History

In the mid-1850s, the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire set about looking for a site for a new asylum to house their 'pauper lunatics'. Two hundred acres of farmland at Stotfold on the Hertfordshire-Bedfordshire border were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of John Hope Franklin Publication Prize 1989.Book InformationISBN 9780375724480Author Joan Jacobs BrumbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957245990Author Terry BrevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Cambria BooksPublisher Cambria Publishing

This introduction to ancient medical systems asks how the experience of illness and the role of medicine were understood in the Greek and Roman worlds. Although topics such as the development of anatomical knowledge are covered, the book focuses on the...

A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness - Who is 'mad'? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it...

When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social strata have treated bathing as a communal activity integrating personal hygiene and public health with...

The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of...

A powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition. This expanded and updated edition of the classic 1993 title, traces a lineage that spans the centuries in a revisionist history that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616615Format PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City University of New...

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the founding of this unique Institution, and the individuals...

'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans - our willingness...

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topics-such as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynecological theories of women's...

This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar...

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them,...

Awarded the 'International Contribution to Chinese Medicine' accolade at the 2023 World Congress of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people...

Strategies for the preservation of health and for the prevention and treatment of illness and disease have been discerned in the surviving written records and material remains of most societies since earliest times. Compared to the prehistoric past the...

This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle...

This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375149Author P.J. CaseyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 170mm * 30mm

To understand who we are and where we are going,we first need to understand who we were and where we came from. The History of Occupational Therapy: The First Century by Drs. Lori T. Andersen and Kathlyn L. Reed follows a chronological timeline,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668001394Author Donald G McNeilFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and black suffering in an ostensibly progressive and...

This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated...

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called...

'Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first "scamdemic," . . . [Her] work is journalism at its best-solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch, and thereby helping right them.' -Mark Crispin...

During the nineteenth century, the provision of medical care underwent a radical transformation. In 1800, the body was still understood in terms of humours and fluids, and treatment was provided by a wide range of individuals, some of whom had little or...

Leading gender and science scholar Sarah S. Richardson charts the untold history of the idea that a woman's health and behavior during pregnancy can have long-term effects on her descendants' health and welfare. The idea that a woman may leave a...

A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. 'Fascinating and beautifully written' Guardian 'Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into...

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into...

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in...

A "brilliant and sobering" (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksAs seen on "60 Minutes" The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak This sweeping exploration...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr,...

It's time to examine the human history of viruses, vaccines, and antiviral drugs... Public response to the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that misinformation about viruses is widespread. Vaccine skepticism is rampant, and many people have been...

T'zu's The Washing Away of Wrongs (Hsi yuan chi lu), printed in 1247, is the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world. Written as a guide for magistrates in conducting inquests, the book is a major source on early Chinese knowledge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729863Author Donald R. KirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

The global outbreak of Covid-19 appears to be unprecedented in a world which has not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, while society had almost forgotten the enormous impact of highly infectious diseases throughout history. Pestilence, however,...

The English edition of Liu Lihong's work is a milestone for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated 'integration' of traditional Chinese wisdom...

"A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one."-Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.A suspenseful, authoritative account of how the battle against a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913179809Author Logan EwingFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint UK Book PublishingPublisher Consilience MediaWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A biography of tuberculosis, an ancient disease - but still a present danger. Tuberculosis has twisted through the millennia hand-in-hand with humanity, leaving its marks on our culture, our history and our DNA, from the birth of Homo sapiens right up...