Patterns of Plague

Lori Jones

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not c... Lees meer

Ethnopsychiatry

Henri F Ellenberger

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social grou... Lees meer

A New Field in Mind

Frank W Stahnisch

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• In recent decades, developments in research technologies and therapeutic advances have generated immense public recognition for neuroscience. However,... Lees meer

Caregiving on the Periphery

Myra Rutherdale

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• Assembling scholars from nursing, women's studies, geography, native studies, and history, this volume looks at the experience of nurses in Newfoundla... Lees meer

Foreign Practices

Sasha Mullally, David Wright

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas... Lees meer

Bodily Subjects

Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, Wendy Mitchinson

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the stre... Lees meer

Caregiving on the Periphery

Myra Rutherdale

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• Assembling scholars from nursing, women's studies, geography, native studies, and history, this volume looks at the experience of nurses in Newfoundla... Lees meer

Sars in Context

Jacalyn Duffin, Arthur Sweetman

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• Less than a year after the SARS outbreak in Toronto and well before the official reports were written, physicians involved in the control of the SARS ... Lees meer

The Smile Gap

Catherine Carstairs

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, an... Lees meer

An Ambulance on Safari

Melissa Diane Armstrong

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern A... Lees meer

In the Public Good

C Elizabeth Koester

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, and ... Lees meer

Into the House of Old

Megan J Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• Spanning the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, this publication details the lives and survival strategies of elderly people as they struggle to rema... Lees meer

In the Public Good

C Elizabeth Koester

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, and ... Lees meer

Carving a Niche

Luz María Hernández Sáenz

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of th... Lees meer

Broken

Madeline C Burghardt

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• After 133 years of operation, the 2009 closure of Ontario's government-run institutions for people with intellectual disabilities has allowed accounts... Lees meer

Sars in Context

Jacalyn Duffin, Arthur Sweetman

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• Less than a year after the SARS outbreak in Toronto and well before the official reports were written, physicians involved in the control of the SARS ... Lees meer

Transforming Medical Education

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and ... Lees meer

Ethnopsychiatry

Henri F Ellenberger

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social grou... Lees meer

Expelling the Plague

Zlata Blazina Tomic, Vesna Blazina

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire... Lees meer

Broken

Madeline C Burghardt

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• After 133 years of operation, the 2009 closure of Ontario's government-run institutions for people with intellectual disabilities has allowed accounts... Lees meer

The War Diary of Clare Gass

Clare Gass

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• During the First World War Clare Gass spent four years as a lieutenant and nursing sister in the medical corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Th... Lees meer

Telling the Flesh

Sonja Boon

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 medical consultation le... Lees meer

Carving a Niche

Luz María Hernández Sáenz

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of th... Lees meer

Small Matters, 39

Mona Gleason

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the Hi
• What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona ... Lees meer