This book tells the bewildering tale of one of the most insidious, yet almost forgotten crimes against humanity planned by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Soon after taking power in 1933, the Nazis introduced a program of involuntary sterilization...Loe edasi...
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to explore the history of psychiatry and patients experiences, showing their active role in treatment and cultural life...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009785273)
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to explore the history of psychiatry and patients experiences, showing their active role in treatment and cultural life...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009552677)
Platos Timaeus was of enormous significance to Galens thought on the bodys structure and functioning and a key source of inspiration for his teleological world view. This is the first critical English translation of two previously inaccessible rea...Loe edasi...
David David Herzberg, Jeremy Greene, Joseph M. Gabriel, Nils Kessel, Beat Bächi, Bob Beach, Christian Bonah, Nancy Campbell, Josephine Eberhart, Joseph M. Gabriel...
Sari: Rochester Studies in Medical History
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251696)
Explores how the concepts risk and benefit can operate as analytic tools across the medicine/drug divide, allowing new narratives, clearer understanding, and bridging the gap between licit and illicit....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251740)
Chronicling the last 25 years of URMCs one-hundred-year history, this book updates previous histories in celebration of the organizations centennial by detailing developments at both strategic and departmental levels....Loe edasi...
Examining the emergence of international public health policy between the 1930s and 80s, this book sheds light on the role that rural community health initiatives in South and Southeast Asia played in the movement towards primary health care and hea...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819824557)
Based on personal relationships, the author recounts the revolutionary lives of these young medical pioneers and their contributions to organ transplantation in this book. Organ transplantation was one of the greatest innovations in medicine during...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819825479)
Based on personal relationships, the author recounts the revolutionary lives of these young medical pioneers and their contributions to organ transplantation in this book. Organ transplantation was one of the greatest innovations in medicine during...Loe edasi...
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the medical knowledge system in the pre-Qin period and its specific development during the Han Dynasty, drawing on related accounts in non-medical literature as background evidence and analyzing in detail the texts of the current...Loe edasi...
Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, Daisy Payling
Sari: Social Histories of Medicine
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197986)
The volume explores the shaping of everyday health in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing. -- ....Loe edasi...
The present volume focuses on a two-fold issue: food as a cultural element that united Mediterranean European society, and food as a cultural encounter between European explorers and new worlds during the early Renaissance. The acqu...Loe edasi...
This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.Early Chinese understandings of disability are effectively revealed through investigations of a wide range...Loe edasi...
It may seem as if the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has always been part of the UK’s health and social care landscape. But this fascinating book charts the evolution of NICE from its origins 25 years ago, as well as how t...Loe edasi...
Women have been fighting for control over their bodies for thousands of years. From Neolithic hunter-gatherers to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, this is their story....Loe edasi...
Building upon the early history of the HIV pandemic laid out in the 2008 book A Decade of HAART, this book explores the scientific breakthroughs and global response to the HIV pandemic from the mid-1990s through 2023. AIDS at a C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins US, ISBN-13: 9780063288126)
From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities—while confronting a system built to exclude th...Loe edasi...
Keren Hammerschlag, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Tania Anne Cleaves
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182722)
This collection of essays traverses media, styles, geographies and disciplines to offer innovative interpretations of visual representations of human bodies that might be considered borderline. -- ....Loe edasi...
Responding to a need among health humanities scholars and clinicians to grapple with medicines longstanding relationship to theatre, this open access book argues for deep connections between theatre and medicine which guide insights in both discipli...Loe edasi...
Maisam Alomar, Michael R. Hames-García, Micol Seigel
Sari: Abolition: Emancipation from the Carceral
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754895)
How care and criminalization became entangledand why abolition medicine mattersMedicine likes to tell an altruistic story. Maisam Alomar shows how that story masks an enduring partnership with racism and punishment. Beginning with the postwar rehabi...Loe edasi...
Maisam Alomar, Michael R. Hames-García, Micol Seigel
Sari: Abolition: Emancipation from the Carceral
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754888)
How care and criminalization became entangledand why abolition medicine mattersMedicine likes to tell an altruistic story. Maisam Alomar shows how that story masks an enduring partnership with racism and punishment. Beginning with the postwar rehabi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226834092)
The Chigi Codex makes available for the first time a critical edition and comprehensive study of a late fifteenth-century anthology of sacred musical works. Compiled between 1500 and 1504, The Chigi Codex contains the complete contents of...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839728)
Tells the history of St. Vincents Hospital and the transformative impact of Catholic health care in New York City.St. Vincent’s Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, cr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847542)
Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health. Disabled Empire examines how imperial precedents...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847528)
Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health. Disabled Empire examines how imperial precedents...Loe edasi...
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 man’s battle for his daughter – a battle which began privat...Loe edasi...
This book tells the bewildering tale of one of the most insidious, yet almost forgotten crimes against humanity planned by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Soon after taking power in 1933, the Nazis introduced a program of involuntary sterilization...Loe edasi...
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to explore the history of psychiatry and patients experiences, showing their active role in treatment and cultural life...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009785273)
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to explore the history of psychiatry and patients experiences, showing their active role in treatment and cultural life...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009552677)
Platos Timaeus was of enormous significance to Galens thought on the bodys structure and functioning and a key source of inspiration for his teleological world view. This is the first critical English translation of two previously inaccessible rea...Loe edasi...
David David Herzberg, Jeremy Greene, Joseph M. Gabriel, Nils Kessel, Beat Bächi, Bob Beach, Christian Bonah, Nancy Campbell, Josephine Eberhart, Joseph M. Gabriel...
Sari: Rochester Studies in Medical History
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251696)
Explores how the concepts risk and benefit can operate as analytic tools across the medicine/drug divide, allowing new narratives, clearer understanding, and bridging the gap between licit and illicit....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251740)
Chronicling the last 25 years of URMCs one-hundred-year history, this book updates previous histories in celebration of the organizations centennial by detailing developments at both strategic and departmental levels....Loe edasi...
Sari: Liverpool Studies in Health, Disability, Culture & Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805968412)
How shall we know insanity from sanity? Making Madness Visible offers a cultural history of the many ways insanity has been visualised, and how such representations have shaped our understanding of mental disorder itself. From m...Loe edasi...
Examining the emergence of international public health policy between the 1930s and 80s, this book sheds light on the role that rural community health initiatives in South and Southeast Asia played in the movement towards primary health care and hea...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819824557)
Based on personal relationships, the author recounts the revolutionary lives of these young medical pioneers and their contributions to organ transplantation in this book. Organ transplantation was one of the greatest innovations in medicine during...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819825479)
Based on personal relationships, the author recounts the revolutionary lives of these young medical pioneers and their contributions to organ transplantation in this book. Organ transplantation was one of the greatest innovations in medicine during...Loe edasi...
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the medical knowledge system in the pre-Qin period and its specific development during the Han Dynasty, drawing on related accounts in non-medical literature as background evidence and analyzing in detail the texts of the current...Loe edasi...
Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, Daisy Payling
Sari: Social Histories of Medicine
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197986)
The volume explores the shaping of everyday health in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing. -- ....Loe edasi...
The present volume focuses on a two-fold issue: food as a cultural element that united Mediterranean European society, and food as a cultural encounter between European explorers and new worlds during the early Renaissance. The acqu...Loe edasi...
This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.Early Chinese understandings of disability are effectively revealed through investigations of a wide range...Loe edasi...
It may seem as if the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has always been part of the UK’s health and social care landscape. But this fascinating book charts the evolution of NICE from its origins 25 years ago, as well as how t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781805265603)
A searing account of medical controversy, complexity and conspiracy, diagnosing both healthy and unhealthy doubt. In todays medical world, skepticism is marginalized: dissenting doctors and uncertain patients are seen as hardly more rational...Loe edasi...
Women have been fighting for control over their bodies for thousands of years. From Neolithic hunter-gatherers to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, this is their story....Loe edasi...
