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Fungal Disease In Britain And The United States 1850-2000 - Mycoses And Modernity

by A. Homei e M. Worboys

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century.
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Invisible Industrialist - Manufacture And The Construction Of Scientific Knowledge

by J. Gaudilliere

158,34€ + 10% CARD

 Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
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Making Space For Science - Territorial Themes In The Shaping Of Knowledge

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. Without these contexts, indeed, scientific practice as such is scarcely conceivable. Making Space for Science brings together contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology and cultural studies of science and technology since the Renaissance. The editors aim to provide a series of studies, drawn from the history of science and engineering, from sociology and sociology and science, from literature and science, and from architecture and design history, which examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.
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Surgery And Society In Peace And War - Orthopaedics And The Organization Of Modern Medicine, 1880-1948

by R. Cooter

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organization were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. This study demonstrates the importance of changing interactions between philanthropy, war, labour, capital and the state.
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Women'S Bodies And Medical Science - An Inquiry Into Cervical Cancer

by L. Bryder

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Women'S Bodies And Medical Science - An Inquiry Into Cervical Cancer

by L. Bryder

60,82€ + 10% CARD

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 An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Politics Of Addiction - Medical Conflict And Drug Dependence In England Since The 1960s

by S. Mars

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways - Historical And Sociological Perspectives

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often disappointed expectations.
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Surgeons, Manufacturers And Patients - A Transatlantic History Of Total Hip Replacement

by F. Neary, J. Anderson e J. Pickstone

131,84€ + 10% CARD

 The Total Hip Replacement was invented by British surgeons after World War Two. It became the basis of a multi-billion global industry in joint replacement. This pioneering study ranges from inventive surgeons to multi-national manufacturers and explores total hip replacement in the very different health economies of the UK and the US.
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Short History Of The Drug Receptor Concept

by A. Maehle, C. Prull e R. Halliwell

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current impact on drug discovery in the 21st century.
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Biology, Computing, And The History Of Molecular Sequencing - From Proteins To Dna, 1945-2000

by M. Garcia-Sancho

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around genomics.
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Tissue Culture In Science And Society - The Public Life Of A Biological Technique In Twentieth Century Britain

by D. Wilson

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue.
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Acupuncture, Expertise And Cross-Cultural Medicine

by R. Bivins

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. It reaches a provocative conclusion: alternative therapies' whole-body approach might be just what medicine really needs right now to help crack the tough, chronic conditions seemingly untouched by the revolutions of surgery, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines and molecular biology.
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Devices And Designs - Medical Technologies In Historical Perspective

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Written by the scholars in the history and sociology of medicine, this book focuses on the material cultures of health care. It analyzes how technology has become so central to medicine and how we are coping with the consequences.
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Evaluating And Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950

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 Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical''s efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century. The case studies in this volume offer comparisons across Europe, from the diphtheria antitoxin in the late 1800s to the introduction of the Salk polio vaccine in the 1950s.
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Voluntary Action And Illegal Drugs - Health And Society In Britain Since The 1960s

by A. Mold e V. Berridge

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 A unique exploration of theÂ changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments in the relationship between the state and civil society are examined.
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Hearts Exposed - Transplants And The Media In 1960s Britain

by A. Nathoo

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960's Britain, when the first wave of heart transplants were as much media as medical events and marked a decisive period in post-war history. Public trust in their doctors was significantly undermined, and medicine was held publicly to account as never before.
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Operations Without Pain: The Practice And Science Of Anaesthesia In Victorian Britain

by S. Snow

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.
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Voluntary Action And Illegal Drugs - Health And Society In Britain Since The 1960s

by A. Mold e V. Berridge

60,82€ + 10% CARD

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 A unique exploration of theÂ changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments in the relationship between the state and civil society are examined.
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Hearts Exposed - Transplants And The Media In 1960s Britain

by A. Nathoo

60,82€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960's Britain, when the first wave of heart transplants were as much media as medical events and marked a decisive period in post-war history. Public trust in their doctors was significantly undermined, and medicine was held publicly to account as never before.
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Devices And Designs - Medical Technologies In Historical Perspective

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze how technology has become so central to medicine over the last two centuries and how we are coping with the consequences.
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Mental Hygiene And Psychiatry In Modern Britain

by J. Toms

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 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 of important elements of this history.
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Surgery And Society In Peace And War - Orthopaedics And The Organization Of Modern Medicine, 1880-1948

by R. Cooter

60,82€ + 10% CARD

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 This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology.
ENGLISH

Operations Without Pain: The Practice And Science Of Anaesthesia In Victorian Britain

by S. Snow

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine.
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