Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine

Martin D Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 15
• Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore... Lees meer

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840-1948

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 44
• Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodologi... Lees meer

Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 38
• This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known sc... Lees meer

Publics and Their Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 45
• The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention ha... Lees meer

Spectacles and the Victorians

Gemma Almond-Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 47
• This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visua... Lees meer

The Malleable Body

Heidi Hausse

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 52
• This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writ... Lees meer

Migrant Architects of the Nhs

Julian Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 12
• Migrant architects of the NHS draws on forty-five oral history interviews and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the Na... Lees meer

Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 40
• The early 2020s marked the fortieth anniversary of the first confirmed cases of AIDS and a new wave of historical interest in the ongoing epidemic. Th... Lees meer

Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture

Emily Cock

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 25
• Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, R... Lees meer

Germs and Governance

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 27
• Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infectio... Lees meer

Motherhood Confined

Rachel E Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 54
• When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mi... Lees meer

Madness on Trial

James Moran

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 23
• This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil... Lees meer

Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 8
• Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence... Lees meer

Germs and Governance

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 27
• Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infectio... Lees meer

Sickness, Medical Welfare and the English Poor, 1750-1834

Steven King

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 14
• At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; ... Lees meer

Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 51
• The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. T... Lees meer

Cold, Hard Steel

Agnes Arnold-Forster

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 46
• Brilliant, volatile and invariably male, the surgeon stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable part of western culture. Setting out to ana... Lees meer

Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 34
• The National Health Service has provided Britain's healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its in... Lees meer

Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture

Emily Cock

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 25
• Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi's rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, R... Lees meer

Madness on Trial

James Moran

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 23
• This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil... Lees meer

The Metamorphosis of Autism

Bonnie Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 2
• What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have ... Lees meer

Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 28
• This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland. Of particular note is t... Lees meer

Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48

George Campbell Gosling

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 4
• This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within... Lees meer

Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 60
• This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses ca... Lees meer