Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800–1930
Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of...
EAN: 9780719067396
Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680
This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine set in...
EAN: 9780521558273
History of Scurvy and Vitamin C
This is a survey of the long and fascinating history of the various ideas and theories about the...
EAN: 9780521347730
Dr Simon Forman
Simon Forman was one of the extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Like...
EAN: 9780099289623
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution...
EAN: 9780521583633
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as...
EAN: 9780521272056
History of Psychiatry
Now in paper! Writing in a charged, highly-accessible style, Edward Shorter covers the history of...
EAN: 9780471245315
Western Medical Tradition
This book, first published in 1995, is a summary of work on the history of medicine from the...
EAN: 9780521475648
Complementary Therapies in Context
This is a detailed and comprehensive reference text for people wanting extensive background...
EAN: 9781853026409
Introduction to the Social History of Nursing
Combining the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse, this book traces...
EAN: 9780415017862
Legal Medicine in History
This collecion of essays on the social history of legal (or forensic) medicine explores the...
EAN: 9780521395144
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
This is a 2001 study of the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science.
EAN: 9780521792721
Bilharzia
Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical...
EAN: 9780521530606
Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its...
EAN: 9780674076136
Terrors of the Table
Terrors of the Table tells the absorbing story of our struggle to recognise the connections...
EAN: 9780192806611
Dictionary of the History of Medicine
A comprehensive reference on the history of medicine. Detailed entries provide descriptions of...
EAN: 9781850700210
History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004
Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured...
EAN: 9781403947154
Medicine and Victory
Presents a comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War. This book...
EAN: 9780199268597
Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century...
EAN: 9780521673297
Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare
Examines nursing as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different...
EAN: 9780415138369
Medicine, Science and Merck
The authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and...
EAN: 9780521662956
