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Great Minds In Despair - The Forced Migration Of German-Speaking Neuroscientists To North America, 1933 To 1989

by Frank W. Stahnisch

~~82,15€~~ 73,94€ 10% OFF

 Great Minds in Despair traces how the political climate of Nazism and forced migration of swathes of Jewish and oppositional scientists, physicians, and health care researchers from German-speaking countries influenced the development of neuroscience in North America during and after World War II.
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Echoes Of Care - Deafness In Modern Britain

by Jaipreet Virdi

~~41,08€~~ 36,97€ 10% OFF

 Echoes of Care chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf peopleâ€™s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
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Accidental History Of Canada

~~39,74€~~ 35,77€ 10% OFF

 An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents have significant social, cultural and policy meaning, and reveal aspects of precarity and inequity.
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Early Modern Naval Health Care In England, 1650-1750

by Matthew Neufeld

~~35,76€~~ 32,18€ 10% OFF

 *Early Modern Naval Health Care in England *follows the transformation of organized health care for Royal Navy seamen from 1650 to 1750. Matthew Neufeld finds that these changes relied on the relationship between naval officials and the ordinary people of coastal areas, especially the women who typically oversaw care spaces and engaged in care work.
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Reimagining Illness - Women Writers And Medicine In Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Heather Meek

72,88€ + 10% CARD

 Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by womenâ€™s accounts of illness.
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Strange Trips - Science, Culture, And The Regulation Of Drugs

by Lucas Richert

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 Examining the boundaries between recreational and medicinal drugs in the eyes of the public and the law.
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Psychedelic Prophets - The Letters Of Aldous Huxley And Humphry Osmond

71,55€ + 10% CARD

 Letters between the men who coined the term "psychedelic" and opened doors to a different way of thinking about human consciousness.
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Grenfell Medical Mission And American Support In Newfoundland And Labrador, 1890s-1940s

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 How American personnel, matÃ©riel, and money sustained the International Grenfell Association's medical mission in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Broken - Institutions, Families, And The Construction Of Intellectual Disability

by Madeline C. Burghardt

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 After 133 years of operation, the 2009 closure of Ontario's government-run institutions for people with intellectual disabilities has allowed accounts of those affected to emerge. Madeline Burghardt draws from narratives of institutional survivors, their siblings, and their parents to examine the far-reaching consequences of institutionalization due to intellectual difference. Beginning with a thorough history of the rise of institutions as a system to manage difference, Broken provides an overview of the development of institutions in Ontario and examines the socio-political conditions leading to families' decisions to institutionalize their children. Through this exploration, other themes emerge, including the historical and arbitrary construction of intellectual disability and the resulting segregation of those considered a threat to the well-being of the family and society; the overlap between institutionalization and the workings of capitalism; and contemporaneous practices of segregation in Canadian history, such as Indian residential schools. Drawing from people's direct, lived experiences, the second half of the book gathers poignant accounts of institutionalization's cascading effects on family relationships and understandings of disability, ranging from stories of personal loss and confusion to family breakage. Adding to a growing body of work addressing Canada's treatment of historically marginalized peoples, Broken exposes the consequences of policy based on socio-political constructions of disability and difference, and of the fundamentally unjust premise of institutionalization.
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Carving A Niche - The Medical Profession In Mexico, 1800-1870

by Luz Maria Hernandez Saenz

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.
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Invisible Injured - Psychological Trauma In The Canadian Military From The First World War To Afghanistan

by Adam Montgomery

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 The Canadian militaryâ€™s battle with soldiersâ€™ psychological trauma.
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Mobilizing Mercy - A History Of The Canadian Red Cross

by Sarah Glassford

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 An engaging history that follows Canadaâ€™s leading humanitarian organization through decades of war, peace, and social change.
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Boundaries Of Medicare - Public Health Care Beyond The Canada Health Act

by Gregory P. Marchildon e Katherine Anne Fierlbeck

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Katherine Fierlbeck and Gregory Marchildon examine public health services and coverage in Canada that predate or have developed in parallel to the Canada Health Act. Explaining their logic, operation, and internal political tensions, The Boundaries of Medicare sheds light on the challenges and opportunities facing Medicare in Canada today.
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Patterns Of Plague - Changing Ideas About Plague In England And France, 1348-1750

by Lori Jones

172,25€ + 10% CARD

 Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.
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Smile Gap - A History Of Oral Health And Social Inequality

by Catherine Carstairs

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 The Smile Gap, the first history of oral health in Canada, examines the enormous improvements to oral health and beauty over the past century. Catherine Carstairs reveals how dentistry not only affects our physical health but also impacts our self-image and the ways in which we relate to one another.
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Transforming Medical Education - Historical Case Studies Of Teaching, Learning, And Belonging In Medicine

61,61€ + 10% CARD

 Transforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that critically foreground processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts. As a collection, this book makes a powerful argument about the contextual diversity of instruction and identity formation in medicine.
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In The Public Good - Eugenics And Law In Ontario

by C. Elizabeth Koester

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 In the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used both to promote and deflect eugenic thinking.
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Ethnopsychiatry

by Henri F. Ellenberger

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a series of articles by Henri Ellenberger, presented here for the first time in English.
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Challenging Choices - Canada''S Population Control In The 1970s

by Erika Dyck e Maureen Lux

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 An unflinching look at how eugenics and population control continued to inform family planning in 1970s Canada.
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Ambulance On Safari - The Anc And The Making Of A Health Department In Exile

by Melissa Diane Armstrong

36,44€ + 10% CARD

 During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required medical attention during their period of exile. An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage. Banned in South Africa from 1960 to 1990, the ANC continued its operations underground in anticipation of eventual political victory, styling itself as a "government in waiting." In 1977 it created its own Health Department, which it presented as an alternative medical service and the nucleus of a post-apartheid healthcare system. By publicizing its own democratic policies as well as the racist practices of healthcare delivery in South Africa, the Health Department won international attention for its cause and provoked widespread condemnation of the apartheid state. While the global campaign was unfolding successfully, the department's provision of healthcare on the ground was intermittent as patients confronted a fledgling medical system experiencing various growing pains. Still, the legacy of the department would be long, as many medical professionals who joined the post-apartheid Department of Health in South Africa had been trained in exile during the liberation struggle. With careful attention to both the international publicity campaign and on-the-ground medical efforts, An Ambulance on Safari reveals the intricate and significant political role of the ANC's Health Department and its influence on the anti-apartheid movement.
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Telling The Flesh - Life Writing, Citizenship, And The Body In The Letters To Samuel Auguste Tissot

by Sonja Boon

38,41€ + 10% CARD

 An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies.
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Expelling The Plague - The Health Office And The Implementation Of Quarantine In Dubrovnik, 1377-1533

by Vesna Blazina e Zlata Blazina Tomic

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 A ground-breaking study about plague control measures in medieval and early modern Croatia.
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Bodily Subjects - Essays On Gender And Health, 1800-2000

by Barbara Brookes, Tracy Penny Light e Wendy Mitchinson

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Historical understandings of gender and health that raise important questions about how health care works today.
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Black Doctors Of Colonial Lima - Science, Race, And Writing In Colonial And Early Republican Peru

by Jose R. Jouve Martin

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 The untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru.
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