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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, *Voices of the Women’s Health Movement *explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge...
by Peter Dally
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has been portrayed as a helpless invalid, the captive of a despotic, even incestuous, father, awaiting rescue by her knight errant: Robert Browning. However, Elizabeth was far from helpless. She was a determined woman who nearly always got her own way, through a combination...
Mental Disorder in Canada
An Epidemiological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading...
by Katherine Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
On the banks of Lake Chauncy sit the remains of the Westborough Insane Hospital, later known as Westborough State Hospital. Westborough is perhaps best known as the second homeopathic hospital for the insane in the United States and the first example of institutional reuse in the nation. The hospital's...
Curing the Colonizers
Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
“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 nineteenth century and the twentieth....
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia
Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking...
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease
The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the earth. This spellbinding...
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors'...
Soul Made Flesh
The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century...
by Fiona Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for bodies over two centuries.
Health and Humanity
A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Between 1935 and 1985, the nascent public health profession developed scientific evidence and practical know-how to prevent death on an unprecedented scale. Thanks to public health workers, life expectancy rose rapidly as generations grew up free from the scourges of smallpox, typhoid, and syphilis....
Who cared for the carers?
A history of the occupational health of nurses, 1880–1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1958
Cinematic Prophylaxis
Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
A timely contribution to the fields of film history, visual cultures, and globalization studies, Cinematic Prophylaxis provides essential historical information about how the representation of biological contagion has affected understandings of the origins and vectors of disease. Kirsten Ostherr tracks...
Medicine and Religion
A Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian...