Preserve your Love for Science
William Alexander Hammond, M. D. (1828–1900), one of the most successful American physicians of...
EAN: 9780521528436
Physical and the Moral
This book explores the tradition of the 'science of man' in French medicine of the era 1750–1850....
EAN: 9780521524629
Medicine and Modernity
This collection comprehensively and critically addresses fundamental issues in the history of...
EAN: 9780521524568
Sickness and the State
This 1996 book is a history of health and disease in Malaya from colonisation to World War II. It...
EAN: 9780521524483
AIDS and Contemporary History
The advent of AIDS has led to a revival of interest in the historical relationship of disease to...
EAN: 9780521521147
Nation and Narration
A classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different...
EAN: 9780415014830
Brief History of Medicine
From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA
EAN: 9781845291556
Making Sense of Illness
In this 1998 book Robert Aronowitz offers historical essays about how diseases change their...
EAN: 9780521552349
Medicine before Science
This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle...
EAN: 9780521007610
Harmony of Illusions
Argues that post-traumatic stress disorder is a cultural product put together by the practices,...
EAN: 9780691017235
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England
This 1997 book provides a geographical, demographic and epidemiological study of disease and...
EAN: 9780521892889
Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture
This volume of studies seeks an anthropological view of medicine and the healing arts as they...
EAN: 9780333550656
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Cunningham and Grell offer an exciting interpretation of early modern European history...
EAN: 9780521467018
What is Medical History?
* What is Medical History? will be an invaluable textbook for all students of the history of...
EAN: 9780745632254
Antidepressant Era
The first complete account of the phenomenon of antidepressants, this authoritative, highly...
EAN: 9780674039582
Madness
What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just...
EAN: 9780192802675
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800
The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of...
EAN: 9780719067372
Anthropology and International Health
This work examines the significant health problems facing South Asia today and assesses the ways...
EAN: 9782884491723
Confinement of the Insane
This 2003 collection of essays explores the rise of the lunatic asylum, and the confinement of...
EAN: 9780521802062
Body Emblazoned
'A major event in the cultural history of the modern era ... beautifully written, rich in...
EAN: 9780415157193
Blood and Guts
Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features...
EAN: 9780141010649
Walking London's Medical History Second Edition
Packed full of curious and surprising facts about medicine and beautifully illustrated with maps,...
EAN: 9781444172430
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume locates him...
EAN: 9781107410749
Bodily Matters
Considers the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship,...
EAN: 9780822334231
