History Of Medicine

Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evid...

David Livingstones Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book e...

During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, med...

How do we know which snakes are dangerous? This seemingly simple question caused constant concern for the white settlers who colonised Australia af...

In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Science does not know its debt to imagination, words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health ca...

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century ...

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cu...

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodim...

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be ...

The long overdue and definitive biography of the life and work of General William Crawford Gorgas.

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americafrom eugenics and posture pageants to todays promoters...

Born to fanatical religious zealots, deeply wounded by an unloving mother and a weak father whom he hated, Norman Bethune struggled throughout his ...

In this groundbreaking work, Susan L. Burns examines the history of leprosy in Japan from medieval times until the present. At the center of Kingdo...

Surgery in London and The Royal College of Surgeons of England 'Opportunities and Pitfalls' The Royal Commission on Medical Education (the Todd ...

Nicole Rices original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation. ...

A cultural, social, and medical history of migraine.For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currentl...

With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War vete...

This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading...

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an...

Eponyms are found throughout medicine. They provide succinct and convenient identification for diseases, syndromes, clinical signs, surgical instru...

Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixtee...

Volume VI in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits. The Ben cao gang...

Volume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of chapters 1 and 2 and portions of chapt...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions...

A comprehensive introduction to the concept of the intact mind and how it affects disability policy and practice. The concept of the intact mind, ...

With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbo...

Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in ...