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Uses of Humans in Experiment
Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century
Av Erika Dyck
Inbunden, 2016
2553 kr
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Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insights …
Medical Practice, 1600-1900
Physicians and Their Patients
Inbunden, 2015
2553 kr
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Drawing in particular on physicians’ casebooks, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 studies the changing nature of ordinary medical practice in early modern Europe. Combining case studies on individual German, Austrian and Swiss practitioners with a comparative analysis across the centuries, it offers the …
‘Doctors for Export’
Medical Migration from Ireland c.1860 to 1960
Av Greta Jones
Inbunden, 2021
2284 kr
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This is the first full-length study of doctor migration from Ireland covering roughly a century of the export of Irish medical graduates to other parts of the world. From 1860 around forty percent of Ireland’s medical graduates left to pursue careers elsewhere. The book examines the factors which …
Man Who Crucified Himself
Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Av Maria Böhmer
Inbunden, 2018
2656 kr
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The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and …
Translation at Work
Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age
Inbunden, 2020
2338 kr
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During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and …
Attributing Excellence in Medicine
The History of the Nobel Prize
Av Nils Hansson
Inbunden, 2019
1492 kr
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Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will help the reader to better understand the …
Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965
Ideas and Improvisations
Inbunden, 2020
2406 kr
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Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy …
Tracing Hospital Boundaries
Integration and Segregation in Southeastern Europe and Beyond, 1050-1970
Inbunden, 2020
2445 kr
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Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integration and segregation shaped hospitals and their communities between the eleventh and twentieth centuries in Europe, North America and Africa. Within this broad comparative context it also shines a light on a …
Anatomy of the Medical Image
Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today
Inbunden, 2021
2418 kr
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This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of …
History of Population Health
Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe
Inbunden, 2020
2511 kr
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Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardIn A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people’s health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a …
Making Physicians
Tradition, Teaching, and Trials at Leiden University, 1575-1639
Inbunden, 2022
2136 kr
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How did medical students become Galenic physicians in the early modern era? Making Physicians guides the reader through the ancient sources, textbooks, lecture halls, gardens, dissecting rooms, and patient bedsides in the early decades of an important medical school. Standard pedagogy combined book …
Battling Smallpox before Vaccination
Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2021
2173 kr
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When smallpox inoculation entered western medical practice in 1721 it aroused considerable controversy. A broad-based cohort of enlightened Germans such as publishers, poets, pastors and elite women attempted to dispel the doubts and encourage the innovative procedure. Yet many parents remained …
Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden
Medicine, Politics, and Public Controversy, 1530–2020
Inbunden, 2024
2963 kr
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In this timely and richly illustrated book, a group of multidisciplinary scholars explores the uses and handlings of fetuses, still-born, reproductive organs, and pregnant bodies for knowledge production, including the development of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, in Sweden over five hundred years. …
Making of Modern Hospitals in Central Europe between the Enlightenment and the Second World War
Inbunden, 2026
1841 kr
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This book fills an existing gap in the history of modern medicine by examining Central European hospitals. It does not subscribe to the “big bang theory” of the sudden rise of the modern hospital. Instead, it traces the (micro-)history of the municipal, university, and church hospitals, as well as …
Medicine and Modern Warfare
Av Roger Cooter
Häftad, 1999
700 kr
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After years at the margins of medical history, the relationship between war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage. The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of that relationship: the practice and development of medicine within the armed forces from the late nineteenth …
Medicine and Modern Warfare
Inbunden, 1999
2573 kr
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After years at the margins of medical history, the relationship between war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage. The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of that relationship: the practice and development of medicine within the armed forces from the late nineteenth …
Beast in the Mosquito
The Correspondence of Ronald Ross & Patrick Manson
Av W.F. Bynum
Inbunden, 1998
3503 kr
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The correspondence between Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) is rich in both scientific and human terms. It records, in great detail, Ross's research in India between 1895 and 1899, which elucidated the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria, work for which …
Drugs on Trial
Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth-Century
Inbunden, 1999
3367 kr
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Experimental pharmacology is often portrayed as a creation of the nineteenth century, the age of the sciences in medicine. This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed …
From Lesion to Metaphor
Chronic Pain in British, French and German Medical Writings, 1800-1914
Inbunden, 2000
2318 kr
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Most non-malignant chronic pain is medically unexplained. But that has not stopped doctors from trying. These improvisations at the limit of medical knowledge offer a way into the history of neurosis.Lesionless pain was a paradigmatic problem of clinical method after 1800. It was central to the …
Malthus, Medicine, & Morality
‘Malthusianism’ after 1798
Av Brain Dolan
Häftad, 2000
472 kr
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Thomas Robert Malthus's reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first edition of the Essay on Population (1798), …
Regenerating England
Science, Medicine and Culture in Inter-War Britain
Inbunden, 2000
1653 kr
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In the inter-war years there was much debate in Britain as to whether the best path to post-World War I regeneration would be found in the promises of science and technology, in continued and increased efficiency, in specialization and professionalization or whether the future of the nation …
Cultures of Neurasthenia
From Beard to the First World War
Häftad, 2001
901 kr
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Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than …
For Fear of Pain
British Surgery, 1790-1850
Häftad, 2003
882 kr
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Oh, you hurt me, Sir! … are you going to do it again? – A patient, 1832For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It …
Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
A Social History
Häftad, 2004
848 kr
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The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few women and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and …
Bacchic Medicine
Wine and Alcohol Therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox
Inbunden, 2001
2318 kr
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Wine has always been a part of popular medicine. Bacchic Medicine analyses the historical role of wine in the treatment of disease and preservation of health. The Hippocratic texts gave wine therapy a canonical statement over two millennia ago; but the nineteenth century was the golden age of …
Biographies of Remedies
Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures
Inbunden, 2002
1680 kr
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At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in …
New Medical Challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2005
2318 kr
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New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon.Commercial …
Irritating Experiments
Haller’s Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90
Inbunden, 2005
2318 kr
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One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller’s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752).Irritating Experiments is the first full-length study to explore the theoretical …
Healing Bodies, Saving Souls
Medical Missions in Asia and Africa
Inbunden, 2006
1630 kr
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Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor – exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer – exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteenth and …
British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
Inbunden, 2007
1644 kr
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Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on …
