Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plagu... Lees meer

Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Suryakanthie Chetty

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War... Lees meer

Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain

Ryosuke Yokoe

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous impli... Lees meer

Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948

Ornella Moscucci

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. ... Lees meer

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700-1949

Di Lu

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. ... Lees meer

Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Explores for the first time the social, cultural and medical history of human corpses and burials comparatively Offers insight into an international s... Lees meer

The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain

María Jesús Santesmases

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Provides an in-depth analysis of the history and circulation of penicillin in Spain Brings together scientific, medical, social, political and industr... Lees meer

Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when ... Lees meer

Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening ex... Lees meer

Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plagu... Lees meer

Modern Flu

Michael Bresalier

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications for understanding a... Lees meer

Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860-1914

Tinne Claes

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. C... Lees meer

The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Natasha Szuhan

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Asso... Lees meer

Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way th... Lees meer

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970

Stuart Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separate... Lees meer

The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Natasha Szuhan

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Asso... Lees meer

Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way th... Lees meer

Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967

Violetta Hionidou

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill b... Lees meer

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War

David Durnin

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while al... Lees meer

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

Sally Frampton

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth cent... Lees meer

Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, Rachel Mason Dentinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern me... Lees meer

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970

Stuart Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separate... Lees meer

Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

Anne R Hanley

• Paperback | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public im... Lees meer

The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England

Alan Mackintosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Reveals that patent medicines constituted a national industry in Georgian England, challenging accounts of dishonest quackery described later by docto... Lees meer