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In the Name of the Child
Av Roger Cooter
Inbunden, 1992
2578 kr
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Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around …
Reassessing Foucault
Power, Medicine and the Body
Inbunden, 1994
2504 kr
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Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.Focusing on the social history of medicine, …
Migrants, Minorities & Health
Historical and Contemporary Studies
Av Lara Marks, Michael Worboys
Inbunden, 1997
2578 kr
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How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world in order to examine the complex relations between health …
Nutrition in Britain
Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Av David Smith
Inbunden, 1996
3262 kr
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This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritional knowledge during the twentieth century. The …
From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency
Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities
Inbunden, 1996
2578 kr
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From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the …
Locus of Care
Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity
Av Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith
Inbunden, 1997
2578 kr
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The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was …
Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700
Av Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell
Inbunden, 1997
2578 kr
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The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an …
Midwives, Society and Childbirth
Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period
Av Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty
Inbunden, 1997
2578 kr
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Midwives, Society and Childbirth is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on a national and international scale. Focusing on six countries from Europe, the approach is interdisciplinary with the studies written by a diverse team of social, …
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe
Av Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra, Hilary Marland m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2578 kr
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Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, …
Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960
Av Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris
Inbunden, 1999
2578 kr
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Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, …
Reassessing Foucault
Power, Medicine and the Body
Häftad, 1998
646 kr
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Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.Focusing on the social history of medicine, …
Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
Av Bill Forsythe, Joseph Melling
Inbunden, 1999
2578 kr
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This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural …
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current …
Sex, Sin and Suffering
Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870
Av Roger Davidson, Lesley A. Hall
Inbunden, 2001
2504 kr
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This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how …
Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
New Perspectives
Av David Killingray, Howard Phillips
Inbunden, 2003
2578 kr
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The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find …
Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century
International and Comparative Perspectives
Av Jim Phillips, David F. Smith
Inbunden, 2000
2504 kr
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This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. A range of important case studies, from pasteurisation in Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those interested in science policy and the role of …
Innovations in Health and Medicine
Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2002
3262 kr
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This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology.The collection features issues such as control and …
Contagion
Av Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker
Inbunden, 2001
2818 kr
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In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and …
Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000
Av Steve Sturdy
Inbunden, 2002
3262 kr
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Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public …
Medicine and Colonial Identity
Av Bridie Andrews, Mary P. Sutphen
Inbunden, 2003
1562 kr
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Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple …
Politics of Madness
The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914
Av Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe
Inbunden, 2006
2578 kr
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The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national …
Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media
Producing Health in the Twentieth Century
Av Virginia Berridge, Kelly Loughlin
Inbunden, 2005
3461 kr
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This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years.Taking a broad …
New Directions in Nursing History
International Perspectives
Av Susan McGann, Barbara Mortimer
Inbunden, 2004
2433 kr
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This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address:the issues of professionalism within …
Risks of Medical Innovation
Risk Perception and Assessment in Historical Context
Av Thomas Schlich, Ulrich Tröhler
Inbunden, 2005
2578 kr
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The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine.Presenting a new way of thinking about these issues, this volume considers risk and medical innovation from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases of medical …
Women and Smoking since 1890
Inbunden, 2007
2578 kr
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The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggests that the history of smoking among women is not just about the assimilation of women into a male practice, but about the changing, and varied, …
Financing Medicine
The British Experience Since 1750
Av Martin Gorsky, Sally Sheard
Inbunden, 2006
2578 kr
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Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major issues:Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did?What were the ramifications of …
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Bodies, Images and Experiences
Av David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg
Inbunden, 2006
2578 kr
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Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways …
Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850
Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom
Av Pamela Dale, Joseph Melling
Inbunden, 2006
2578 kr
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Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor …
Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
A Dark Epilogue
Inbunden, 2006
2586 kr
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time.The book provides the most …
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity
Inbunden, 2007
3156 kr
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This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal …
