From Melancholia to Depression
This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was...
EAN: 9783030548018
Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870–2000
Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical treatises, religious texts, public...
EAN: 9783030246914
Madness and Genetic Determinism
The author critically analyzes PG evidence in support of genetic claims which, given the lack of...
EAN: 9783030218683
Case Studies in Society, Religion, and Bioethics
EAN: 9783030441494
Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries
This book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of...
EAN: 9783030376963
Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period
EAN: 9783030393748
Psychologies in Revolution
This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria...
EAN: 9783030350277
Psycho-Politics between the World Wars
This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century...
EAN: 9783030327019
Making Medicine a Business
This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business,...
EAN: 9789811340819
Preventing Mental Illness
Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to...
EAN: 9783030075224
Vaccination in America
In the first half of the twentieth century, in the face of widespread resistance to vaccines,...
EAN: 9783030071790
Medical Stigmata
This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s...
EAN: 9789811348129
Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690–1945
This book analyzes how women’s bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by...
EAN: 9783030103125
White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916–1960
This book traces the history of the London ‘white drugs’ (opiate and cocaine) subculture from the...
EAN: 9783030069131
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay
The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and...
EAN: 9783030068189
Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the...
EAN: 9783030065584
Great Secret
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's...
EAN: 9781611854541
Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt
This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pharmacy and Medicine...
EAN: 9781789697704
Rinderpest Campaigns
This book uses the history of the struggle to eradicate rinderpest to expand our understanding of...
EAN: 9781108434065
Mosquito Soldiers
By focusing on two specific diseases rather than a broad array of Civil War medical topics, this...
EAN: 9780807176955
Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes...
EAN: 9780197574430
Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
The first ever monograph in English on an important section of the population of the Roman world...
EAN: 9781316615010
Forty Days
This book provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the...
EAN: 9781032050348
