History of medicine

The story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities.

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'.

Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; and the ways in which different eras conceive of the causes of mental disorder.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations.

A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama.

While the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history.

Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains.

Oral health is integral to wellbeing and quality of life.

The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents.

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.

Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa.

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

An analysis of the challenge that India''s poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology''s creation of a public role for science.

Von Pflanzen, Pulvern und bunten Pillen: Die Geschichte der Medizin unterhaltsam erzähltEine Impfung bewahrt vor den schlimmsten Krankheiten, Antibiotika retten Leben und Tabletten sind aus unseren Medizinschränken kaum noch wegzudenken.

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability.

Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement.

This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory.

Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine?

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic.

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor.

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries.

Food historian Emma Kay tells the story of our centuries-old relationship with herbs.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States.

Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system.

A rich new examination of the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to 1918.

During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "e;other war at home"e;: they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled.

Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development?

In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures.

This book offers an analysis of the dynamics of the global medical device (medtech) industry from the 1960s until the present, using the approaches of business history and industry studies.

Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infection control.

This book introduces and promotes Dr Lim Boon Keng's thoughts on Confucianism.

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service.

A notable surgeon and charismatic teacher himself, Professor Ellis has brought together in Operations that made History a fascinating collection of renowned surgical procedures each one illustrating a different aspect of the history of surgery.

Die Blütezeit der medizinischen Schulen verhalf Wien zu Weltruhm.

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.

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner?

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed.

England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years behind other European authorities.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the history of Hungarian psychiatry between 1850 and 1920, placed in both an Austro-Hungarian and wider European comparative framework.

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great's (c.