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

Migrant Architects of the Nhs

Julian Simpson

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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
• Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infectio... Lees meer

Communicating the History of Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 31
• Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history. This collection offers a range of... 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

Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780-1890

Alannah Tomkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 5
• This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad ... Lees meer

Progress and Pathology

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 21
• This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With ca... Lees meer

Vaccinating Britain

Gareth Millward

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 17
• Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It exp... 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

The Politics of Vaccination

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Histories of Medicine | nr. 9
• Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of... 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

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

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