Fifty years after its first publication in 1976 Routledge is now reissuing Thalidomide: My Fight with a substantial new introduction by the author. It is the powerful story of one mans battle for his daughter a battle which began privately and ende...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112238615)
Epidemics have shaped human history, yet studies of their ancient attestations remain a developing field. This volume examines how epidemics were conceptualized, experienced, and responded to in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE. Dr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Essex Publications (Imprint of University of Hertfordshire Press), ISBN-13: 9781912260799)
How did the profession of medicine evolve during Queen Victorias reign? In this book Jane Pearson shows how doctors working in Colchester during the Victorian period developed professionally and also investigates the extent to which they effected m...Loe edasi...
Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders’ term ‘total pain’ has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person’s pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009703710)
Now long-forgotten, the brain disease frenzy was frightening, not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, and deep...Loe edasi...
Now long-forgotten, the brain disease frenzy was frightening, not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, and deep...Loe edasi...
One of the earliest exemplars of a Black Death tractate, this work by the Jewish physician, Abraham Caslari, is made available for the first time in English....Loe edasi...
Exploring 18th-century medicines construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and Ger...Loe edasi...
This book examines the contributions of women to the history of philosophy and medicine, as well as the traditional medical knowledge that has been employed in households. Women have played integral roles in the history of medicine, often serving as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593129166)
A sweeping history of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight.In...Loe edasi...
How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of...Loe edasi...
During World War II, religious pacifist David Miller and a group of conscientious objectors made an extraordinary choice: they signed up for government-sponsored medical experiments that intentionally infected them with hepatitis. Their goal was sim...Loe edasi...
This book explores how medical and psychiatric knowledge, practitioners, and practices respond to sexual violence. It highlights how the medical and psychiatric fields often reproduce political and social dynamics of discrimination, othering, margin...Loe edasi...
This book presents a narrative and social science history of the powered upper limb prostheses. It examines how research, innovation and design changed in the prosthetics industry from 1945 to the present.A History of Knowledge and Produ...Loe edasi...
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J. D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history....Loe edasi...
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
