Health and Efficiency
Under this new ‘science of work’ that emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939 fatigue was seen...
EAN: 9781625346490
Colonising Disability
Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and...
EAN: 9781108833912
Scientific Revolution
A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the...
EAN: 9781639361472
The Wine-Dark Sea Within
A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role
EAN: 9781541600669
Architecture and Landscape of Health
The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to...
EAN: 9781032237640
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London
This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in...
EAN: 9781032235868
Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies
Ketogenic therapies have treated epilepsy for 100 years. Now, broader clinical applications of...
EAN: 9780197501207
Mekong Medicine
Dr Richard Carlson was an obstetrics-gynecology resident in inner city LA when he received his...
EAN: 9781476687896
Nursing, Policy and Politics in Twentieth-century Chile
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with nurses and governmental...
EAN: 9783030908348
Madness on Trial
This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year...
EAN: 9781526163790
Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions
The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national...
EAN: 9781526163462
Eleventh Plague
Written in a lively and compelling style, this book explains the hidden relationship between...
EAN: 9780197607183
Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School
Each chapter focuses on a different bodily fluid – saliva, blood, urine, milk, sweat, semen – to...
EAN: 9783030515430
Invisible Light
The book is a developed history of the radiological sciences – covering the back-story to...
EAN: 9780367344269
Phantom Plague
The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its...
EAN: 9781541768468
Medieval Military Medicine
A realistic, in-depth review of the methods used to treat the casualties of violence in the...
EAN: 9781526754745
Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present
This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry,...
EAN: 9780367541231
