History of medicine

The most influential doctor of later antiquity, Galen wrote extensively on logic and the philosophy of science.

A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

Records of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Venice uncover individuals'' conception of the supernatural in early modern Europe.

This compelling new account looks back to the early twentieth-century origins and subsequent development of HIV/AIDS before 1981.

Records of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Venice uncover individuals'' conception of the supernatural in early modern Europe.

This compelling new account looks back to the early twentieth-century origins and subsequent development of HIV/AIDS before 1981.

This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817.

This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817.

A new view on the evolution of the language of medicine based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts.

A new view on the evolution of the language of medicine based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts.

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.

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures.

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

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714-1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England's literature, medicine and science.

Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain.

This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a troubling reality.

Offering a cultural history of blood as it was mobilized across twentieth-century U.

This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers.

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea.

The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice.

This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places.

This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then.

This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany.

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway.

This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture.

Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940.

The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.

This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated  in Britain before the National Health Service.

This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer.

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history.

Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance.

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes.

This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation.

The Politics of Addiction  examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction.

Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

Take a trip into the world of hallucinogenic plants in this latest addition to Kew's Witch's Garden series.

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature.

This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire.

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire.

Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era.

Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era.

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day.

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day.