History of medicine books

Acrossmost of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre ofpolio, but for fifty years during...  Read More >>

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Houses of Madness is an intriguing analysis of the history of mental asylums in nineteenth-century Bengal. It explores...  Read More >>

Explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi....  Read More >>

Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatán’s medical institutions, public health programs, healers,...  Read More >>

Explores the troubled intertwining of religion, medicine, empire, and race relations in the early nineteenth century....  Read More >>

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Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast'...  Read More >>

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Drawing on casebooks and other practice records and linking case studies with synthetic chapters, Medical Practices,...  Read More >>

Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast'...  Read More >>

A new title from Routledge, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research.  Read More >>

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Die englischsprachige Studie widmet sich Fragen der Genderforschung und der Medizingeschichte im kolonialen Nordafrika....  Read More >>

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Sie erschien 1799 unter dem Titel „Eduard Jenners Untersuchungen über die Ursachen und Wirkungen der Kuhpocken:...  Read More >>

Wolfgang U. Eckart kommentiert aus heutiger Sicht die beiden in die Medizingeschichte eingegangenen Arbeiten ""Cellular-Pathologie""...  Read More >>

Protecting public health is central to the success of a modern government. The essays in this collection focus on...  Read More >>

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Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity,...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity,...  Read More >>