Global Health Histories – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Global Health Histories. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
24 produkter
When Disease Came to This Country
Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America
Av Liza Piper
Inbunden, 2023
1848 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial, and colonial relationships …
When Disease Came to This Country
Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America
Av Liza Piper
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial, and colonial relationships …
Difference and Disease
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Av Suman Seth
Häftad, 2020
459 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers …
Difference and Disease
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Av Suman Seth
Inbunden, 2018
653 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers …
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
Inbunden, 2018
1305 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization …
Nurturing Indonesia
Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Av Hans Pols
Inbunden, 2018
1420 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hans Pols proposes a new perspective on the history of colonial medicine from the viewpoint of indigenous physicians. The Indonesian medical profession in the Dutch East Indies actively participated in political affairs by joining and leading nationalist associations, by publishing in newspapers …
Mapping AIDS
Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic
Inbunden, 2018
1323 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this innovative study, Lukas Engelmann examines visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS. Utilising medical AIDS atlases produced between 1986 and 2008 for a global audience, Engelmann argues that these visual textbooks played a …
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
Häftad, 2021
586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization …
Nurturing Indonesia
Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Av Hans Pols
Häftad, 2025
469 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hans Pols proposes a new perspective on the history of colonial medicine from the viewpoint of indigenous physicians. The Indonesian medical profession in the Dutch East Indies actively participated in political affairs by joining and leading nationalist associations, by publishing in newspapers …
Mapping AIDS
Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic
Häftad, 2020
557 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this innovative study, Lukas Engelmann examines visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS. Utilising medical AIDS atlases produced between 1986 and 2008 for a global audience, Engelmann argues that these visual textbooks played a …
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam under French rule. Laurence Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking …
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam
Inbunden, 2019
1677 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam under French rule. Laurence Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking …
The World Health Organization
A History
Av Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1559 kr
Lägg i varukorg
According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how …
The Great Plague Scare of 1720
Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Av Cindy Ermus
Inbunden, 2022
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as well as new understandings about the nature of …
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa
Medical Encounters, 1500–1850
Inbunden, 2021
1475 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle Kananoja focuses on African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows …
The Yellow Flag
Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant, missionary, letter, and trade good arriving from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Most of these quarantines occurred …
The World Health Organization
A History
Av Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
515 kr
Lägg i varukorg
According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how …
The Great Plague Scare of 1720
Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Av Cindy Ermus
Häftad, 2025
435 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as well as new understandings about the nature of …
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa
Medical Encounters, 1500–1850
Häftad, 2022
435 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle Kananoja focuses on African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows …
Population Politics in the Tropics
Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samuël Coghe sheds new light on the history …
Statistics and the Language of Global Health
Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960
Av Yi-Tang Lin
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, this study investigates efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations, and …
Population Politics in the Tropics
Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola
Av Samuël Coghe
Häftad, 2024
393 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samuël Coghe sheds new light on the history …
Statistics and the Language of Global Health
Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960
Av Yi-Tang Lin
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, this study investigates efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations, and …
The Yellow Flag
Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860
Inbunden, 2020
1305 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant, missionary, letter, and trade good arriving from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Most of these quarantines occurred …
