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

Anne R Hanley

• Hardcover | 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

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

A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities and Projects

Miguel García-Sancho, James Lowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to th... 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

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

A History of British Eugenics Since 1865

David Redvaldsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galton ... 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 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

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

Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain

Ryosuke Yokoe

• Paperback | 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

Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860-1914

Tinne Claes

• Hardcover | 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

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

Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

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

• Paperback | 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

A History of Prostate Cancer

Helen Valier

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help co... 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

• 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

Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Suryakanthie Chetty

• Hardcover | 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

Blood Groups and Human Heredity, 1900-1950

William H Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth centur... 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

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 Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700-1949

Di Lu

• Hardcover | 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

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