Making Sense of Illness

Robert A Aronowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in ... Lees meer

Spreading Germs

Michael Worboys

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the nature and causes of infectious diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical prof... Lees meer

Charitable Knowledge

Susan C Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The m... Lees meer

The Physical and the Moral

Elizabeth A Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book explores the tradition of the "science of man" in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the "p... Lees meer

From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry

Robert E Kohler

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical speciality evolved into a large and powe... Lees meer

Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages

Joan Cadden

• Hardcover | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Explores how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in broader cultural assumptions about gender, and discusses ... Lees meer

Making Sense of Illness

Robert A Aronowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in ... Lees meer

Victorian Lunacy

Samuel Edward Dole Shortt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-c... Lees meer

Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence

Ann G Carmichael

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black ... Lees meer

Charitable Knowledge

Susan C Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The m... Lees meer

The Progress of Experiment

Harry M Marks

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book explores the origins of our contemporary system of drug regulation and the modern clinical trial. Marks illustrates the symbiotic relationsh... Lees meer

Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935

John M Eyler

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed a significant improvement in the health of the British people and an unprecedented expansion of state... Lees meer

Public Health in Papua New Guinea

Donald Denoon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule... Lees meer

Mission and Method

Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration... Lees meer

The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

Roger Cooter

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century concentrates on the social and ideological functions of sci... Lees meer

Morbid Appearances

Maulitz Russell Charles Maulitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• A detailed account of the rise of pathological anatomy in France and England. Lees meer

Ordered to Care

Susan M Reverby

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untraine... Lees meer

Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945

Paul Weindling

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources, this study analyzes the origins, social composition and impact of eugenics in the context of... Lees meer

The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820

Thomas H Broman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• By examining German university medicine between 1750 and 1820, this book presents a new interpretation of the emergence of modern medical science. It ... Lees meer

The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London

Doreen Evenden

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Midwives, as a group, have been dismis... Lees meer

Last Resort

Jack D Pressman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the puta... Lees meer

Medicine Before the Plague

Michael R McVaugh

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the extensive archival material and contemporary writings whi... Lees meer

The Colonial Disease

Lyons Maryinez Lyons

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'. Lees meer

Traumatic Pasts

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Trauma--the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse--has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay cri... Lees meer