The Return of Epidemics

Marcos Cueto

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations. The stu... Lees meer

Maritime Quarantine

John Booker

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, th... Lees meer

Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500�1800

Alisha Rankin

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began t... Lees meer

Crafting Immunity

Jennifer Keelan

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of atte... Lees meer

Reinventing Hippocrates

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethic... Lees meer

Centres of Medical Excellence?

Andrew Cunningham

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been t... Lees meer

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Jharna Gourlay

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj presents in detail Nightingale's involvement with India and Indians, and shows how she progressed from ... Lees meer

Melancholy and the Care of the Soul

Jeremy Schmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians... Lees meer

Before My Helpless Sight

Leo Van Bergen

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• This book examines military victims of the First World War, looking at what could happen to a soldier from the moment he got on the train that brought... Lees meer

The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease

K Codell Carter

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the ca... Lees meer

The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal

Laurinda Abreu

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this... Lees meer

The Body Divided

Sally Wilde

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have... Lees meer

The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

Ole Peter Grell

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University ... Lees meer

Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universit... Lees meer

Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France

Tim McHugh

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were bu... Lees meer

Civic Medicine

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often... Lees meer

The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal

Laurinda Abreu

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this... Lees meer

Plague Hospitals

Jane L Stevens Crawshaw

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in par... Lees meer

Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of ... Lees meer

Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

Michael Stolberg

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the live... Lees meer

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Jharna Gourlay

• Paperback | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• In Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj, Jharna Gourlay covers aspects of Florence Nightingale's work, tracing her political involvement and... Lees meer

From Clinic to Concentration Camp

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a... Lees meer

The Anatomist Anatomis'd

Andrew Cunningham

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy i... Lees meer

With Words and Knives

Lynda Payne

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Medicine in Context
• The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especiall... Lees meer