Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine

R Bivins

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo... 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

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

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

Devices and Designs

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze ... Lees meer

Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary

M Turda

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• In 1900 Hungary was a regional power in Europe with imperial pretensions; by 1919 it was crippled by profound territorial, social and national transfo... Lees meer

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

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

A History of Prostate Cancer

Helen Valier

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help co... 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

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

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

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

The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer

Joanna Baines, Kenneth A Loparo

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and better training for paediatri... 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

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

Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

S Snow

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new inform... Lees meer

Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

S Snow

• Hardcover | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new inform... 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

Rabies in Britain

N Pemberton, M Worboys

• Hardcover | 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

Devices and Designs

• Paperback | Engels | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
• In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze ... 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

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

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