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'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made. It has long been known that the English physician William Harvey (1578–1657) was a follower of Aristotle, but his most strikingly ‘modern’ and original discovery – of the …
Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy
Contested Deliveries
Inbunden, 2020
2582 kr
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Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Medical writers in this period devoted …
Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy
Contested Deliveries
Häftad, 2022
726 kr
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Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Medical writers in this period devoted …
Pathology in Practice
Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe
Av Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
728 kr
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Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different …
Plague, Print, and the Reformation
The German Reform of Healing, 1473�1573
Häftad, 2019
707 kr
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This book surveys a neglected set of sources, German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573, in order to explore the intertwined histories of plague, print, medicine and religion during the Reformation era. It argues that a particularly German reform of healing flourished in …
Nurse Apprentice, 1860–1977
Av Ann Bradshaw
Inbunden, 2001
2582 kr
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The British apprenticeship model of nurse training, developed under Florence Nightingale’s influence from 1860 at St Thomas’s Hospital, gained national and world-wide recognition. Its end was heralded with the publication of the last national syllabus from the General Nursing Council for England …
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe
Av Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham
Inbunden, 2002
2582 kr
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Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth …
Return of Epidemics
Health and Society in Peru During the Twentieth Century
Av Marcos Cueto
Inbunden, 2001
2582 kr
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Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations. The study of epidemics heightens our understanding of relationships between economic systems and living conditions. It illuminates the ideologies and …
Reinventing Hippocrates
Av David Cantor
Inbunden, 2001
2582 kr
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The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept that medicine has sometimes fallen short of Hippocratic ideals, these ideals are …
Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease
Case Histories
Inbunden, 2003
3262 kr
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Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as …
Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier
Inbunden, 2003
3262 kr
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One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and medicine. However, not all eighteenth century scientists and physicians believed …
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj
Inbunden, 2003
2576 kr
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Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj presents in detail Nightingale's involvement with India and Indians, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the narrow sphere of army sanitation to the socio-economic condition of the whole of India. Despite her interest in the country, …
Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2004
2582 kr
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Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their …
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Birth Control in South India, 1920–1940
Av Sarah Hodges
Inbunden, 2008
2576 kr
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Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucidate the peculiar slippages between individual …
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe
Av Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham
Inbunden, 2005
2576 kr
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The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are they a necessary presence for the true Christian to live the true Christian life? In the 18th and …
Hospital Care and the British Standing Army, 1660–1714
Inbunden, 2006
2576 kr
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At the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, amongst the first acts of Charles II's government was the abolition of the New Model Army and the sweeping away of the legislation and institutions that had supported it, including most of the medical provisions provided by the republican regime. …
Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941
Protecting the Collective
Inbunden, 2018
2576 kr
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In the first book to chart late Imperial and Soviet health policy and its impact on the health of the collective in Russia’s former capital and second "regime" city, Christopher Williams argues that in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg radical sections of the medical profession and the Bolsheviks …
Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe
Av Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell
Inbunden, 2007
2501 kr
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The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and …
Melancholy and the Care of the Soul
Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2007
3262 kr
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Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive …
Crafting Immunity
Working Histories of Clinical Immunology
Av Jennifer Keelan, Kenton Kroker
Inbunden, 2008
2576 kr
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Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the …
Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2009
2582 kr
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This book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630. Rejecting the imposition of modern conceptions of disease upon the past, it reveals how early modern medical theory facilitated …
Great Nation in Decline
Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850
Inbunden, 2007
2815 kr
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This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform …
Maritime Quarantine
The British Experience, c.1650–1900
Av John Booker
Inbunden, 2007
3143 kr
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As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, there was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating diseases into British territories. In this groundbreaking study, John Booker examines …
Anatomist Anatomis'd
An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe
Inbunden, 2010
2576 kr
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The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at …
Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2009
1560 kr
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The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. The great discoveries of Harvey and Jenner sit incongruously with the persistence of Galenic theory, superstition and blood-letting. Yet despite continued …
Centres of Medical Excellence?
Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789
Av Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell
Inbunden, 2010
2576 kr
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Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education since universities were first founded in the 13th century, making their own educational pilgrimage or …
Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter
Inbunden, 2012
2582 kr
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While the writings of early modern medical practitioners habitually touch on performance and ceremony, few illuminate them as clearly as the Protestant physicians Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger, who studied in Montpellier and practiced in their birth town of Basle, or the Catholic …
Body Divided
Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History
Inbunden, 2012
2815 kr
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Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and …
Forty Days
Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 – c. 1900
Av John Booker
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging …
Forty Days
Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 – c. 1900
Av John Booker
Häftad, 2023
659 kr
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Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging …
