Birmingham Parish Workhouse, 1730-1840
This book is the first attempt to write a history of the workhouse and the ancillary welfare...
EAN: 9781912260140
Royal Art of Poison
The story of poison is the story of power... The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining...
EAN: 9780715653142
Dogs in Health Care
Over the years, certain dogs have improved and advanced the field of health care in myriad ways....
EAN: 9781476673943
Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology
This book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters, Edith and Florence Stoney,...
EAN: 9783030165604
Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide
The story of the one woman who, against all odds, stopped Thalidomide in its tracks because it...
EAN: 9780750991919
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was...
EAN: 9783319859811
Healers and Empires in Global History
This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety...
EAN: 9783030154905
Heart: A History
A doctor’s inspiring obsession with the heart, combining history, gripping scenes from the...
EAN: 9781786075734
Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate...
EAN: 9780367138707
Human Medical Experimentation
Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human...
EAN: 9781610698979
Border Medicine
Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital...
EAN: 9781479834785
Bedlam
A new paperback edition of Paul Chambers' critically-acclaimed Victorian history
EAN: 9780750991483
Professionalizing Medicine
A biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American...
EAN: 9781476676364
Archaeology of Lunacy
This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain...
EAN: 9781526126498
Medicine and Justice
In bringing together for the first time four groups of specialists - doctors, coroners, lawyers...
EAN: 9781472454126
Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe
This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe...
EAN: 9781138361690
Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance
EAN: 9783319887579
Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in...
EAN: 9783319879833
Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
EAN: 9781349957774
Circulation of Penicillin in Spain
This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s –...
EAN: 9783319888293
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
EAN: 9789402413342