History Of Medicine

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

Published in 1910. Treatises of Fistula in Ano discusses Medicine during the early 15th century.

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

Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists unde...

This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former coloni...

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius...

Published in 1998, this is a fundamental re-assessment of the world-view of the alchemists, natural philosophers and intelligencers of the mid 17th...

This book expands the art historical perspective on arts connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies fro...

This book explores how madness was defined and diagnosed as a condition of the mind in the Middle Ages and what effects it was thought to have on t...

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the p...

Prosthesis denotes a rhetorical addition to a pre-existing beginning, a replacement for that which is defective or absent, a technological mode of ...

Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of ...

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they i...

Published in 1910. Treatises of Fistula in Ano discusses Medicine during the early 15th century.

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmac...

Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book off...

This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the co...

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of gr...

Originally published in 1907, this title was one of several influential textbooks on nursing written by Isabel Hampton Robb, a nursing theorist. Th...

Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, wri...

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and ...

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and ...

This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Colle...

In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook explores disease in the merchant navy through the history of the Seamen's Hospital Socie...