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.
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 culture.
"e;Principles of Duality: The Quest for Balance in the World"e;Discover the profound connections of duality that shape our lives and the world we live in.
In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have never been edited or studied.
Konzepte vom menschlichen Körper sind kulturell im Detail oft unterschiedlich, weisen aber dennoch zahlreiche allgemeinere Gemeinsamkeiten auf: Krankheit wird oft als Störung einer ursprünglichen Ordnung betrachtet, so dass sich ein Vergleich des Körpers mit anderen Systemen anbietet (Staat, Kosmos, wiederkehrende Naturphänomene).
The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture.
In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research
on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States
have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical
archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of
self-care in the past.
Estado asistencial, Estado benefactor, Estado de compromiso, derechos sociales, son conceptos frecuentes en estudios pro¬ducidos por las humanidades y las ciencias sociales en el Chile reciente, que difieren en sus orígenes y significados históricos.
Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomena of risk, upset, and misfortune have been largely overlooked by historians.
Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally 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 infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on.
Originally published in 1987, reissued here with a new preface, this book presented a history of the Queen's Nursing Institute on the occasion of the centenary of its founding in 1887.
Jerry Stannard assembled a legendary collection of materials on the history of botany from Homer to Linnaeus, and his mastery of the field was acknowledged as incomparable.
Embryology Explained is an essential guide for medical students and residents, enriched with original illustrations by Dr Thomas Newman that navigate the complexities of embryonic development.
The articles in The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 describe the activities of people living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, generously defined, during the early modern period.
Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom.
For surgeons, physicians, and anatomists involved in the management and study of disorders of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas, eponyms are part of everyday communication.
