In 'Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology' by William A. Hammond, the author delves into the historical and cultural phenomenon of young girls and women who claim to survive for long periods……続きを見る
Frederick William Headland's 'The Action of Medicines in the System' offers a comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms by which medicines interact within the human body. Written in a clear and co……続きを見る
In 'History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present', P. C. Remondino takes readers on a comprehensive journey through the practice of circumcision, exploring its origins, cultural si……続きを見る
著者:Francesca Lanz
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2024年03月05日
Mind Museums offers a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from architecture, museum and exhibition design, ……続きを見る
Thomas Dimsdale's 'The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox' is a groundbreaking work that delves into the practice of inoculation as a preventative measure against smallpox. Written in a……続きを見る
Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent year……続きを見る
著者:William H. Tucker
出版社: Springer Nature Switzerland
発売日: 2023年12月02日
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curv……続きを見る
We are living in a stressful world, yet despite our familiarity with the notion, stress remains an elusive concept. In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of s……続きを見る
There had been numerous debates about sexuality, lust and love in recent times, and philosophers have tried to discern the connection between chastity and religion, and in this book, the correlation……続きを見る
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with peopl……続きを見る
Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still pred……続きを見る
Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring……続きを見る
著者:Camille Robcis
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2021年05月03日
From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime’s “soft extermination” let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur……続きを見る
This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a fo……続きを見る
著者:Carl Erik Fisher
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2022年01月25日
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addictionーa phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunders……続きを見る
著者:Jane Freebody
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2023年02月01日
This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countr……続きを見る
Landmarks Medical and Surgical is a seminal collection that threads together a tapestry of pivotal narratives, insights, and scholarly discussions on the intersections of medical science and surgery……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2023年02月03日
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addres……続きを見る
著者:Åsa Jansson
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年05月02日
This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern b……続きを見る
著者:Claas Kirchhelle
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年04月30日
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller ……続きを見る
著者:Yolana Pringle
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2022年04月29日
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for p……続きを見る
著者:Alice Mauger
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年04月29日
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class……続きを見る
This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years a……続きを見る
著者:Nestar Russell
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年03月09日
Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results h……続きを見る
De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman encyclopedist and a practicing physician. It is the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia; only small ……続きを見る
In 'The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art' by William Clark, readers are given a detailed look into the role of midwives in the historical context of healthcare. Clark's book explore……続きを見る
著者:Chris Millard
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2022年02月04日
This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical persp……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年04月29日
This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ pa……続きを見る
出版社: Editora da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
発売日: 2021年10月08日
Este admirável volume reuniu especialistas de diversos campos do conhecimento para comentar a importância de 15 artigos clássicos associados à descoberta científica de Carlos Chagas, que completou c……続きを見る
著者:Yan Liu
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2021年05月27日
At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from ……続きを見る