Last Resort

Jack D Pressman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when tens of thousands of Americans were operated on for mental illness... Lees meer

Joan Baptista Van Helmont

Walter Pagel

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Only comparatively recently have historians begun to recognize the importance and influence of Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644) in the history of... Lees meer

Making Sense of Illness

Robert A Aronowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in ... Lees meer

Traumatic Pasts

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Trauma--the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse--has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay cri... Lees meer

The Physical and the Moral

Elizabeth A Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book explores the tradition of the "science of man" in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the "p... Lees meer

Ordered to Care

Susan M Reverby

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untraine... Lees meer

Mission and Method

Ann Elizabeth Fowle La Berge

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration... Lees meer

Legal Medicine in History

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This collection of essays presents fresh interpretations of the growth of medico-legal ideas, institutions and practices in Britain, Europe and Americ... Lees meer

Public Health in Papua New Guinea

Donald Denoon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule... Lees meer

International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918 1939

Paul (University of Oxford) Weindling

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This is a collection of original studies on the international health and welfare organizations between the First and the Second World Wars. The divers... Lees meer

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy

Sandra Cavallo

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This is the first thorough study of charity and of medical and poor relief in post-Renaissance Italy. It departs from current interpretations by putti... Lees meer

Charitable Knowledge

Susan C Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections among medical teaching, medical knowledge and medical authority in eighteenth-century London. The m... Lees meer

Mystical Bedlam

Michael MacDonald

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard... Lees meer

Making Sense of Illness

Robert A Aronowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in ... Lees meer

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy

Sandra Cavallo

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This is the first thorough study of charity and of medical and poor relief in post-Renaissance Italy. It departs from current interpretations by putti... Lees meer

The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London

Doreen Evenden

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Midwives, as a group, have been dismis... Lees meer

Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935

John M Eyler

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed a significant improvement in the health of the British people and an unprecedented expansion of state... Lees meer

Patients and Practitioners

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor... Lees meer

Bilharzia

John Farley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• The advent of tropical medicine was a direct consequence of European and American imperialism, when military personnel, colonial administrators, busin... Lees meer

Science and Empire

Paul F Cranefield

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• East Coast fever is a lethal disease of cattle caused by a parasite. It affects and distorts lymph cells and causes them to behave like cells in leuke... Lees meer

The Physician-Legislators of France

Jack D Ellis

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Between the birth of the Third Republic and the outbreak of World War I, French medical doctors gained a far-reaching influence over the political lif... Lees meer

Traumatic Pasts

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Trauma--the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse--has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay cri... Lees meer

Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935

John M Eyler

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• The half century between 1885 and 1935 witnessed a significant improvement in the health of the British people and an unprecedented expansion of state... Lees meer

The Renaissance Notion of Woman

Ian MacLean

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• This study of the world of scholarship and scholarly texts in the Renaissance, the so-called respublica literaria, affords insights into the intellect... Lees meer