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Healthcare In Northern Ireland, 1921-73 - Politics, Policies And Management

by Donnacha Sean Lucey

~~121,97€~~ 109,77€ 10% OFF

 This book provides insights into the politics, policies and management of healthcare in Northern Ireland from Irish partition in 1921 to the reorganisation of the services in 1973. It covers the interwar era, reforms of the 1940s, and creation and operation of the National Health Service, especially the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority. -- .
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Â€˜Everyday Healthâ€™, Embodiment, And Selfhood Since 1950

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Â€˜Everyday Healthâ€™, Embodiment, And Selfhood Since 1950

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 The volume explores the shaping of â€˜everyday healthâ€™ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing. -- .
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Brutal Treatments - Medicine And Colonial Violence At The End Of Empire

by Russell T. Moul

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 This book explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state. -- .
Implementing A Global Health Programme - Smallpox And Nepal

by Susan Heydon

~~121,97€~~ 109,77€ 10% OFF

 This book explores the topical issue of implementing a global vaccination programme. Focusing on smallpox, it explores why despite overwhelming challenges it succeeded in Nepal. Placing the country and peopleâ€™s perspectives at the centre, it offers an alternative to the top-down and centre-led standard narrative of the global smallpox programme. -- .
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Technology, Health, And The Patient Consumer In The Twentieth Century

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 This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patientsâ€™ roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology has had a lasting effect on ways of being a patient. -- .
Feeling Blue - Colour And The Modern British Hospital

by Victoria Bates

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 This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain. -- .
Unhappy Mothers - Women, Motherhood, And Social Change In Postwar Britain

by Sarah Crook

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 How did the experiences and emotions of unhappy mothers come to light in postwar Britain? This history looks at the role of five communities in drawing attention to the struggles of early mothering, unpicking the professional, political and social motivations that drove efforts to break silences around this critical subject. -- .
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Patient Voices In Britain, 18401948

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 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. -- .
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Everyday Health, Embodiment, And Selfhood Since 1950

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 What is the history of everyday health in the postwar world, and where might we find it? This volume moves away from top-down histories of health and medicine that focus on states, medical professionals, and other experts. Instead, it centres the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present. Chapters explore how gender, class, race, sexuality, disability, and age mediated experiences of health and wellbeing in historical context. The volume foregrounds methodologies for writing bottom-up histories of health, subjectivity, and embodiment, offering insights applicable to scholars of times and places beyond those represented in the case studies presented here. Drawing together cutting-edge scholarship, the volume establishes and critically interrogates everyday health as a crucial concept that will shape future histories of health and medicine.
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Brutal Treatments - Medicine And Colonial Violence At The End Of Empire

by Russell T. Moul

~~121,67€~~ 109,50€ 10% OFF

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 This book explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state. -- .
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Implementing A Global Health Programme - Smallpox And Nepal

by Susan Heydon

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% OFF

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 This book explores the topical issue of implementing a global vaccination programme. Focusing on smallpox, it explores why despite overwhelming challenges it succeeded in Nepal. Placing the country and peopleâ€™s perspectives at the centre, it offers an alternative to the top-down and centre-led standard narrative of the global smallpox programme. -- .
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On Trial - Testing New Drugs In Psychiatry, 1940-1980

by Magaly Tornay, Marietta Meier e Mario Konig

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 The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn. On Trial revolves around one of its pioneers, psychiatrist Roland Kuhn, who practiced in Münsterlingen, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. Kuhn became famous for the ‘discovery’ of the first antidepressant, Tofranil, and more recently notorious for his numerous trials on often unsuspecting patients. Largely based on the extensive and previously inaccessible sources of Kuhn’s private archive, the book delves into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. It examines how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted in the trials. Conducted from the 1940s to 1980s, the Münsterlingen drug trials are historicised and situated in the period’s evolving landscape of experimentation.
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Â€˜Everyday Healthâ€™, Embodiment, And Selfhood Since 1950

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 The volume explores the shaping of â€˜everyday healthâ€™ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing. -- .
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On Trial - Testing New Drugs In Psychiatry, 1940â€“1980

by Magaly Tornay, Marietta Meier e Mario Konig

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 The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials. -- .
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Situating Religion And Medicine In Asia - Methodological Insights And Innovations

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 This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book’s central question is to what extent ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?
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Doing Psychiatry In Postwar Europe - Practices, Routines And Experiences

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 Looking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the 20th century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II. Through richly documented case studies across Europe, this book sheds light on marginal experiences and everyday practices. -- .
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Spectacles And The Victorians - Measuring, Defining And Shaping Visual Capacity

by Gemma Almond-Brown

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 This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists’ attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.
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Motherhood Confined - Maternal Health In English Prisons, 1853-1955

by Rachel E. Bennett

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 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. -- .
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The Malleable Body - Surgeons, Artisans, And Amputees In Early Modern Germany

by Heidi Hausse

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 WINNER of the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book Award This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons’ ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body — that it was malleable.
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Situating Religion And Medicine In Asia - Methodological Insights And Innovations

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 This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains. -- .
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Publics And Their Health - Historical Problems And Perspectives

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 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to problem publics who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.
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Forensic Cultures In Modern Europe

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 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. -- .
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Germs And Governance - The Past, Present And Future Of Hospital Infection, Prevention And Control

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 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. -- .
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Spectacles And The Victorians - Measuring, Defining And Shaping Visual Capacity

by Gemma Almond-Brown

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 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. -- .
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