History Of Medicine

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonia...

How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive womens bodies and how did it acknowledge womens reproductive functions? Detailing womens lives in Gre...

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science ...

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

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how ...

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease.The volume begins by exploring current m...

As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to showcase cult...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse. Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century animates di...