It is generally known that the most important medical contributions to the world have been made by scientists from the UK, Northern Europe, America, and Italy.
It is generally known that the most important medical contributions to the world have been made by scientists from the UK, Northern Europe, America, and Italy.
Schlafwandeln fasziniert Menschen damals wie heute als Grenzphanomen zwischen Schlafen und Wachsein, Traum und Realitat, Genialitat und gefahrlichem Wahnsinn.
Schlafwandeln fasziniert Menschen damals wie heute als Grenzphanomen zwischen Schlafen und Wachsein, Traum und Realitat, Genialitat und gefahrlichem Wahnsinn.
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 1500-1750.
This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region.
This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region.
Personal physician of the emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus, Galen was a multi-faceted intellectual and his extensive writings constitute, by far, the largest surviving corpus of any ancient author.
A lo largo de la historia ha existido una fascinación especial de algunos médicos por hallar y desentrañar, cual detectives, los casos médicos raros, extraordinarios o insólitos; aquellos que son capaces de sorprender a propios y extraños.
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 1500-1750.
This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.
This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.
Personal physician of the emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus, Galen was a multi-faceted intellectual and his extensive writings constitute, by far, the largest surviving corpus of any ancient author.
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.
Infant Welfare: For The Student & Practitioner was published in 1926, at a time that saw the development of the new Infant Welfare centres, which began to appear in the UK in the late 19th century.
Epidemics, Endemics, and Pandemics in World History provides a comprehensive account of human interactions with diseases from the stone age to COVID-19.
Epidemics, Endemics, and Pandemics in World History provides a comprehensive account of human interactions with diseases from the stone age to COVID-19.
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.
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.
This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.
This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.
Infant Welfare: For The Student & Practitioner was published in 1926, at a time that saw the development of the new Infant Welfare centres, which began to appear in the UK in the late 19th century.
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.
Quiero imaginar De cuerpos y travesias de esta manera: como un libro-experiencia, que revela algo de mis investigaciones en curso, no solo subrayando mis indagaciones y movimientos, sino tambien registrando las transformaciones por las que pase; en cierta forma, trazando una cartografia de afecciones y afectos.
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.
Als Christiaan Barnard die erste Herzverpflanzung gelang, schrieb man das Jahr 1967, als Dick Fosbury mit seinem neuen Hochsprungstil Gold gewann, 1968, als Neil Armstrong und Buzz Aldrin auf dem Mond landeten, 1969.
Als Christiaan Barnard die erste Herzverpflanzung gelang, schrieb man das Jahr 1967, als Dick Fosbury mit seinem neuen Hochsprungstil Gold gewann, 1968, als Neil Armstrong und Buzz Aldrin auf dem Mond landeten, 1969.
This book presents an in-depth investigation of 12 pandemics that have wreaked devastation across the world over the last 700 years, including the bubonic plague, syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy, smallpox, cholera, polio, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS, and Covid-19 and coronaviruses.
This book presents an in-depth investigation of 12 pandemics that have wreaked devastation across the world over the last 700 years, including the bubonic plague, syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy, smallpox, cholera, polio, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS, and Covid-19 and coronaviruses.
