Smell of Burning
He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh,...
EAN: 9780099597872
Rats, Lice and History
From the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval...
EAN: 9781911440895
Plague, Print, and the Reformation
This book investigates German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573 in...
EAN: 9781472473141
Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941
Using declassified archival material and health propaganda, Williams argues that the Bolsheviks,...
EAN: 9780754655343
Dr James Barry
A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick – the remarkable story of...
EAN: 9781786071194
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006)
EAN: 9781138056701
History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine. Demonstrating...
EAN: 9781107176010
Yellow Fever
Medical science has never found a cure for yellow fever and the disease continues to present a...
EAN: 9780786479191
Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
The handbook reflects on and interrogates different approaches to the history of infertility,...
EAN: 9781137520791
History of Occupational Therapy
To understand who we are and where we are going, we first need to understand who we were and...
EAN: 9781617119972
Landscapes of Disease
Malaria has existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on...
EAN: 9786155211980
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb...
EAN: 9783319548128
How Aspirin Entered Our Medicine Cabinet
This brief traces the story of one of our most common medicines – aspirin. Starting at the...
EAN: 9783319546148
Medicine, Mobility and the Empire
This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with...
EAN: 9781784991463
Plague and Music in the Renaissance
Using a wide variety of primary sources, this book explores Renaissance musical responses to...
EAN: 9781107109254
William Watson Cheyne and the Advancement of Bacteriology
William Watson Cheyne (1852-1932), a surgeon by training and a student of Joseph Lister, was a...
EAN: 9781476666518
Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France
EAN: 9781138276000
History and Poetics of Scientific Biography
EAN: 9781138264793
Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice
Using an innovative approach to evidence for the medieval hospital and medical practice, this...
EAN: 9781138264748
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj
EAN: 9781138258549
