Disabled Children

Anne Borsay

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The e... Lees meer

The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Barry M Doyle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of m... Lees meer

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Heather R Beatty

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nerv... Lees meer

Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• The use of biologics - drugs made from living organisms - has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained i... Lees meer

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array o... Lees meer

Health and Citizenship

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state... Lees meer

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteen... Lees meer

A Modern History of the Stomach

Ian Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework... Lees meer

Locating Health

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented - ... Lees meer

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Heather R Beatty

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nerv... Lees meer

A Modern History of the Stomach

Ian Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework... Lees meer

Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945-85

Mark Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this colle... Lees meer

Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred ye... Lees meer

Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955

John Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare... Lees meer

A Medical History of Skin

Kevin Patrick Siena

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart th... Lees meer

Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960

Lynne Fallwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this l... Lees meer

Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

Bernd Gausemeier

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors e... Lees meer

Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960

Lynne Fallwell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this l... Lees meer

Locating Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented - ... Lees meer

Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955

John Stewart

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare... Lees meer

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array o... Lees meer

War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793-1830

Catherine Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the 'military medical officer' and places their work within the broader conte... Lees meer

A Medical History of Skin

Kevin Patrick Siena

• Paperback | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart th... Lees meer

The Care of Older People

Mayumi Hayashi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, usin... Lees meer