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

Bacteriology in British India

Pratik Chakrabarti

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 22
• During the nineteenth century, European scientists and physicians considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens. Hot and miasmic, the tropical ... Lees meer

Beriberi in Modern Japan

Alexander R Bay

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 24
• The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880... 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

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

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

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

Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945

Thuy Linh Nguyen

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 37
• This book explores the interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, examining how these interactions shaped maternal and... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Kristy Wilson Bowers

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 26
• Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century S... 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

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

John W. Thompson

Paul Weindling

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 17
• Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwor... Lees meer

The Mechanization of the Heart:

Thomas Fuchs

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 1
• In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-centur... Lees meer

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 30
• The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what the World Health Organization described as "the single most devastating infectious... Lees meer

The Politics of Vaccination

Deborah Brunton

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 11
• The introduction of public vaccination was among the greatest of public health triumphs. By the end of the nineteenth century, legislation framed and ... Lees meer

The Hidden Affliction

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 46
• A multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untr... 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

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