This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of his fierce critique of atomism, which is the most emblematic and disputed example of his polemical accounts, and demonstrates his reliability....Loe edasi...
Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant i...Loe edasi...
As antimicrobial resistance threatens global health, phages have reemerged as subjects of scientific inquiry. The Role of Phages in Early Molecular Genetics: History of an Emerging Discipline bridges history, physics, and virology, offering a narrat...Loe edasi...
Infant Welfare was published in 1926 and provides invaluable detail concerning the newly established Infant Welfare centres. The book reflects the growing significance of womens contribution to medicine and to wider society and is an important work...Loe edasi...
Ireland was the location of the earliest provision for the care and control of the mentally ill. Initially welcomed, discontent with the institutions grew with the growth of asylum admissions after the Famine. Originally published in 1981, this book...Loe edasi...
This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.This book will be of interest to scholars in corpus linguistics, discourse anal...Loe edasi...
Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies in the early modern period, circa 15001750....Loe edasi...
This moving book examines the HIV epidemic in the UK through the lives of a range of individuals who worked tirelessly, but often quietly, to make a difference to those living and dying with HIV....Loe edasi...
Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by plac...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century examines the problems posed by stuttering and illustrates how it became the linguistic handicap most responsible for laying the roots of profes...Loe edasi...
The debate about vivisection is over 150 years old yet until this book was published in 1987 there had been few studies of the historical context of the vivisection controversy. This book places the often vehement arguments of pro- and anti-vivisect...Loe edasi...
Epidemics, Endemics, and Pandemics in World History provides a comprehensive account of human interactions with diseases from the stone age to COVID-19. It takes a thematic approach, exploring the two-way relationship between pathogens and human dev...Loe edasi...
This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of societys basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease....Loe edasi...
From childrens visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture....Loe edasi...
In recent years there has been a growth in interest in the history of nursing, both from nurses themselves, and on the part of historians and sociologists. Originally published in 1987 this book presents some of the most interesting work in this fie...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983 this book examines the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form through one generation of general hospital nurses, Voluntary and Poor Law based, who were recruited and trained between 1881 and 1914. As su...Loe edasi...
Plague in the Early Modern World now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific mechanical cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved....Loe edasi...
The history of women in medicine are celebrated in books, awards, names of buildings and organizations. In contrast, the generation who began the change are seldom memorialized; yet without the efforts of these few in what was an unambiguously a mal...Loe edasi...
Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?...Loe edasi...
