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The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
Av Doreen Evenden, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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This book is a comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Until quite recently, midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London …
Spreading Germs
Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900
Av Michael Worboys, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
426 kr
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Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine. …
Mystical Bedlam
Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Michael MacDonald, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 1983
435 kr
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Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634. Napier's clients were drawn …
Last Resort
Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
Av Jack D. Pressman, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1391 kr
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During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the putative purpose of treating mental illness. From today's perspective, such medical practices appear foolhardy at best, perhaps even barbaric; most …
Quality and Quantity
The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France
Av William H. Schneider, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1861 kr
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This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France …
The Physician-Legislators of France
Medicine and Politics in the Early Third Republic, 1870-1914
Av Jack D. Ellis, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1744 kr
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Between the birth of the Third Republic and the outbreak of World War I, French medical doctors gained a far-reaching influence over the political life of their country, serving as mayors on the local level and ranking second only to lawyers in parliament. Their frequent medical contact with the …
Preserve your Love for Science
Life of William A Hammond, American Neurologist
Av Bonnie Ellen Blustein, Charles Rosenberg
Inbunden, 1991
1962 kr
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William Alexander Hammond, M. D. (1828-1900), one of the most successful American physicians of the nineteenth century, was first recognized in the 1850s as a natural history collector and as an original investigator in physiological chemistry. Appointed surgeon general of the United States Army in …
Mission and Method
The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement
Av Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2146 kr
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In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between …
Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945
Av Paul Weindling, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 1993
854 kr
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Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around völkisch racial ideologies, overlooking the effects of racial ideas on biology and health. Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources, this book analyses the origins, social composition and impact of eugenics in the …
The Science of Woman
Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929
Av Ornella Moscucci, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 1993
435 kr
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Is women's destiny rooted in their biology? Since the end of the eighteenth century the science of gynaecology has legitimised the view that women are 'naturally' fitted for activities in the private sphere of the family. This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by …
International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939
Av Paul Weindling, Paul Weindling m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1780 kr
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This is a collection of original studies on the new international health and welfare organisations between the First and the Second World Wars. The diversity of such organisations and their many-sided activities make this a rich and complex area of historical investigation which has direct …
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
Benefactors and their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789
Av Sandra Cavallo, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1559 kr
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Through its examination of a city marginal to the Italian tradition of communes and city-states during the post-Renaissance period, the book offers an extended reassessment of what has been regarded as the typical Italian model of welfare. Acts of charity have often been interpreted either within a …
Public Health in British India
Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914
Av Mark Harrison, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
502 kr
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After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, …
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
Benefactors and their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789
Av Sandra Cavallo, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 1995
586 kr
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Through its examination of a city marginal to the Italian tradition of communes and city-states during the post-Renaissance period, the book offers an extended reassessment of what has been regarded as the typical Italian model of welfare. Acts of charity have often been interpreted either within a …
The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages
Medicine, Science, and Culture
Av Joan Cadden, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
356 kr
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In describing and explaining the sexes, medicine and science participated in the delineation of what was 'feminine' and what was 'masculine' in the Middle Ages. Hildegard of Bingen and Albertus Magnus, among others, writing about gynecology, the human constitution, fetal development, or the …
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884-1984
Av Donald Denoon, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the …
Science and Empire
East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal
Av Paul F. Cranefield, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
747 kr
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East Coast fever is a lethal disease of cattle, caused by a parasite that multiplies within T-lymphocytes, causing them to become lymphoblasts that behave like cells in leukaemia and lymphoma. This is the story of the disease and its effects on farmers, as well as of the scientists who studied it. …
The Colonial Disease
A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940
Av Maryinez Lyons, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 2002
719 kr
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The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of western bio-medicine as a central feature of their 'gift' to Africans. By 1930, however, it was clear that some features of their 'civilising mission' were in fact …
Morbid Appearances
The Anatomy of Pathology in the Early Nineteenth Century
Av Russell Charles Maulitz, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
938 kr
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When we consider how the scientific revolution came to medicine, we often think of the rise of the great laboratory disciplines of the nineteenth century. Often overlooked in these accounts, however, is the role of clinical medicine and its important early branch, pathology. Morbid Appearances …
Medicine before the Plague
Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345
Av Michael R. McVaugh, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 2002
435 kr
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This book describes the medical world of the early fourteenth century through a study of the extensive archival material and contemporary writings which exist for eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death. It describes the range of medical practice which then existed - a continuum ranging …
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820
Av Thomas H. Broman, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
720 kr
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By examining German university medicine between 1750 and 1820, this book presents a new interpretation of the emergence of modern medical science. It demonstrates that the development of modern medicine as a profession linking theory and practice did not emerge suddenly from the revolutionary …
Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935
Av John M. Eyler, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
803 kr
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The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed an unprecedented expansion of preventive and therapeutic services offered by the state through its local authorities. Behind the expansion in public services were also profound changes in attitudes toward poverty and dependency and toward the …
Last Resort
Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
Av Jack D. Pressman, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
603 kr
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During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the putative purpose of treating mental illness. From today's perspective, such medical practices appear foolhardy at best, perhaps even barbaric; most …
Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830
The Social World of Medical Practice
Av Matthew Ramsey, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
944 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides a richly detailed examination of medical practice as it existed in France during …
Quality and Quantity
The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France
Av William H. Schneider, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
803 kr
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This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France …
The Physical and the Moral
Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850
Av Elizabeth A. Williams, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 2002
804 kr
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This book explores the tradition of the 'science of man' in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the 'physical-moral' relation and their effects on the role of medicine in French society. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic …
Charitable Knowledge
Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London
Av Susan C. Lawrence, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
972 kr
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Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical teaching, medical knowledge, and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The metropolis lacked a university until the nineteenth century, so the seven major voluntary hospitals - St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, Guy's, the …
Joan Baptista Van Helmont
Reformer of Science and Medicine
Av Walter Pagel, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
821 kr
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Only comparatively recently have historians begun to recognize the importance and influence of Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644) in the history of medicine and chemistry. Van Helmont's theories on the nature of life, biological time, physiology and disease, the structure of matter, and the …
Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Av Mary E. Fissell, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 2002
938 kr
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In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book uses patients' perspectives to argue that changes in the …
Mission and Method
The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement
Av Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge, Charles Rosenberg
Häftad, 2002
737 kr
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In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between …
