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  • The Care of Older People
    Mayumi Hayashi
    Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms. ...
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    85,14 €

  • The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700-1900
    Fiona Hutton
    Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for bodies over two centuries. ...
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    93,70 €

  • Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960
    Lynne Fallwell
    Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a separation of midwifery from modern medicine, in Germany new standards of health care were embraced. Fallwell’s study explores this transition and sets it in its wider historical context. ...
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    93,40 €

  • Medicine and Colonialism
    Poonam Bala
    Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories. ...
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    61,12 €

  • The Germ of an Idea
    Margaret DeLacy
    Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain.  The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the understanding of acute diseases. ...
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    107,81 €

  • Framing the moron
    Gerald O’Brien / Gerald V. O’Brien / Gerald VO'Brien / Gerald VO’Brien
    Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. ...
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    28,50 €

  • Celestial Lancets
    Gwei-Djen Lu / Joseph Needham
    This study of two ancient therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine gives a full account of both methods in the theoretical structure of Chinese medicine, combined with a rationale in the light of modern scientific knowledge. ...
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    245,07 €

  • Plagues in World History
    Aberth / John Aberth
    Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. John Aberth considers not only their varied impact but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes. Our ability to alter disease, ev...
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    47,42 €

  • The neurologists
    Stephen Casper / Stephen T. Casper / Stephen TCasper
    Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists ...
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    31,82 €

  • The Clock and the Mirror
    Nancy G. Siraisi / Nancy GSiraisi
    Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano’s medical writings to ...
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    95,10 €

  • Beyond the state
    Anna Greenwood
    The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collab...
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    170,01 €

  • Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930
    Graeme Gooday / Karen Sayer
    This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated  in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing status of ’hard of hearing’ people during the nineteenth century as categorized among diverse and changing categories of ’deafness’. Then we explore the advisory literature for managing hearing loss, and techniques for comm...
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    66,52 €

  • Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
    David Gentilcore
    Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary advice covering the...
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    193,42 €

  • From the Greenwich Hulks to Old St Pancras
    G. C. Cook
    Cook explores the development of clinical tropical medicine from the 19th century onwards by following the pioneering doctors in this discipline, their personalities, achievements and scientific breakthroughs. ...
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    225,58 €

  • The Mendelian Revolution
    Peter J. Bowler
    An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism. ...
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    226,27 €

  • Insects, Hygiene and History
    James Ronald Busvine
    Busvine’s introductory account of the evolutionary histories of insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human reactions to ectoparasites. It shows how the extent of man’s curiosity about them and references to their prevalence provide a continuous commentary both on the history of biological science from Aristotle to the present day and on the modes and manners of ...
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    245,55 €

  • Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two
    The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth century to the contemporary era. The ess...
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    157,13 €

  • Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One
    This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period. Themes include theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public ...
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    120,61 €

  • Pain
    Keith Wailoo
    People in chronic pain have always sought relief--and have always been judged--but who decides whether someone is truly in pain? In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain and compassionate relief define a line between society's liberal trends and conservative tendencies. Tracing the development of pain theories in politics, medicine, law,...
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    34,12 €

  • China Syndrome
    Karl Taro Greenfeld
    'China Syndrome is a fast-moving, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction thriller that doubles as an excellent primer of emerging infections for scientists and laypeople alike. But that’s not all. For readers more captivated by world politics than by microbiology, its chief strength, beyond the superb writing, is a detailed look at China’s culture of secrecy in the throes of a global p...
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    14,75 €

  • The Medieval Islamic Hospital
    Ahmed Ragab
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    153,70 €

  • Blood Cultures
    Cathy Hannabach
    Offering a cultural history of blood as it was mobilized across twentieth-century U.S. medicine, militarisms, and popular culture, Hannabach examines the ways that blood has saturated the cultural imaginary. ...
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    65,66 €

  • Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia
    C. F. Goodey
    This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came about, describes their more recent evolution in the formal disciplines of psychology, and shows the direct relevance of this historical knowledge to present and future policy, practice and research. ...
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    268,29 €

  • In the Crucible of Chronic Lyme Disease
    M.D Kenneth BLiegner / M.D. Kenneth B. Liegner
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    30,68 €

  • In the Crucible of Chronic Lyme Disease
    M.D. Kenneth B. Liegner / M.DKenneth BLiegner
    Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.D. returned to Westchester County, home of his Alma Mater, New York Medical College, to start a private practice. Unwittingly, he had 'p...
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    25,97 €

  • Insanity, identity and empire
    Catharine Coleborne
    Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne’s study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. ...
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    43,16 €

  • The Last Children’s Plague
    Richard J. Altenbaugh
    Poliomyelitis, better known as polio, thoroughly stumped the medical science community. Polio’s impact remained highly visible and sometimes lingered, exacting a priceless physical toll on its young victims and their families as well as transforming their social worlds. This social history of infantile paralysis is plugged into the rich and dynamic developments of the United St...
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    132,50 €

  • Deadly Encounters
    Peter Curson
    This book is written from an interdisciplinary perspective combining elements of Medical Demography, Public Health, History and Geography. There is much we have to learn from past epidemic encounters and how society responded to such crises. Recent outbreaks of Swine Flu, Avian Flu and now ebola demonstrate how little we really understand about the human response in such circ...
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    23,75 €

  • An Outline of Psychiatry in Clinical Lectures
    This work is a collection of Carl Wenicke’s lectures on neuropsychiatry translated into English for the first time. Beginning with basic concepts about normal brain function, the book moves to clinical topics, dealing first with chronic mental disorders and ’paranoid states’, and then to the more complex area of acute mental disorders. Many of the featured topics are still cl...
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    210,68 €

  • Evolutionäre Medizin
    Werner Buselmaier
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    21,13 €


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