Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion
This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds...
EAN: 9783319874319
Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania
This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth...
EAN: 9781493979066
History of Prostate Cancer
This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and...
EAN: 9781349739387
Germ of an Idea
Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea...
EAN: 9781349575589
Critical History of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century...
EAN: 9781349552269
Fragmented Feminism
In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical...
EAN: 9781138384866
Making the Monster
A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
EAN: 9781472933768
Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
This book proposes various ways of conceptualizing the body and of examining its relationship to...
EAN: 9780367209551
Feeling the Strain
By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which...
EAN: 9781526123299
Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy
This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood,...
EAN: 9783030109158
X-ray Contrast Agent Technology
This book documents the fascinating history of radiological techniques that use contrast agents....
EAN: 9781138351646
Medieval Bodies
A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from...
EAN: 9781781256800
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Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders
This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case...
EAN: 9783030061029
Death Is All Around Us
In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high...
EAN: 9781496213440
HIV Survivors in Sydney
Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early...
EAN: 9783030051013
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden,...
EAN: 9781472433961
Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives
Written by two anaesthetists, one British and one American, this unique book focuses on the...
EAN: 9781853156748
Milk of Paradise
A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since...
EAN: 9781447286110
