Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship a... Lees meer

Women and Smoking since 1890

Rosemary Elliot

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 29
• The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggest... Lees meer

Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

Waltraud Ernst

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• This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on ... Lees meer

Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 10
• This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. A range of importa... Lees meer

Health and the Modern Home

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 31
• Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Draw... Lees meer

Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968

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• Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously ab... Lees meer

Contagion

Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker

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• Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also inve... Lees meer

Reassessing Foucault

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• Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implication... Lees meer

New Directions in Nursing History

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 22
• This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. Covering a range from... Lees meer

Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment

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• This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of ... Lees meer

The Locus of Care

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• The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the Sta... Lees meer

Midwives, Society and Childbirth

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• Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and int... Lees meer

Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830

Leonard Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 28
• Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Usi... Lees meer

Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 22
• Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship a... Lees meer

Health and the Modern Home

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Draw... Lees meer

Sex, Sin and Suffering

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 11
• This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies.... Lees meer

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

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• Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'in... Lees meer

Migrants, Minorities & Health

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• First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

Financing Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with... Lees meer

Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Niall Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine | nr. 23
• Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide... Lees meer

Shaping Sexual Knowledge

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• Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex educ... Lees meer

Nutrition in Britain

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• This selection of essays provides a valuable insight into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of n... Lees meer

Medicine and Colonial Identity

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis.... Lees meer

The Risks of Medical Innovation

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Presenting a new way of thinking about the risks of medical innovation, this volume considers the issues from a social historical perspective, and stu... Lees meer