Military Medicine and the Making of Race
This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race...
EAN: 9781108797139
Dissection in Classical Antiquity
The first comprehensive history of dissection in classical antiquity. It reveals how the practice...
EAN: 9781009159470
Conquest of Invisible Enemies
In his latest book, science writer and medicinal chemist Jie Jack Li guides readers through the...
EAN: 9780197609859
No Ordinary Deaths
A vibrant, compelling social history of death, dying, and how our ends shape our lives and societies
EAN: 9781800815872
Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950
Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift...
EAN: 9781403985378
New History of Identity
Medical texts provide a powerful means of accessing contemporary perceptions of illness and...
EAN: 9781349428847
Kaspar Hauser
On Whit Monday 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak and hardly able to walk appeared in...
EAN: 9781349427314
Leprosy in Colonial South India
Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic...
EAN: 9781349425303
Sexual Inversion
Sexual Inversion was the first English medical textbook about homosexuality. It had a chequered...
EAN: 9781349283668
History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
They show how practices such as genome mapping, sequence assembly and annotation are as essential...
EAN: 9783031061295
Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986
This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous...
EAN: 9783031057953
Vaccination Wars
This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall....
EAN: 9781804130001
Struggle and Solidarity
This book presents seven key pieces of federal legislation and demonstrates how public...
EAN: 9781615372386
Headache Godfather
"The Headache Godfather" traces the life of Seymour Diamond, MD, who was born in 1925, the son of...
EAN: 9781629145389
Skin Disease and the History of Dermatology
This text is a history of skin disease and a history of dermatology, telling the human historical...
EAN: 9781032226606
In Pursuit of Healthy Environments
In Pursuit of Healthy Environments brings temporal depth to a highly topical issue, the...
EAN: 9780367616243
Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain
Collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading...
EAN: 9780367501822
Consumption and Literature
This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and...
EAN: 9781349286119
Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern...
EAN: 9781349517183
Surgery, Science and Industry
This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for...
EAN: 9781349431816
Outbreak in the Village
Told in an amiable, engaging voice with an expert balance of levity and earnestness, this story...
EAN: 9783030454876
Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World
The interplay between disease and climatic conditions, natural and manmade crises and disasters,...
EAN: 9783030362669
Psychologies in Revolution
This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria...
EAN: 9783030350307
