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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. …
Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870
Häftad, 2008
921 kr
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This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history …
From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry
The Making of a Biomedical Discipline
Häftad, 2008
787 kr
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This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical speciality evolved into a large and powerful academic discipline. Drawing extensively on little-used archival sources, the author analyses in detail how biomedical science became a central …
Vital Accounts
Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Why did Europeans begin to count births and deaths? How did they collect the numbers and what did they do with them? Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical …
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Britain, 1800-1854
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health in Britain, when the poor law bureaucrat Edwin Chadwick conceived his vision of public health through public works and began the campaign for the construction of the kinds of water and sewage works that ultimately became the …
Traumatic Pasts
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930
Av Mark S. Micale, Paul Lerner
Häftad, 2010
435 kr
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Traumatic Pasts, originally published in 2001, offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture and society in modern European and American history. Its primary goals are: to provide a generous sampling of the best of the historical scholarship about trauma; to indicate …
Victorian Lunacy
Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Häftad, 2011
672 kr
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Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum - is …
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 …
The Renaissance Notion of Woman
A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life
Av Ian Maclean
Häftad, 1983
248 kr
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This study of the world of scholarship and scholarly texts in the Renaissance, the so-called respublica literaria, affords insights into the intellectual infrastructure and modes of thought of the period by its examination of contemporary attitudes towards women. It addresses the questions: What is …
Ordered to Care
The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945
Häftad, 1987
328 kr
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An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untrained nurses in the years between 1850 and 1945. Ordered to Care provides an overall history of nursing's development and places that growth within the …
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 …
Charitable Knowledge
Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London
Inbunden, 1996
1777 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 …
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 …
Science and Empire
East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal
Inbunden, 1991
1473 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. …
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 …
Legal Medicine in History
Av Michael Clark, Catherine Crawford
Inbunden, 1994
1928 kr
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This collection of essays presents fresh interpretations of the growth of medico-legal ideas, institutions and practices in Britain, Europe and America over the past four hundred years. Based on a wealth of new research, it brings the historical study of legal medicine firmly into the realm of …
Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Inbunden, 1991
1828 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 …
Bilharzia
A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine
Av John Farley
Inbunden, 1991
1598 kr
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The advent of tropical medicine was a direct consequence of European and American imperialism, when military personnel, colonial administrators, businessmen, and settlers encountered a new set of diseases endemic to the tropics. Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations 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 Physical and the Moral
Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850
Inbunden, 1994
1693 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 …
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, …
Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935
Inbunden, 1997
1861 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 …
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 …
