From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn't possible to accelerate sof...

A comprehensive study of the entire range of medical practitioners in preindustrial and eraly ind...

An intellectual biography of Van Helmont (1579 1644), showing a scholarly appreciation of his cre...

Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes diseases were constructed and ...

The story of East Coast fever, a lethal disease of cattle, and its scientific study.

A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.

This book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England.

The first thorough study of charity, and medical and poor relief, in post-Renaissance Italy.

This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transf...

This book studies the evolution of medical theory and education in Germany between 1750 and 1820.

In describing and explaining the sexes, medicine and science participated in the delineation of w...

This is a collection of original studies on the new international health and welfare organisation...

This book introduces beginning undergraduate students of computing and computational disciplines...

The advent of tropical medicine was a direct consequence of European and American imperialism, wh...

A life of one of the most successful American physicians of the nineteenth century.

This book introduces beginning undergraduate students of computing and computational disciplines...

Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fasc...

A study of Newsholme's role in the transformation of the British public health system.

This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many American...

A collection of essays on the 'pre-history' of the impact of AIDS, and its subsequent history.

This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unrese...

Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around v lkisch racial ideologies, ...

The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.

An inquiry into the causes and effects of the decline in popular medicine.

An account of eugenicists' efforts to improve the inherited biological quality of the French popu...

This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidati...

A detailed account of the rise of pathological anatomy in France and England.

Explores the causes and significance of the political influence gained by French medical doctors ...

The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health in Britain, when the poor law...

A study of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care in colonial Papua New Guinea.

Charitable Knowledge explores the formation of the teaching hospital in eighteenth-century London.

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness:...

This book argues that the french led the way in the nineteenth-century public health movement.

Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.

This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a c...

A life of one of the most successful American physicians of the nineteenth century.

An account of eugenicists' efforts to improve the inherited biological quality of the French popu...

This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-c...

A collection of essays on the social history of legal medicine including case studies on infantic...

This book revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for men...

Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by m...

From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn't possible to accelerate sof...

Medicine until recently remained a history written by and for practitioners, these essays diverge...

This book explores the tradition of the 'science of man' in French medicine of the era 1750 1850.

A fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes ...

Historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.

The first thorough study of charity, and medical and poor relief, in post-Renaissance Italy.

This book argues that the french led the way in the nineteenth-century public health movement.