History of medicine (117)

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medici...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of internati...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging 'modern medicin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gende...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Ane Ohrvik assess...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical pe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Honderd jaar geleden gold tuberculose nog als volksziekte nummer één, tegenwoordig komt de ziekte in Nederland nauwelijks meer voor. Omgekeerd sprak niemand in 1900 over hypertensie of een hartinfarct. Ziekten komen en gaan. Net als de reactie op...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the indi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitud...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then. Recently, the need t...