History of Pharmacology
67deep
History of Surgery
32strong
Holism
73deep
Homeopathy
102deep
Homeostasis
42deep
Hospital Medicine
53deep
Hospitalism
18moderate
Humoral Theory
105deep
Hydropathy
11moderate
Hysteria
73deep
Iatrochemistry
32strong
Iatromechanism
35strong
Illness and Disease Distinction
44deep
Illness Narrative
75deep
Illuminationism
25strong
Informed Consent
31strong
Innate Heat
36strong
Insanity
190deep
Irritability
45deep
Islamic Medicine
366deep
Islamic Philosophy
88deep
Kalam
42deep
Laboratory Medicine
65deep
Life-World
17moderate
Lobelia (Lobelia inflata)
29strong
Logotherapy
70deep
Lovesickness
58deep
Madness as Dysfunction
48deep
Madness as Strategy
53deep
Materia Medica
108deep
Materialism
59deep
Mechanical Philosophy
64deep
Mechanism (Philosophy)
42deep
Medical Anthropology
86deep
Medical Astrology
18moderate
Medical Authority
35strong
Medical Education (History of)
98deep
Medical Education Reform
45deep
Medical Epistemology
38strong
Medical Ethics (History of)
213deep
Medical Experimentation on Human Subjects
117deep
Medical Freedom
20strong
Medical Historiography
79deep
Medical Licensing
47deep
Medical Pluralism
77deep
Medical Police
20strong
Medical Reform
41deep
Medical Regulation
39strong
Medicalization
166deep
Medieval Medicine
14moderate
Melancholia
275deep
Melancholy
34strong
Mesmerism
37strong
Mesopotamian Medicine
69deep
Methodist Sect (Medicine)
56deep
Miasma Theory
54deep
Midwifery
176deep
Migraine
148deep
Milieu Intérieur
10moderate
Military Medicine
60deep
Modernity and Medicine
9
Molecular Biology
42deep
Monastic Medicine
91deep
Moral Therapy
29strong
Moral Treatment
31strong
Morita Therapy
107deep
Morphology
25strong
Nahua Body Concepts (Tonalli, Teyolia, Ihiyotl)
48deep
Naikan Therapy
16moderate
Narrative Medicine
66deep
Native American Medicine
37strong
Natural Philosophy
81deep
Naturopathy
27strong
Naturphilosophie
52deep
Nervous System
19moderate
Neurasthenia
44deep
Neurosis
30strong
Non-Elite Healing
38strong
Nonmaleficence
17moderate
Normal and Pathological
56deep
Normalization
36strong
Nosology
93deep
Nostalgia
88deep
Object Relations Theory
63deep
Occupational Health
7
Oral History in Medicine
7
Osteopathy
161deep
Panopticon
12moderate
Paradigm
38strong
Paranoid-Schizoid Position
20strong
Pathological Anatomy
35strong
Pharmacology (History of)
85deep
Phenomenology
36strong
Phenomenology of Illness
141deep
Philosophy of Medicine
34strong
Phrenology
13moderate
Physic Garden
11moderate
Physician-Patient Relationship
47deep
Physiological Medicine
29strong
Physiomedicalism
33strong
Placebo Effect
22strong
Plague
88deep
Plant Metamorphosis
77deep
Pneuma
98deep
Poliomyelitis
108deep
Political Economy of Health
8
Pollution Beliefs
114deep
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
24strong
Preventive Medicine (History of)
36strong
Professionalization
54deep
Prognosis
64deep
Projective Identification
17moderate
Prophetic Medicine
17moderate
Psychoanalysis
122deep
Psychosomatic Medicine
60deep
Psychotherapy
50deep
Public Health
199deep
Puerperal Fever
22strong
Pulse Diagnosis
50deep
Quarantine
35strong
Race and Medicine
117deep
Randomized Controlled Trial
38strong
Rational Medicine
34strong
Rationalism
35strong
Reductionism
50deep
Regimen
51deep
Ritual Healing
87deep
Roman Medicine
87deep
Romanticism and Medicine
32strong
Sacred and Profane
13moderate
Salernitan Medicine
71deep
Salutogenesis
39strong
Sanitary Reform
48deep
Schizophrenia
124deep
Scholastic Medicine
60deep
Scientific Medicine
57deep
Scientific Method
25strong
Scientific Revolution
95deep
Self Psychology
35strong
Self-Actualization
70deep
Shamanism
55deep
Sick Role
46deep
Six Non-Naturals
27strong
Slavery and Medicine
60deep
Smallpox
86deep
Social Determinants of Health
66deep
Social Medicine
64deep
Soul
64deep
Specific Diagnosis
24strong
Specific Medication
65deep
Spirit Possession
106deep
Spontaneous Generation
18moderate
Stigma
46deep
Stress
135deep
Structural Violence
16moderate
Suffering
31strong
Sufism
33strong
Surgery
98deep
Syphilis
45deep
Teleology in Medicine
28strong
Temperament
61deep
Textual Transmission
65deep
The Civilizing Process
87deep
The Columbian Exchange
79deep
Therapeutic Nihilism
35strong
Theriac
42deep
Thomsonianism
31strong
Total Institution
24strong
Totemism
15moderate
Translation Movement
199deep
Tuberculosis
36strong
Typhus
41deep
Unani Medicine
67deep
Urpflanze
10moderate
Vaccination
42deep
Virtue Ethics
29strong
Vis Medicatrix Naturae
79deep
Vital Force
64deep
Vital Normativity
27strong
Vital Statistics
74deep
Vitalism
145deep
Vivisection
42deep
Wandering Womb
32strong
Ways of Knowing
31strong
Witchcraft and Medicine
146deep
Women in Medicine
107deep
X-ray Crystallography
12moderate
Zazen
56deep
Zen Buddhism
51deep