History Of Medicine

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes readers inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dis...

The word hypothermia has Greek origins meaning under heat. Its symptoms initially involve shivering, poorly coordinated, laborious movement, and di...

'Hugely entertaining' Guardian'Fascinating' Mail on SundayIn 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established...

Consilia played an important role in not only medieval but also early modern professional health literature. A literary consilium consisted of a wr...

Leeuwenhoeks Legatees and Beijerincks Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands offers a tour of the history of Dutch medical...

Enthralling; it is well worth the trip. --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever ...

This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience o...

Why is cows milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the popul...

Danish physician and anatomist Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the most important anatomists of the 17th century. As a scientist, his great...

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy...

A groundbreaking new history of global health from one of the greatest leaders in the field.In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. ...