History Of Medicine

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

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic appr...

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic appr...

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ...

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...

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...