History Of Medicine

Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the wartime experience o...

An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place d...

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland. Of particular note i...

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the...

As the United States rushed toward industrial and technological modernization in the late nineteenth century, people worried that the workplace had...

Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its ...

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories...

This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. De...

A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential develop...

This history of the medical profession in pre-Revolutionary Russia examines an influential segment of the educated elite. The author shows how Russ...

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 13...

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One: Early Days. Part Two: Heyday. Part Three: Themes. Part Four: Legislation. Part Five: Epilogue. Index....

What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual...

After the discovery of the ergotism epidemics (poisoning caused by ingesting the fungal toxin of rye) and its etiology, eighteenth-century physicia...

Modern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply ...