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

Health and Wealth

Simon Szreter

• Paperback | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 6
• Essays seeking to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's national and international policy concerns and to present original historical res... Lees meer

Charles Nicolle Pasteur's Imperial Missionary

Kim Pelis

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 7
• Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle's scie... 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

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

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

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

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

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Kristy Wilson Bowers

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 26
• This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague. Plagu... Lees meer

Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition

Alexander Mercer

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 31
• Examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases to chronic diseases as the predominant causes of death, pres... Lees meer

The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel

Shifra Shvarts

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 2
• The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel. The history of Kupat Holim, the health organizat... 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 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 Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 30
• Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gend... Lees meer

The Hidden Affliction

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 46
• Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surpr... Lees meer

Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 51
• Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its gro... 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

Intrusive Interventions

Graham Mooney

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 33
• Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets... Lees meer

Health and Zionism

Shifra Shvarts

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 13
• An exploration of the major conflicts and historic events that shaped the current Israeli health care system. In this follow-up to her 2002 book, The ... 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

The Lobotomy Letters

Mical Raz

• Hardcover | Engels | Rochester Studies in Medical History | nr. 25
• The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history of modern medicine. By the late 1950... 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