A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept

C Prüll, A Maehle, R Halliwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the i... Lees meer

Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

J Toms

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hyg... Lees meer

The Invisible Industrialist

J Gaudillière

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key rol... Lees meer

Surgery and Society in Peace and War

R Cooter

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. ... Lees meer

Hearts Exposed

A Nathoo

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960's Britain, when the first wave of heart transplants were as much media as m... Lees meer

Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The aut... Lees meer

A History of Lung Cancer

C Timmermann

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and... Lees meer

Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs

A Mold, V Berridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering th... Lees meer

The Politics of Addiction

S Mars

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating ... Lees meer

Tissue Culture in Science and Society

D Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular publ... Lees meer

A History of Lung Cancer

C Timmermann

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and... Lees meer

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing

M García-Sancho

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this pra... Lees meer

Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs

A Mold, V Berridge

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering th... Lees meer

Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000

A Homei, M Worboys

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in ... Lees meer

Surgery, Science and Industry

T Schlich

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based associa... Lees meer

Tissue Culture in Science and Society

D Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular publ... Lees meer

Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range... Lees meer

Surgery and Society in Peace and War

R Cooter

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. ... Lees meer

Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These ar... Lees meer

Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients

J Anderson, F Neary, J Pickstone

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The Total Hip Replacement was invented by British surgeons after World War Two. It became the basis of a multi-billion global industry in joint replac... Lees meer

Rabies in Britain

N Pemberton, M Worboys

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile deat... Lees meer

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing

M García-Sancho

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this pra... Lees meer

Surgery, Science and Industry

T Schlich

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based associa... Lees meer

The Politics of Addiction

S Mars

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating ... Lees meer