Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
First published in 1965. In 1865, a woman first obtained a legal qualification in this country as...
EAN: 9781138394117
Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850
First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers...
EAN: 9781138391369
Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880–1945
This book looks at how the English workplace changed through a greater awareness of germs from...
EAN: 9781138368514
Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain
Collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading...
EAN: 9781138607712
Biological Identity
The book investigates the question of biological identity from the perspectives of metaphysics...
EAN: 9781138479180
Lincoln's Jewish Spy
Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr Issachar Zacharie was the preeminent foot...
EAN: 9781476680460
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in...
EAN: 9781138571129
Cholera
A fresh approach to the history of Victorian Britain and the consequences of cholera for...
EAN: 9781526781819
Not of Woman Born
Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical...
EAN: 9781501740473
Bodily Subjects
Historical understandings of gender and health that raise important questions about how health...
EAN: 9780773544154
36 Steps on the Road to Medicare
The history of universal hospitalization and its gradual development into medicare.
EAN: 9780773542860
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
EAN: 9789463724517
Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages
This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the...
EAN: 9789462983373
Small Matters
An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.
EAN: 9780773541337
From Pathology to Public Sphere
How do deaf people communicate? A history of the German deaf movement from education by means of...
EAN: 9783837621198
War Against Smallpox
Michael Bennett offers the first global history of the spread of vaccination during the...
EAN: 9780521765671
War Against Smallpox
Michael Bennett offers the first global history of the spread of vaccination during the...
EAN: 9780521147880
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: 9781138601598
Galen
This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his...
EAN: 9780367357221
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal
This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly...
EAN: 9781526143174
British Anti-Psychiatrists
This book explores the work of the British anti-psychiatric group through its social and...
EAN: 9780367885373
