History of medicine

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions.

En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia.

Über die bemerkenswerte Widerstandskraft einer frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft angesichts verheerender Epidemien.

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.

A widow's moving and often funny account of her late husband's Motor Neurone DiseaseDeals with the experience of attending the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in SwitzerlandPublished as the UK and France consider introducing assisted dying laws

En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia.

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Das Arzneimittelrezept ist die formelle, schriftliche Aufforderung eines Arztes an einen Apotheker zur Abgabe an oder Herstellung von Arzneimitteln für einen bestimmten Patienten.

We all think the NHS was first dreamed up by Nye Bevan when he became minister of health in 1945.

We all think the NHS was first dreamed up by Nye Bevan when he became minister of health in 1945.

Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body.

Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body.

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography.

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography.

Medicine in the 19th century may strike us as primitive by today's standards, but widespread social change of the era brought about new ideas and practices in health and healing-all described in this engaging book.

Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation.

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "e;long eighteenth century,"e; from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution.

Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation.

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "e;long eighteenth century,"e; from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution.

In earlier scholarship, the late antique medical compilations of Oribasius of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida and Paul of Aegina were rather neglected and were believed to add nothing new themselves to what Galen, in particular, had to say.

Anthropology is a book written by Alfred Louis Kroeber, an influential American anthropologist who made significant contributions to the field.

The project to create a 'New Man' and 'New Woman' initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history.

This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body.

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect.

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness.

This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body.

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity.

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged.

"e;Paris is the centre of the cult,"e; wrote Robert Hichens in Felix, his 1902 novel on the rising number of morphine addictions in Europe.

The project to create a 'New Man' and 'New Woman' initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history.

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 women's active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

Acht fast 200 Jahre alte homöopathische Haus- und Taschenapotheken, die bisher alle Hahnemann zugeschrieben wurden, stehen im Zentrum dieser Arbeit.

This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as hermaphrodites , this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and German.

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823-1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.