Western Medical Tradition
Written by leading experts in the field, this book, first published in 2006, describes the most...
EAN: 9780521475655
Western Medical Tradition
Written by leading experts in the field, this book, first published in 2006, describes the most...
EAN: 9780521475242
History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles
Professor Shrewsbury, a bacteriologist, emphasises that the black rat was solely responsible for...
EAN: 9780521022477
Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany
The psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the...
EAN: 9780801441950
Marginal to Mainstream
This book explains how research is legitimizing CAM in the eyes of physicians and facilitating...
EAN: 9780521834292
Origins of the French Welfare State
This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in...
EAN: 9780521813341
Galen: On the Properties of Foodstuffs
This work lucidly describes the ways in which foods were thought to affect the body and were in...
EAN: 9780521812429
Medicine before Science
This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle...
EAN: 9780521809771
Spreading Germs
Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were...
EAN: 9780521773027
Networks of Innovation
Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on how private sector organizations have...
EAN: 9780521626200
Disease and Empire
This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the...
EAN: 9780521591690
Progress of Experiment
This book explores the origins of our contemporary system of drug regulation and of the modern...
EAN: 9780521581424
Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820
By examining German university medicine between 1750 and 1820, this book presents a new...
EAN: 9780521552318
Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885–1935
This book examines the transformation of the British public health system, during the years...
EAN: 9780521481861
International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918–1939
This book provides a series of original studies of international health and welfare organisations...
EAN: 9780521450126
Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told...
EAN: 9780521400473
Explaining Epidemics
Medicine until recently remained a history written by and for practitioners. These essays diverge...
EAN: 9780521393409
Science and Empire
East Coast fever can kill 95% of a herd of cattle in three weeks. The disease was unknown to...
EAN: 9780521392532
Physician-Legislators of France
Between the birth of the Third Republic and the outbreak of World War I, French medical doctors...
EAN: 9780521382083
Quality and Quantity
This book, first published in 2001, explains how eugenicists tried to bring about the biological...
EAN: 9780521374989
Last Resort
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when tens of...
EAN: 9780521353717
Making a Medical Living
Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history of medical practice,...
EAN: 9780521345262
Animals and Disease
This book presents an analysis of the origins and development of the study of infectious,...
EAN: 9780521018449
Politics of Madness
Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, this text presents...
EAN: 9780415301749
