History of medicine books

Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists...  Read More >>

Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning...  Read More >>

Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical...  Read More >>

Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality...  Read More >>

This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro ’De Animalibus’ Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest...  Read More >>

This collection considers the history of prosthesis and its implications for contemporary critical responses. It...  Read More >>

This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had...  Read More >>

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing...  Read More >>

This book investigates German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573 in order to explore the...  Read More >>

This is a full-text English translation of the TCM classic on pediatrics written by QIAN Yi (1032-1113 CE). It covers...  Read More >>

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This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural...  Read More >>

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This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship, discussing twins appearing in anatomy tracts,...  Read More >>

This book explores the work of the British anti-psychiatric group through its social and theoretical networks. It...  Read More >>

This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays,...  Read More >>

This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health...  Read More >>

The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. In this...  Read More >>

The result is a probing history of medicine that details the social world of New York physicians, their ideas about...  Read More >>

In the tradition of Atul Gawandes Complications, an exceptional book, part memoir, part history, by an elite surgeon...  Read More >>

In bringing together for the first time four groups of specialists - doctors, coroners, lawyers and police officers...  Read More >>

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"In der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts fuhrte der Schwarze Tod in Westfalen und dem Rheinland zu einem Massensterben...  Read More >>

This compelling examination explains the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate.  Read More >>