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
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
Skilful Physician
This book, The Skilful Physician, is a collection of guidelines for maintaining one's health plus...
EAN: 9789057025327
Risks of Medical Innovation
Presenting a new way of thinking about the risks of medical innovation, this volume considers the...
EAN: 9781138867949
Health and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
EAN: 9781138836150
Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700
A study that offers readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century...
EAN: 9780754664529
Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia
This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine...
EAN: 9781138816893
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two...
EAN: 9780415758321
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia
Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of...
EAN: 9781138784796
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830
The first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England, this book...
EAN: 9780415759182
