Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950
This book sheds fresh light on the anti-vice initiatives of various actors, organizations and...
EAN: 9781107500754
Values in Psychological Science
This book examines the role of values in psychology, beginning with an acknowledgment that values...
EAN: 9781316500972
Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society
This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian...
EAN: 9783030273347
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century
This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and...
EAN: 9783030272746
Migrant Architects of the NHS
Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the...
EAN: 9781526145017
Translationality
This book weaves a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through Medical Humanities, and...
EAN: 9780367410735
Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains
This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts...
EAN: 9783030267940
Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930
This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration...
EAN: 9783030263294
Nurses and Nursing
Susan Cohen takes us on a nostalgic journey through the history of nurses and nursing in Britain,...
EAN: 9781445683287
Just the Tonic
Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the...
EAN: 9781842466896
Plague and the End of Antiquity
Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this...
EAN: 9780521718974
Comrades in Health
Brings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health...
EAN: 9780813561202
Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Based chiefly on material from primary sources, this book describes some technological advances...
EAN: 9780521282239
Medicine and the Five Senses
From the early days of medical practice, through to the modern age of the CAT scanner, doctors...
EAN: 9780521611985
Battle-Scarred
Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil...
EAN: 9781526144850
Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment
This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century...
EAN: 9781349932702
Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the Twentieth Century
This book discusses the pandemic of coronary heart disease occurring in North America, western...
EAN: 9781138569508
Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968
For the first time in the study of history of colonial and post-colonial medicine, Health and...
EAN: 9781138867543
Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and...
EAN: 9781138862258
Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the...
EAN: 9781848934269
Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
The most compelling aspects of American Civil War is the story of Civil War medicine - the...
EAN: 9780765611710
Oral History, Health and Welfare
This book discusses the significance of oral history to the development of health and welfare...
EAN: 9781138868250
