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Plague And The Poor In Renaissance Florence

de Ann G. Carmichael

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics.
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Unnatural History - Breast Cancer And American Society

de Robert A. (University Of Pennsylvania) Aronowitz

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened.
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The Physical And The Moral - Anthropology, Physiology, And Philosophical Medicine In France, 1750â€“1850

de Elizabeth A. (Oklahoma State University) Williams

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 This book explores the tradition of the 'science of man' in French medicine of the era 1750â€"1850. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected because it lay outside the mainstream themes of modern medicine.
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Victorian Lunacy - Richard M. Bucke And The Practice Of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

de Samuel Edward Dole Shortt

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 This 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.
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Traumatic Pasts - History, Psychiatry, And Trauma In The Modern Age, 1870â€“1930

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 Trauma - the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse - has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists and lay critics (and activists). The essays in this 2001 book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture between 1870â€"1930 in Europe and America.
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Making Sense Of Illness - Science, Society And Disease

de Robert A. (University Of Medicine And Dentistry, New Jersey) Aronowitz

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 In this 1998 book Robert Aronowitz offers historical essays about how diseases change their meaning. By juxtaposing the history of different diseases, the author shows how values and interests have determined research programs, public health activities, clinical decisions, and the patient's experience of illness.
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From Medical Chemistry To Biochemistry - The Making Of A Biomedical Discipline

de Robert E. Kohler

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 This penetrating case study of institution building and entrepreneurship in science shows how a minor medical speciality evolved into a large and powerful academic discipline. Drawing extensively on little-used archival sources, the author analyses in detail how biomedical science became a central part of medical training and practice.
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Public Health And Social Justice In The Age Of Chadwick - Britain, 1800â€“1854

de Christopher (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Hamlin

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 By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government over urban filth but as a politically savvy choice to undermine the potential of a public medicine to provide a basis for radical criticism of laissez faire capitalism, this book opens the possibility for understanding health as a matter of justice.
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Vital Accounts - Quantifying Health And Population In Eighteenth-Century England And France

de Andrea A. (University Of Rhode Island) Rusnock

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arithmetic in England and France during the long eighteenth century, before the emergence of statistics and regular government censuses.
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Mystical Bedlam - Madness, Anxiety And Healing In Seventeenth-Century England

de Michael (University Of Wisconsin, Madison) Macdonald

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 Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634.
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Medicine And Society In Wakefield And Huddersfield 1780â€“1870

de Hilary Marland

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 This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history which says something important about the country as a whole.
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Unnatural History - Breast Cancer And American Society

de Robert A. (University Of Pennsylvania) Aronowitz

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened.
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Spreading Germs - Disease Theories And Medical Practice In Britain, 1865â€“1900

de Michael (Sheffield Hallam University) Worboys

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 Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine.
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The Meanings Of Sex Difference In The Middle Ages - Medicine, Science, And Culture

de Joan (Kenyon College, Ohio) Cadden

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 This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader culture's assumptions about gender. Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophical theories and medical notions about reproduction and sexual impulses and experiences intersected with ideas about the roles of men and women.
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Ordered To Care - The Dilemma Of American Nursing, 1850â€“1945

de Susan M. Reverby

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 Ordered to Care provides an overall history of American nursing's development and examines the context of women's history and the social history of health care. She discusses why nursing will have to move beyond its obligation to care, and what the implications of this change would be for all of us.
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Sir Arthur Newsholme And State Medicine, 1885â€“1935

de John M. (University Of Minnesota) Eyler

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 This book examines the transformation of the British public health system, during the years 1885â€"1935. Particular attention is drawn to Newsholme's role in constructing a highly successful local health programme, his tenure at the Local Government Board, his post-retirement studies of international health systems, and his statistical and epidemiological studies.
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Public Health In Papua New Guinea - Medical Possibility And Social Constraint, 1884â€“1984

de Donald Denoon

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 This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas.
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Patients, Power And The Poor In Eighteenth-Century Bristol

de Mary E. Fissell

74,35€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.
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Public Health In British India - Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859â€“1914

de Mark (Wellcome Institute For The History Of Medicine, London) Harrison

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first major study of public health in British India that covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India; the fate of public health under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Abortion, Doctors And The Law - Some Aspects Of The Legal Regulation Of Abortion In England From 1803 To 1982

de John, Dcl Keown

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 Ranging from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1980s, this book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England. Dr Keown considers the performance of abortion by doctors, and the influence the medical profession had on the restriction of the law in the nineteenth century and on its relaxation in the twentieth.
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Quality And Quantity - The Quest For Biological Regeneration In Twentieth-Century France

de William H. (Purdue University, Indiana) Schneider

77,06€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book, first published in 2001, explains how eugenicists tried to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. It is the first attempt to set forth the major components of French eugenics both for comparison with other countries and to show the interaction of the various movements that comprised it.
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Patients And Practitioners - Lay Perceptions Of Medicine In Pre-Industrial Society

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 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 ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves.
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Health, Race And German Politics Between National Unification And Nazism, 1870â€“1945

de Paul (University Of Oxford) Weindling

64,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around vÃ¶lkisch racial ideologies, overlooking the effects of racial ideas on biology and health. Based on a wealth of hitherto neglected archival sources, this book analyses the origins, social composition and impact of eugenics in the context of the social and political tension of an industrialising empire.
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The Progress Of Experiment - Science And Therapeutic Reform In The United States, 1900â€“1990

de Harry M. (The Johns Hopkins University) Marks

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book explores the origins of our contemporary system of drug regulation and of the modern clinical trial. Harry Marks looks at the science and politics of drug evaluation and explores the influence of academic ideals on governmental drug regulation.
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