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...
Revealing the forgotten ideas and philosophy behind early naturopathic osteopathy, Strachan presents a reoriented historical view of Thomas Bowen and his work, breaking from the prevailing twentieth-century legitimation narrative of chiropractic sub...Loe edasi...
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a specific focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices....Loe edasi...
Sari: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003702337)
Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another....Loe edasi...
This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and womens bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have...Loe edasi...
This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and...Loe edasi...
This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and womens active expression of faith, practised at the critical c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003694038)
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated....Loe edasi...
Unlocking Indias time-honored medical heritage, Scientific Synopsis of Vgbhaas Classic Ayurveda Treatise Agasagraha: A Comparison with its Abridged Version Agahdaya delves into Ayurveda, where it emerges from an interplay of observations and yogic...Loe edasi...
Dr. Alan R. Moritz and Forensic Pathology fills in a missing chapter on the life, research, and lasting legacy of Dr. Moritz, providing insight into the development of modern forensic pathology practice by examining the momentous contributions and c...Loe edasi...
This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia....Loe edasi...
This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of healthcare policy from high income states in Europe to low-income countries in the Global South....Loe edasi...
This book explores disability across time and spacefrom ancient Egypt as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary fieldto go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancien...Loe edasi...
Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Many enjoyed comprehensive free health care, and this book traces their beginnings and development, and off...Loe edasi...
A study of the conflict between western and indigenous systems and practices of medicine, this book explores the shifting meanings of indigenous medicine within the therapeutic language that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in India...Loe edasi...
The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmarie...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, this book presented a history of the Queens Nursing Institute on the occasion of the centenary of its founding in 1887. Since that time, the Institute had been the major force behind all developments in the field of dis...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1960, this is a story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteeth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication. It records how our nurse had been and still was a...Loe edasi...
Garcia de Ortas Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East and a port city that occupied a prominent role in the circuit of trade. Orta, a Portuguese physician who lived i...Loe edasi...
The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system....Loe edasi...
The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances and articles used in medicine since its first publication. Cartwright explores how these standards have been achieved through a comprehensive review of the histo...Loe edasi...
This book brings together experts from around the world to explore how sanitation affected our ancestors. By its end, readers will realise that toilets were in use in ancient Mesopotamia even before the invention of writing, and that flushing toilet...Loe edasi...
Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to wome...Loe edasi...
Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focusing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doin...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant for future research, and are important in the history of medici...Loe edasi...
In 1705-1706, an epidemic of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XIs physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the...Loe edasi...
Traditional Chinese medicine developed over thousands of years, but changes introduced from 1835-1935 by American missionary doctors initiated a landslide of cultural revolution in the city of Canton and medical modernization throughout China...Loe edasi...
The second edition Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of viruses has combined with global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of disease. It includes an introduction to the characteristics of viral pathogens that...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...
