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Face/On
Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever—or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face–and the changing stakes for the face—in both contemporary society and the sciences.
The first...
Imperial Medicine
Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British...
The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half.
Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a...
The Politics of Addiction
Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media feeding into the process.
Conserving health in early modern culture
Bodies and environments in Italy and England
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily...
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani Industry, 19802000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market explores the paradox at the heart of the ayurvedic and unani medicine manufacturing industry—to present itself as modern and traditional, common and professional at the same time. On the one hand, the natural, wholesome and authentic nature of these medicines...
Fear 2 Faith
Our Journey Through Mesothelioma
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
I never expected to enter the frightening world of cancer. Lannie had always been wholly healthy. He rarely even had a cold. He was a lifelong nonsmoker with no known cancer risks. Our two children were launched and doing well. Lannie had retired; I continued to work full-time teaching nursing. God...
From Body to Community
Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has come down to us as...
Toxic Exposures
Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects were widespread and...
Open Wound
The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
A shotgun misfires inside the American Fur Company store in Northern Michigan, and Alexis St. Martin's death appears imminent. It's 1822, and, as the leaders of Mackinac Island examine St. Martin's shot-riddled torso, they decide not to incur a single expense on behalf of the indentured fur trapper....
From Melancholia to Prozac
A history of depression
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed?...
Harmony in Healing
The Theoretical Basis of Ancient and Medieval Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Medicine and astronomy are the oldest of all the sciences. They appear at first glance to be the original odd couple. Their union gave birth to a progeny that populated the Western world for more than two millennia. From an historical perspective, their marriage and mutual influence is undeniable....
by Howard W. Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment,...
China Gadabouts
New Frontiers of Humanitarian Nursing, 1941–51
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book will find an audience with practitioners as well as students and scholars of global nursing history, humanitarian history, the history of medicine, and the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese civil war.