African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe
Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the...
EAN: 9781526135476
Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
This book proposes various ways of conceptualizing the body and of examining its relationship to...
EAN: 9780367671242
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire
As the Spanish empire grew, cultural ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex,...
EAN: 9780367669225
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period,...
EAN: 9780367667283
Urban History of The Plague
As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every...
EAN: 9780367666842
Madness, Medicine and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England
This book explores how madness was defined and diagnosed as a condition of the mind in the Middle...
EAN: 9780367661977
Cultures of Healing
This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring...
EAN: 9780367661724
Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal
This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary...
EAN: 9780367643263
Intellectual Disability
This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of...
EAN: 9781526151643
Defining Documents in World History: Plagues, Pandemics, and Public Health
Plagues and pandemics are a part of global history, from the biblical ""plague of locusts"" to...
EAN: 9781642657333
Accounting for Health
Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of...
EAN: 9781526135162
Hidden Histories of the Dead
This discipline-redefining study of secretive British medical research cultures after World War...
EAN: 9781108484091
Disease, Disaster and Death in Mid-Tudor England
EAN: 9781409424161
Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of...
EAN: 9781108404198
Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and medicine, this volume...
EAN: 9781138286368
Stacking the Coffins
A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic’s effects on an Ireland where normal patterns...
EAN: 9781526154354
Reproduction
This first history of reproduction from antiquity to the present day defines the field for the...
EAN: 9781107658370
Origins of AIDS
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and...
EAN: 9781108720397
