Biomedicine and the Human Condition
How to avoid disease, how to breed successfully, and how to live to a reasonable age are...
EAN: 9780521541480
Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800
This title explores the changing relationship between English society and the coastal environment...
EAN: 9781840142655
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity
The development of medicine and philosophy in antiquity was closely connected. This collection of...
EAN: 9780521818001
Traumatic Pasts
Trauma - the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse - has become the subject of...
EAN: 9780521583657
History of the Senses
This path--breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the...
EAN: 9780745629582
Once Charitable Enterprise
This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of...
EAN: 9780521528627
Biology of Plagues
Even today, the threat of unstoppable plague is ever-present. Historically, in Europe, the most...
EAN: 9780521801508
Rough Medicine
Using diaries, journals and correspondence the author tells a fascinating story of remarkable men...
EAN: 9780415924528
Medicine and Science at Exeter Cathedral Library
Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific...
EAN: 9780859895743
Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages
This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages...
EAN: 9780521483780
Leprosy in Medieval England
A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose...
EAN: 9781843834540
Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death
The essays in this collection focus on the practical aspects of medieval medicine. They cover the...
EAN: 9780521431019
Making Sense of Illness
In this 1998 book Robert Aronowitz offers historical essays about how diseases change their...
EAN: 9780521558259
French Paracelsians
The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is normally characterised in...
EAN: 9780521894449
Mission and Method
Mission and Method challenges the prevalent notion that the British were the leaders in the...
EAN: 9780521527019
Charitable Knowledge
Charitable Knowledge explores the formation of the teaching hospital in eighteenth-century...
EAN: 9780521525183
Caribbean Slave
This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. The study...
EAN: 9780521524704
Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770–1830
This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical...
EAN: 9780521524605
Medicine before the Plague
This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the...
EAN: 9780521524544
Morbid Appearances
This is the first detailed account of the rise of pathological anatomy in France and England in...
EAN: 9780521524537
Colonial Disease
The Congolese people termed sleeping sickness the 'colonial disease'. This study examines why...
EAN: 9780521524520
Laboratory Revolution in Medicine
This book brings together leading researchers on the history of laboratory medicine in Europe and...
EAN: 9780521524506
