Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine
Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice...
EAN: 9781138515680
Medical Technology in Japan
Japan is suffering from a "device gap
EAN: 9781138512047
Harmony in Healing
Medicine and astronomy are the oldest of all the sciences
EAN: 9781138510531
Hospital Care and the British Standing Army, 1660–1714
EAN: 9781138263062
Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700
Concerned with rhetoric's role in shaping knowledge, culture, and society, this book shows how...
EAN: 9781108425193
Global History of Medicine
A volume exploring the history of medicine across continents and countries from ancient to modern...
EAN: 9780198803188
Medicine in Wales c.1800-2000
At a time when the proper role of the state is under constant review, its relationship to the...
EAN: 9780708318249
Deadly Companions
The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining...
EAN: 9780198815440
Childbirth in the Age of Plastics
Focusing on obstetrics, this first book about the history of medicine in relation to the plastic...
EAN: 9781780663883
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe
EAN: 9781138277731
African American Hospitals in North Carolina
With little money, scant opportunities for professional education and few white allies, African...
EAN: 9781476667249
Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the...
EAN: 9783319657677
Intellectual Disability
This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of...
EAN: 9781526125316
Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia
EAN: 9781138573765
Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in...
EAN: 9783319652436
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers...
EAN: 9783319643366
Tabiyat
This book is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays written by noted...
EAN: 9780199480159
Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion
This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds...
EAN: 9783319629285
Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals
The only book to explore the role of nurses in mental hospitals, this work moves from the early...
EAN: 9781138556829
