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Metamorphosis of Autism
A History of Child Development in Britain
Av Bonnie Evans
Inbunden, 2017
456 kr
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What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's fame and controversy. The metamorphosis of autism is the first book to explain our current fascination with autism by …
Politics of Vaccination
A Global History
Av Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1308 kr
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Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in …
Leprosy and Colonialism
Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750–1950
Inbunden, 2017
1236 kr
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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of …
Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine
Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain
Inbunden, 2019
442 kr
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Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing …
Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine
Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain
E-bok, 2019
57 kr
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Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing …
Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine
Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain
E-bok, 2019
53 kr
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Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing …
Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture
Bodies and Environments in Italy and England
Av Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey
Inbunden, 2017
1116 kr
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Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily …
Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918–48
Inbunden, 2017
456 kr
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This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. …
Mediterranean Quarantines, 1750–1914
Space, Identity and Power
Av John Chircop, Francisco Javier Martinez
Inbunden, 2018
1308 kr
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Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of …
Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation, 1780–1890
Inbunden, 2017
1236 kr
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This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the …
Healthcare in Northern Ireland, 1921–73
Politics, policies and management
Inbunden, 2026
1263 kr
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This book examines the policies, politics, and management of health care in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1973, tracing its evolution from a fragmented, locally driven system to the most centrally managed model within the National Health Service. At its core is an analysis of the interest groups …
Feeling the Strain
A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century Britain
Av Jill Kirby
Inbunden, 2019
1263 kr
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Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not …
Feeling the Strain
A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century Britain
Av Jill Kirby
E-bok, 2019
309 kr
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Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not …
Feeling the Strain
A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century Britain
Av Jill Kirby
E-bok, 2019
302 kr
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Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not …
Vaccinating Britain
Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War
Inbunden, 2019
456 kr
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Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five key vaccines – diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and …
Vaccinating Britain
Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War
E-bok, 2019
57 kr
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Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five key vaccines – diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and …
Vaccinating Britain
Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War
E-bok, 2019
57 kr
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Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five key vaccines – diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and …
Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages
From England to the Mediterranean
Av Elma Brenner, François-Olivier Touati
Inbunden, 2021
1337 kr
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For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe. The chapters, including contributions by leading voices such as Luke Demaitre, Carole Rawcliffe and Charlotte Roberts, challenge the view that people with …
Sickness, Medical Welfare and the English Poor, 1750-1834
Av Steven King
Inbunden, 2018
1227 kr
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At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the poor themselves were able to negotiate this medical welfare rather than simply being subject to it; and that being doctored and …
Balancing the Self
Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century
Av Mark Jackson, Martin D. Moore
Inbunden, 2020
443 kr
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Many health, environmental, and social challenges across the globe – from diabetes to climate change – are regularly discussed in terms of imbalances in biological, ecological, and social systems. Yet, as contributions to this collection demonstrate, while the pressures of modernity have long been …
Madness on Trial
A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy
Av James Moran
Inbunden, 2019
1955 kr
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This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred …
Madness on Trial
A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy
Av James Moran
E-bok, 2019
368 kr
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This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred …
Madness on Trial
A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy
Av James Moran
E-bok, 2019
360 kr
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This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred …
Medical Societies and Scientific Culture in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
Inbunden, 2018
1263 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as scientific institutions. It analyses how physicians gathered to share, discuss, evaluate, publish and even celebrate their studies, uncovering the codes of conduct that underpinned these activities. The book …
Progress and Pathology
Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Av Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
772 kr
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This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical …
Accounting for Health
Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–2000
Av Axel C. Hüntelmann, Oliver Falk
Inbunden, 2021
1227 kr
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Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare – for …
Accounting for Health
Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–2000
Av Axel C. Hüntelmann, Oliver Falk
E-bok, 2021
1249 kr
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Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare – for …
Accounting for Health
Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500–2000
Av Axel C. Hüntelmann, Oliver Falk
E-bok, 2021
1212 kr
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Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare – for …
Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture
Av Emily Cock
Inbunden, 2019
1236 kr
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Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi’s rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical …
Rhinoplasty and the Nose in Early Modern British Medicine and Culture
Av Emily Cock
E-bok, 2019
368 kr
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Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi’s rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical …
