History

Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another. It illustrates how recipes came to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639734696Author Anthony BourdainFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817358020Author Nicholas CulpeperFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

This book provides a historical narrative about Romania's modernization. It focuses on one group of the country's elites in the late nineteenth century, health professionals, and on the vision of a modern Romania that they constructed as they interacted...

One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists - or "fuckologists," to use his own memorable term - John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money...

In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arboll offers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kis ir-Assur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE. The book provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788491114550Author Sandeep JauharFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 23mm

In recent decades, developments in research technologies and therapeutic advances have generated immense public recognition for neuroscience. However, its origins as a field, often linked to partnerships and projects at various brain-focused research...

This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated. Analyses span the tenth to the...

This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain.

Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the...

At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960.The book begins...

Infectious disease has threatened life and social order throughout human history, inducing deep and pervasive fear. Fairfield Hospital began life in 1890 as a fever hospital, treating the colonists for typhoid, diphtheria, cholera and smallpox. As the...

"Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy." So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France's main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with "climatic" cures, thrived during the...

According to the popular press in the mid twentieth century, American women, in a misguided attempt to act like men in work and leisure, were drinking more. "Lady Lushes" were becoming a widespread social phenomenon. From the glamorous hard-drinking...

Situated between the history of pain, history of childhood and history of emotions, this innovative work explores cultural understandings of children's pain, from the 1870s to the end of the Second World War. Focusing on British medical discourse,...

Brutal treatments explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900587887Author Vivian NuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly-and legally-carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders committed...

How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? How might the history of medical imaging technologies help us understand the future of medical media? How has...

Arthur Benton has long been recognized as a distinguished researher,an influential educator, and a gifted writer. Early in his career, he was struck by the extreme divergence in the acceptance and usage of concepts and terms such as 'agnosia', 'amnesic...

Italian medical charlatans, wandering quacks who traded in remedies, accompanied real medicine like a dark shadow during its slow progress. Over the centuries, these cunning individuals infuriated orthodox physicians with their ability to capture...

Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lwow/Lemberg). This richly illustrated book is a tribute to its place in the once-vibrant Jewish community of the city and in the society at large during the period 1903-1939. Visionaries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667204734Author Dr. Henry Gray, FRSFormat HardbackPage Count 936Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 1329gDimensions(mm)...

A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease's emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment-and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency. Rickets, a childhood disorder that causes soft and misshapen bones,...

Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental...

From free healthcare for all in the twentieth century to no care at all for numerous UK citizens in the twenty-first, due to the foundering National Health Service (NHS)! The author was latterly employed in London. This is thus a brief history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307455420Author David DaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm...

Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs like sugar, chocolate, tobacco, tea, coffee, distilled...

Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is...

"What I am really anxious to hear is the final cause of your monstrous fiction. For your false invention seems to have no purpose. What reason can you give me for the circulation of the blood?"William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial...

Persisting Pandemics explores the history of syphilis and AIDS to provide insights into the limits of biomedicine and our experience with epidemics today. Novel therapies developed for syphilis and AIDS became renowned in the medical field and the...

Persisting Pandemics explores the history of syphilis and AIDS to provide insights into the limits of biomedicine and our experience with epidemics today. Novel therapies developed for syphilis and AIDS became renowned in the medical field and the...

Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and...

Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the degree and breadth of innovation that Porter envisaged...

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416538417Author Ira RutkowFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today's struggles to understand and remedy...

A new model of health emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939. Centered on the working body, organized around the concept of efficiency, and grounded in scientific understandings of human labor, scientists, politicians, and capitalists of the era...

Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, Healthcare in Latin America is the first volume to gather research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topic and region in fields such as history,...