The Filth Disease

Jacob Steere-Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 49
• Typhoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain. It was one of the most prolific d... Lees meer

Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition

Alexander Mercer

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 31
• Since the eighteenth century, chronic diseases have superseded acute infectious diseases as the predominant cause of morbidity and mortality; age at d... Lees meer

The Origins of Organ Transplantation

Thomas Schlich

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 18
• This book investigates a crucial-but forgotten-episode in the history of medicine. In it, Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the ear... Lees meer

Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 43
• During the twentieth century, film came to be seen as a revolutionary technology that could entertain, document, instruct, and transform a mass audien... Lees meer

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World

Rose Rose Holz

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 21
• An examination of the complex interrelationship between charity birth control clinics and the commercial marketplace in the United States through the ... Lees meer

The Filth Disease

Jacob Steere-Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 49
• Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as ... Lees meer

Origins of Organ Transplantation

Thomas Schlich

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 18
• A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery. This book investigates a crucial -- but forgotten -- e... Lees meer

Marriage of Convenience

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 8
• Offers a nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and Mexico's Departamento de Salubrida... Lees meer

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:

Christopher Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 5
• In the first half of the twentieth century, reformers attempted to use the knowledge and practices of the laboratory sciences to radically transform m... Lees meer

Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic

Sarah E Naramore

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 52
• Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) casts a long shadow over American medicine as well as over the social and political history of the American republic. The Ph... Lees meer

Medicine's Moving Pictures

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 10
• Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films. This groundbreaking book a... Lees meer

International Relations in Psychiatry

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 15
• International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry... Lees meer

Death, Modernity, and the Body

Eva Åhrén

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 14
• A provocative study that explores medical, social, cultural, and aesthetic customs and practices of treating the dead body in Sweden in an era of mode... Lees meer

Shifting Boundaries of Public Health

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 12
• New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe. European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impu... Lees meer

Marriage of Convenience

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 8
• In January 1921, after a decade of bloody warfare, Mexico's new government found an unlikely partner in its struggle to fulfill the Revolution's promi... Lees meer

John W. Thompson

Paul J Weindling, Paul Weindling

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 17
• John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to s... Lees meer

Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China

Xiaoping Fang

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 23
• The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine. In 1968, at the height of t... Lees meer

Healthy Boundaries

James G Hanley

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 35
• Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property... Lees meer

Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury

David Cantor

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 50
• The story of a forgotten health education film, Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950), and what it tells us about mid-twentieth century North Ameri... Lees meer

Ludwik Hirszfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 16
• An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to inte... Lees meer

Save the Babies

Richard Alan Meckel

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 32
• A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to red... Lees meer

The Lobotomy Letters

Mical Raz

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 25
• Drawing from original correspondence penned by lobotomy patients and their families as well as from the professional papers of lobotomy pioneer and ne... Lees meer

Rethinking the Public Fetus

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 53
• Exploring a wide variety of visualizations of pregnancy and fetuses through 300 years of history, this timely volume offers a fresh look at the influe... Lees meer

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:

Christopher Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 5
• This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical w... Lees meer