Télécharger le livre :  A History of British Eugenics since 1865

This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galton Laboratory attached to the University of London; and the Eugenics Society. It charts internal and ideological changes...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-09
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970

Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-22
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times

This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-29
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abortion and contraception within the historiography of the fertility...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-05-15
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914

This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-20
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-11
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War

This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while also interrogating the effect of global war on the development of Ireland’s domestic medical infrastructure, especially...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-26
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-12-30
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-29
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain

This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-18
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion

This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-13
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England

In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era. Patent medicines constituted a national...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-04
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948

This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-24
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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Télécharger le livre :  Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-04
Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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