History of medicine books

This book is a compelling narrative of the shifting optics of gaze, especially medical gaze, poised in our age of...  Read More >>

This story of land theft through the course of three diseases exposes how colonialism facilitates illness and profits...  Read More >>

In 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite...  Read More >>

A Letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and...  Read More >>

The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition...  Read More >>

Nouveau trait� de m�decine et de th�rapeutique. VIII, Rhumatismes: rhumatisme articulaire aigu, pseudo-rhumatismes,...  Read More >>

While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention...  Read More >>

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation...  Read More >>

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind...  Read More >>

While bioethics originated as a study of human relationships with the environment, the patient-practitioner relationship...  Read More >>

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Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in...  Read More >>

While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy...  Read More >>

While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy...  Read More >>

This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the...  Read More >>

This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the...  Read More >>

This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript...  Read More >>

Before Covid-19, before Flint, before AIDS, a deadly brain-swelling illness called Reye's syndrome was striking...  Read More >>

This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon’s (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine,...  Read More >>

White coats, Hippocratic oaths, medicine as a calling - are these beneficial practices or harmful rituals? White...  Read More >>

This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the...  Read More >>

Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved...  Read More >>

This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring global locations as disparate as the Caribbean,...  Read More >>