History of medicine

Case Studies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care uses a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with an important learning tool to improve critical thinking skills and encourage discussion toward improving experiences for patients and their families.

Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing The needs of critically ill children are unique and highly specialised.

Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing The needs of critically ill children are unique and highly specialised.

This brand new title provides a highly illustrated introduction to key embryological concepts, with concise, memorable descriptions of major embryological developments.

This brand new title provides a highly illustrated introduction to key embryological concepts, with concise, memorable descriptions of major embryological developments.

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward.

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward.

Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.

Presents the historical process by which statistics became the language for health institutions working in China, Taiwan, and the World.

Presents the historical process by which statistics became the language for health institutions working in China, Taiwan, and the World.

The first monograph on the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1914.

The first monograph on the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1914.

This book traces the historical roots of psychology''s ''developmental idea'' back to Christian beliefs from the past two millennia.

This book traces the historical roots of psychology''s ''developmental idea'' back to Christian beliefs from the past two millennia.

The book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.

The book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.

An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.

Demonstrates how Britain''s black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

Demonstrates how Britain''s black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

A transnational history of the 1720 French plague epidemic and its ramifications in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world.

Rob Boddice explores the transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A transnational history of the 1720 French plague epidemic and its ramifications in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world.

An updated edition of Jacques Pépin''s acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.

An updated edition of Jacques Pépin''s acclaimed account of the events that transformed a chimpanzee virus into a global pandemic.

Charts the development of Australian medicine in WWI and the provision of medical care to Australian soldiers.

Charts the development of Australian medicine in WWI and the provision of medical care to Australian soldiers.

Rob Boddice explores the transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.

Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.

Provides the first dedicated study of Frances Burney''s medical writings which are now viewed as foundational to modern illness narratives.

Provides the first dedicated study of Frances Burney''s medical writings which are now viewed as foundational to modern illness narratives.

A comprehensive history of the National Hospital, Queen Square, and its Institute, placed within the context of British neurology.

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

Examines Aristotle''s doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

Examines Aristotle''s doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.

Exploring links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its politics in Peru.

Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twentieth century.

Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

Exploring links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its politics in Peru.

The first account of anti-ageing and rejuvenation in modern Britain, exploring hormones, diet, electrotherapy, exercise and skin care.

Annotated translation of a key text in the history of medical and philosophical thinking about the human body.

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.

A comprehensive history of the National Hospital, Queen Square, and its Institute, placed within the context of British neurology.