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'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood
Häftad, 2024
664 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 …
Forty Days
Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 – c. 1900
Av John Booker
Inbunden, 2021
2577 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
655 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 …
Civic Medicine
Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe
Av J. Andrew Mendelsohn, Annemarie Kinzelbach m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities rivaled territorial states in local and …
The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections
Hands On, Hands Off
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections starts where most stories end: after death. It tells the story of thousands of body parts kept in bottles and boxes in nineteenth-century Leiden – a story featuring a struggling medical student, more than one disappointed anatomist, a monstrous …
Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941
Protecting the Collective
Häftad, 2021
724 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 …
From Clinic to Concentration Camp
Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme …
Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was taught at the best universities. Leading …
Gabrielle Falloppia, 1522/23-1562
The Life and Work of a Renaissance Anatomist
Inbunden, 2022
2018 kr
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Renaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made numerous other anatomical discoveries as well, was one of the most famous surgeons of his time, and is widely believed to have invented the condom.Drawing on Falloppia's …
Gabrielle Falloppia, 1522/23-1562
The Life and Work of a Renaissance Anatomist
Häftad, 2024
685 kr
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Renaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made numerous other anatomical discoveries as well, was one of the most famous surgeons of his time, and is widely believed to have invented the condom.Drawing on Falloppia's …
'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood
Inbunden, 2022
2656 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 …
The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this this …
The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany
Medicine and Botany
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly …
The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654
Inbunden, 2022
2577 kr
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This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, …
The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654
Häftad, 2024
691 kr
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This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, …
It All Depends on the Dose
Poisons and Medicines in European History
Av Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
731 kr
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This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can …
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia
Av Ole Grell, Andrew Cunningham
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy within the individual Lutheran principalities …
The Fate of Anatomical Collections
Av Rina Knoeff, Robert Zwijnenberg
Häftad, 2024
661 kr
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Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them. In many institutions these collections are well-preserved, but in others they are …
Medicine, Trade and Empire
Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context
Häftad, 2024
661 kr
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Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city …
Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution …
The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014
Medicines, International Standards and the State
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and remains an essential global reference in pharmaceutical research and development and …
Medicine, Madness and the Maternal Body in Sixteenth-Century Europe
The Emergence of Postpartum Pathophysiology
Av Laura Cronin
Inbunden, 2027
2527 kr
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This book traces the early modern medical engagement with what was often termed as ‘postpartum madness.’ It offers a new consideration of how mental disturbances were perceived and treated by university-trained physicians over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By focusing on …
Wounds in the Middle Ages
Av Anne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
944 kr
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Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle ages, paired chapters explore key themes …
The Anatomist Anatomis'd
An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe
Häftad, 2016
944 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 …
The Body Divided
Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History
Häftad, 2016
884 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 …
The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
Av Helen King
Häftad, 2016
944 kr
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By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in …
The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease
Case Histories
Häftad, 2016
944 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 …
A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier
Häftad, 2016
884 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 …
Bad Vibrations
The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease
Häftad, 2016
944 kr
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Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, …
Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2016
944 kr
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This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the ’ceremony of childbirth’, the popular ritual …
