History of medicine

The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864.

The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864.

With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel.

With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel.

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850.

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850.

Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate.

Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate.

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them.

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them.

What does drug addiction mean to us?

What does drug addiction mean to us?

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur.

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur.

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one.

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one.

The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - each composed in heroic verse and responding to the urgent need to justify the ways of God in times of social, religious, and political upheaval.

The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - each composed in heroic verse and responding to the urgent need to justify the ways of God in times of social, religious, and political upheaval.

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer.

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer.

By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies.

By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies.

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital.

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns.

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns.

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens.

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens.

Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people.

Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people.

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.