Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine

Martin D Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 15
• Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says a... Lees meer

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840-1948

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 44
• This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories ca... Lees meer

Migrant Architects of the Nhs

Julian Simpson

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 12
• Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British g... Lees meer

Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 38
• This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapte... Lees meer

Publics and Their Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 45
• Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, th... Lees meer

Spectacles and the Victorians

Gemma Almond-Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 47
• This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption i... Lees meer

Migrant Architects of the Nhs

Julian Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 12
• Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British g... Lees meer

Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 40
• This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Foc... Lees meer

Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture

Emily Cock

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 25
• This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. Lees meer

The Malleable Body

Heidi Hausse

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 52
• This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to m... Lees meer

Germs and Governance

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 27
• This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insi... Lees meer

Communicating the History of Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 31
• Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions ... Lees meer

Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 60
• This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists ... Lees meer

Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890

Alannah Tomkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 5
• Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Confli... Lees meer

Progress and Pathology

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 21
• This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long ninete... Lees meer

Vaccinating Britain

Gareth Millward

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 17
• Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public... Lees meer

Madness on Trial

James Moran

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 23
• This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. Lees meer

Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 8
• Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern Engla... Lees meer

Germs and Governance

• Paperback | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 27
• This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insi... Lees meer

The Politics of Vaccination

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 9
• Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. Lees meer

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

Steven King

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 14
• This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and every... Lees meer

Cold, Hard Steel

Agnes Arnold-Forster

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 46
• Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this... 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 drinking. This book map... Lees meer

Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 34
• The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores ... Lees meer