The collection of essays by prominent historians of the Reformation explores the experience of re...

The Industrial Revolution has been, and continues to be, the focus of massive historiographical a...

The collection of essays by prominent historians of the Reformation explores the experience of re...

The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment, looking at Bethlem's rol...

From ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in med...

The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in t...

Fifteen historians examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining histori...

First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout re...

Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of cult...

The main literary and artistic currents of Romanticism are well known. This volume aims uniquely ...

'The Renaissance in National Context' aims to dispel the commonly held view that the great efflor...

Examines the effects of the 'Scientific Revolution' on scientific thinking and describes the effe...

In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of natu...

First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout re...

'Nerves' became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for V...

A volume of essays offering accounts of national experience during the Industrial Revolution in E...

A short but authoritative study of disease, medicine and their impact on English society.

This is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to tolerat...

This is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to tolerat...

2003 collection of international essays exploring the rise of the lunatic asylum in the nineteent...

A collection of essays exploring the complex history of drugs and narcotics throughout historyfro...

2003 collection of international essays exploring the rise of the lunatic asylum in the nineteent...

The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the W...

The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.

In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary p...

In this volume, leading scholars of early modern science argue the importance of specifically nat...

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Rea...

The aim of this book is to put the beliefs of the Enlightenment firmly into their social context.

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

This book presents a detailed account of how the discipline of geology developed between the mid-...

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Rea...

A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition fro...

The Ultimate Theory of Everything

A collection of essays describing the historical connection between nature and society.

The historical impact of the national movements in Europe has been dramatic and continues to be a...

For many years, the term 'fin de siecle' has been used to imply a state of decadence which was th...

The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards hea...

Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of ...

In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dim...

First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers conti...

Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from ...

Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and them...

Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developme...

First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers conti...

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards hea...

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A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its s...