Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History – serie
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Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950
Av C. Gradmann, J. Simon
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century. The case studies in this volume offer comparisons across Europe, from the diphtheria antitoxin in the late 1800s to the introduction of the …
Politics of Addiction
Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s
Av S. Mars
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media …
Women's Bodies and Medical Science
An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer
Av L. Bryder
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history …
Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing
From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying …
Tissue Culture in Science and Society
The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain
Av D. Wilson
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue.
Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Av V. Hess
Inbunden, 2012
1130 kr
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This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilized, and means of intervention chosen to …
Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs
Health and Society in Britain since the 1960s
Av A. Mold, V. Berridge
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments in the relationship between …
Rabies in Britain
Dogs, Disease and Culture, 1830-2000
Inbunden, 2007
569 kr
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Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, …
Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients
A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement
Av J. Anderson, F. Neary m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1243 kr
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The Total Hip Replacement was invented by British surgeons after World War Two. It became the basis of a multi-billion global industry in joint replacement. This pioneering study ranges from inventive surgeons to multi-national manufacturers and explores total hip replacement in the very different …
Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current …
Surgery and Society in Peace and War
Orthopaedics and the Organization of Modern Medicine, 1880-1948
Av R. Cooter
Inbunden, 1993
569 kr
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This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. Paying particular attention to developments in medical welfare for physically handicapped children, wounded soldiers and injured workers, this …
Invisible Industrialist
Manufacture and the Construction of Scientific Knowledge
Inbunden, 1998
1580 kr
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Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the …
Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine
Av R. Bivins
Inbunden, 2000
1130 kr
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Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative …
Surgery, Science and Industry
A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s
Av T. Schlich
Inbunden, 2002
1243 kr
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This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO's surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky …
Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways
Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Av C. Timmermann, E. Toon
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often …
Rabies in Britain
Dogs, Disease and Culture, 1830-2000
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, …
Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary
Av M. Turda
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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In 1900 Hungary was a regional power in Europe with imperial pretensions; by 1919 it was crippled by profound territorial, social and national transformations. This book chronicles the development of eugenic thinking in early twentieth-century Hungary, examining how eugenics was an integral part of …
Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World
Av C. Cox, H. Marland
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of …
Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain
Av J. Toms
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.
Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000
Mycoses and Modernity
Av A. Homei, M. Worboys
Inbunden, 2013
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the …
Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000
Mycoses and Modernity
Av A. Homei, M. Worboys
Häftad, 2013
232 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the …
Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing
From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000
Häftad, 2012
625 kr
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Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying …
Politics of Addiction
Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s
Av S. Mars
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media …
Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing
From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000
Häftad, 2012
558 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying …
Tissue Culture in Science and Society
The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain
Av D. Wilson
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue.
Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Av V. Hess
Häftad, 2013
1130 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilized, and means of intervention chosen to …
Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs
Health and Society in Britain since the 1960s
Av A. Mold, V. Berridge
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments in the relationship between …
Rabies in Britain
Dogs, Disease and Culture, 1830-2000
Av M. Worboys
Häftad, 2007
621 kr
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Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, …
Surgery, Science and Industry
A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s
Av T. Schlich, John V. Pickstone
Häftad, 2002
1243 kr
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This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO's surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky …
Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways
Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Av C. Timmermann, E. Toon
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often …
