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  • - New and Regional Perspectives
     
    1.331,95 kr.

    This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertise and which (or whose) histories are remembered. -- .

  • - Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
     
    503,95 kr.

    This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .

  • - Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance
     
    1.310,95 kr.

    What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the "neo-liberal turn" in development practices. -- .

  • - The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control
     
    1.434,95 kr.

    This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts. -- .

  • - From England to the Mediterranean
     
    1.441,95 kr.

    This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives. -- .

  • - A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century Britain
    af Jill Kirby
    411,95 - 973,95 kr.

    By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .

  • - New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
     
    1.340,95 kr.

    Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- .

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    1.338,95 kr.

    This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery. -- .

  • - Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain
     
    1.337,95 kr.

    The National Health Service determines how Briton's receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation. -- .

  • - Practitioners, Collectors and Contexts
     
    1.430,95 kr.

    This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters address a variety of subjects and situate them in appropriate contexts. The main focus is on medical practitioners and their place in Irish society. The book makes a major contribution to scholarship on early modern medicine. -- .

  • - The Surgical Stereotype, Past and Present
    af Agnes Arnold-Forster
    283,95 kr.

    Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work. -- .

  • - A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy
    af James Moran
    490,95 - 1.330,95 kr.

    This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .

  • af Heidi Hausse
    705,95 kr.

    This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable.

  • af Gemma Almond-Brown
    1.333,95 kr.

    This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

  • af Fay Bound Alberti
    404,95 kr.

    This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts.

  • af Lara Bergers
    410,95 kr.

    This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.

  • af Rachel E. Bennett
    405,95 kr.

    The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind.

  • - Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century
     
    324,95 kr.

    Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers. -- .

  • - A History of Child Development in Britain
    af Bonnie Evans
    513,95 kr.

    This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political, social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of autism possible. -- .

  • - Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
    af Stephen (Postdoctoral research fellow) Snelders
    1.331,95 kr.

    Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. -- .

  • - Bodies and Environments in Italy and England
     
    1.028,95 kr.

    Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries. -- .

  • - South Asian Doctors and the Reinvention of British General Practice (1940s-1980s)
    af Julian Simpson
    335,95 - 1.336,95 kr.

    Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. -- .

  • af Joris Vandendriessche
    971,95 kr.

    This book analyses how nineteenth-century doctors gathered in medical societies to discuss, evaluate, publish and celebrate their studies. It reveals how the codes of conduct that regulated scientific practice corresponded to the values of social engagement, polite debate and a free press of the urban bourgeoisie. -- .

  • - Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain
    af Martin D. Moore
    297,95 kr.

    Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine. -- .

  • af Emily Cock
    494,95 - 1.333,95 kr.

    This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

  • - Perspectives on Audiences and Impact
     
    1.328,95 kr.

    Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities. -- .

  • af Steven King
    973,95 kr.

    This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare. -- .

  • - Calculation, Paperwork, and Medicine, 1500-2000
     
    1.341,95 kr.

    Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world. -- .

  • - Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70
    af Caroline Rusterholz
    307,95 kr.

    Women''s medicine highlights British female doctors'' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. Illuminating women doctors'' agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders.

  • - A Global History
     
    1.436,95 kr.

    Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

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