The Cambridge History of Medicine

Reducere. The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering ...

Drawing on the past 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary medicine and animal h...

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

Reducere. Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the most renowned and most controversial scientific achievements of ancient Chinese civilisation. Although W...

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government ...

This book provides a detailed history of the first hospital dedicated to neurology and neurosurgery in the world: the National Hospital, Queen Squa...

This text is an authoritative account of the rarest and most unusual psychiatric syndromes. Bridging medicine and the humanities, it includes the h...

This multidisciplinary book covers the clinical and human factors issues encountered when transferring critically ill children. Presented through c...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

The Broken Years tells the forgotten history of Russia's disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions. Using extensive archival ...

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the ...

Articulates, develops, and significantly revises the traditional interpretation of Aristotle's theory of generation, thereby improving our understa...

Reducere. From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply im...

Reducere. China has given birth to numerous scientific and technological inventions, and for many centuries led the world in such innovations. Indeed, some o...

Classical Athens boasted one of the most impressive flowerings of civilisation ever known, with original and influential achievements in literature...

This book advocates Frances Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathograhy, or the illness narrative. It will appeal to reader...

From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes ...

For neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's there is no unifying biology, explaining why every attempt to cure them has fail...

DescriptionSydney Brenner was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Medicine and Science). He then mo...

Reducere. DescriptionHermeneutics, the study of interpretation, is an essential and valuable branch of philosophy. Hermeneutics is also a central component o...

DescriptionMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution,...

DescriptionFrom popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illnes...

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and wh...

Reducere. Clinical case studies are fundamental in cementing theoretical training, especially for neurological disorders where diagnosis can be difficult. Th...

Avoid unnecessary diagnostic markers, and pathology pitfalls with this practical approach to head and neck surgical pathology. Written by experts i...

Reducere. The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the sprea...

Contributor(s): Author: Philippe BourgoisPhilippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical accla...

For over forty years, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has helped millions of patients around the world to overcome infertility. Careful moni...

DescriptionMatthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the...

The birth of Louise Joy Brown - the world's first baby born following in-vitro fertilization - heralded a medical revolution. Forty years later, ma...

Reducere. Peter van Inwagen, author of the classic book An Essay on Free Will (1983), has established himself over the last forty years as a leading figure i...

Reducere. Drawing on the expertise of an international team of authors, Case Studies in Movement Disorders is a compilation of illustrative cases, demonstrat...

Reducere. Reports reveal an increase in the number of individuals with serious mental illness in jails, prisons and forensic hospitals. Despite the wide-rang...

Reducere. Covering the spectrum of cognitive decline in aging using illustrative cases, from mild impairment to dementia, this set of case studies offers a w...

Reducere. Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, n...

Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, n...

Reducere. Neuroradiological emergencies pose important challenges to the on-call physician, demanding thorough preparedness and quick action. This concise, h...

Reducere. Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical...

DescriptionMounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This bo...

Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Eight centuries before the Black Death, a pandemic of plag...