History Of Medicine

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible...

In the Anatomy lessons that were painted for the Surgeons Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection...

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the ninet...

Until the mid-nineteenth century the Western medical tradition rested firmly on the foundations established in Classical Greece and later transmitt...

Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely exp...

Lanfranc of Milan is one of the most influential medieval surgeons and his Latin works informed surgical practice until the seventeenth century. Bo...

This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies.Focusing on the emergence of dementia studies as a discrete area of academic i...

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...