History of medicine

Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.

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

Innovative examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines.

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

The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

A study of colonialism and indigenous health in Hawaiʻi, highlighting cultural change over time.

This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.

This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.

Explores in detail an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected.

This book places vice and vice regulation in their global social and cultural contexts at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book places vice and vice regulation in their global social and cultural contexts at the turn of the twentieth century.

The first history of epidemics in modern Asia.

The first history of epidemics in modern Asia.

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

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

The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.

The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire''s history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history.

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire''s history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

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

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

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

This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South''s defining experiences with death.

This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South''s defining experiences with death.

Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized.

Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized.

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness.

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness.

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession.

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession.

First published in 1991, this book charts the inception of the British National Health Service from 1911 to 1948.

First published in 1991, this book charts the inception of the British National Health Service from 1911 to 1948.

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship.

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship.

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

A commonly-held model of the doctor-patient relationship casts it as a subject/object relationship: broadly the patient is a 'text', and the doctor the reader or interpreter of that text.

When Janet Rhys Dent is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, she decides to try to be a "e;good patient"e;.

Multiple-choice questions are an ideal way to improve understanding and revise for examinations.

This is the first major study of a significant post within the British government.

"e;The Other Side of Medicine"e; is an amusing and challenging reflection of changes and fashions in general practice.