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Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948
Inbunden, 2017
1128 kr
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This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900 have prominently targeted …
Modern Flu
British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890—1950
Inbunden, 2023
1688 kr
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Ninety years after the discovery of human influenza virus, Modern Flu traces the history of this breakthrough and its implications for understanding and controlling influenza ever since. Examining how influenza came to be defined as a viral disease in the first half of the twentieth century, it …
History of Prostate Cancer
Cancer, Men and Medicine
Av Helen Valier
Häftad, 2021
680 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help could be offered for men afflicted with the devastating diseases of the genitourinary organs. This is despite complaints of painful urination from …
History of Prostate Cancer
Cancer, Men and Medicine
Av Helen Valier
Inbunden, 2016
960 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help could be offered for men afflicted with the devastating diseases of the genitourinary organs. This is despite complaints of painful urination from …
Irish Medical Profession and the First World War
Av David Durnin
Inbunden, 2019
960 kr
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This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while also interrogating the effect of global war on the development of Ireland’s domestic medical infrastructure, especially its hospital network. The study …
Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
Av Alex Mold, Peder Clark m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
321 kr
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This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new …
Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914
Nobody’s Dead
Av Tinne Claes
Inbunden, 2019
960 kr
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This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with …
Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914
Nobody’s Dead
Av Tinne Claes
Häftad, 2020
854 kr
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This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with …
Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains
Histories of Non-Human Disease Vectors
Inbunden, 2019
1576 kr
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This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to …
Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains
Histories of Non-Human Disease Vectors
Häftad, 2020
1576 kr
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This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to …
Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967
Medicine, Sexuality and Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2020
1016 kr
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The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abortion and contraception within the historiography of the fertility decline and the question of whether …
Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967
Medicine, Sexuality and Popular Culture
Häftad, 2021
1016 kr
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The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abortion and contraception within the historiography of the fertility decline and the question of whether …
Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
Inbunden, 2021
1912 kr
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This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate …
Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
Häftad, 2022
1912 kr
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This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate …
Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970
Inbunden, 2021
1464 kr
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Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the Pharmaceutical Society of …
Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970
Häftad, 2022
1464 kr
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Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the Pharmaceutical Society of …
Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2022
1576 kr
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This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association’s role in designing and supporting scientific …
Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2023
1576 kr
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This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association’s role in designing and supporting scientific …
History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
Av Miguel García-Sancho, James Lowe
Inbunden, 2023
568 kr
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This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives to map and sequence the genomes of various …
History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
Av Miguel García-Sancho, James Lowe
Häftad, 2023
455 kr
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This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives to map and sequence the genomes of various …
Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology
Patterns, Populations and Pathologies
Av Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1128 kr
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This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way that both infectious and chronic diseases are conceptualized and controlled, and, more generally, on the way that people in modern societies think …
Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology
Patterns, Populations and Pathologies
Av Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1128 kr
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This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way that both infectious and chronic diseases are conceptualized and controlled, and, more generally, on the way that people in modern societies think …
Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949
A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus
Av Di Lu
Inbunden, 2023
1576 kr
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This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth …
Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949
A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus
Av Di Lu
Häftad, 2024
1576 kr
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This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth …
Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2023
1576 kr
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The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to be understood as an …
Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2024
1576 kr
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The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to be understood as an …
Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa
The Professional and Public Life of Jack Penn
Inbunden, 2023
1464 kr
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This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn’s private practice, and his work in diverse countries, including Gabon, Japan and Israel, as he sought to …
Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa
The Professional and Public Life of Jack Penn
Häftad, 2024
1464 kr
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This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn’s private practice, and his work in diverse countries, including Gabon, Japan and Israel, as he sought to …
Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960
Av Mauro Capocci, Daniele Cozzoli
Inbunden, 2024
1576 kr
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This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imperialism outside of the British Empire, drawing on case studies from other colonial experiences …
Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960
Av Mauro Capocci, Daniele Cozzoli
Häftad, 2025
1576 kr
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This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imperialism outside of the British Empire, drawing on case studies from other colonial experiences …
