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
Rise of Fetal and Neonatal Physiology
EAN: 9781493985005
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
Florence Under Siege
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence...
EAN: 9780300196344
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
EAN: 9789402413342
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This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth...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
Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the...
EAN: 9780198796428
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
