Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the...
EAN: 9783319929637
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
Thomas Cowan brings to light the various ways in which scientists and government officials work...
EAN: 9781603587778
Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes
As the authors of this book note, Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting...
EAN: 9781138329980
Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine
This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately,...
EAN: 9781108468633
Racial Divide in American Medicine
Documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African American citizens and...
EAN: 9781496817686
Time-Release History of the Opioid Epidemic
From the isolation and development of the first alkaloids with morphine that relieved pain within...
EAN: 9783319917870
Anatomy of Murder
Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism,...
EAN: 9781785337321
Violent History of Benevolence
A Violent History of Benevolence traces how standard histories of liberalism, progress, and...
EAN: 9781442637313
Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology
This book provides a detailed history of the first hospital dedicated to neurology and...
EAN: 9781107100824
New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies
This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue...
EAN: 9781137519870
Medical Analogy in Latin Satire
Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an...
EAN: 9781349309993
Hearts Exposed
This book examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960's Britain, when the...
EAN: 9781349541355
Devices and Designs
In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention...
EAN: 9781349540914
Doctors, Honour and the Law
Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues....
EAN: 9781349363131
Angel of Death
The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of...
EAN: 9781349324545
Madness in the Family
Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial...
EAN: 9781349367610
Milk of Paradise
A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since...
EAN: 9781447285762
500 Years of the Royal College of Physicians
EAN: 9781781259115
Oxford Handbook of Disability History
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History features twenty-seven articles that span the diverse,...
EAN: 9780190234959
Medical Societies and Scientific Culture in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
This book analyses how nineteenth-century doctors gathered in medical societies to discuss,...
EAN: 9781526133205
