History Of Medicine

Scientific Practices in European History, 12001800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as C...

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East wi...

A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the bio...

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one anot...

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernit...

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from gove...

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...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...