History of medicine

The post-World War II era was a tumultuous period in the world of psychiatry.

In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject.

How did the Victorians view mental illness?

The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war.

How did the Victorians view mental illness?

The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war.

Devastating epidemics of untreatable smallpox caused not only deaths but dire disfigurements of face and body as well as one third of all blindness.

';Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians.

This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice.

This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice.

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand.

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities.

How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system?

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand.

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities.

How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system?

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war.

Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war.

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

Available in paperback for the first time, this book is the first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Available in paperback for the first time, this book is the first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.

The majority of papers in this volume were originally presented at the eighth annual 'Disease, Disability, and Medicine in Medieval Europe' conference.

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.

Research shows that non-responsive patients benefit significantly from spiritual and pastoral care.

Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the opening of St Christopher's Hospice - widely thought of to be the first modern hospice, combining pain and symptom management with education and training - this edited collection discusses what motivates professionals and volunteers to provide spiritual care.

Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter.

What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths?

In 1964, the release of Dr.

A beautifully illustrated history of Britain's most revered and valued institution: the NHS.

A beautifully illustrated history of Britain's most revered and valued institution: the NHS.

The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol.

The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol.

Arthur Milnes Marshall was a 19th-century scientist who gave lectures addressing the biological debates of his time.

Arthur Milnes Marshall was a 19th-century scientist who gave lectures addressing the biological debates of his time.

Troubled by toothache?

Troubled by toothache?

This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany.

Organ transplantation is the greatest therapeutic advancement of the second half of the 20th century.

This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates.

This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of "e;space-fillers"e;, the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers.

The precepts laid down are the result of the experience acquired in the war in the Peninsula, from the first battle of Rolia in 1808, to the last in Belgium, of Waterloo in 1815They have been the means of saving the lives, and of relieving, if not even of preventing, the miseries of thousands of our fellow-creatures throughout the civilized world.

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources.

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources.