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Offers reflections, provocative questions, and practical strategies for ethical, responsible approaches to health history. In Do Less Harm, editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring toge……続きを見る

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book a……続きを見る

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual for nations recovering from wars to incentivize their……続きを見る

The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France considers how……続きを見る

Leeuwenhoek’s Legatees and Beijerinck’s Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands offers a tour of the history of Dutch medical virology. Beginning with the discovery of the fi……続きを見る

This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – ……続きを見る

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s……続きを見る

O livro resgata a história da institucionalização da psicologia na Bahia no período da ditadura militar (1968-1980), mostrando como o contexto autoritário da época afetou o desenvolvimento e modos d……続きを見る

A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem t……続きを見る

Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of sata……続きを見る

「我們終歸要回到細胞」 我們得要了解細胞，才能了解人體。 我們需要它們，才能了解醫學。 但最基本的是，我們需要細胞的故事，來講述生命和我們自己的故事。 普立茲獎得主、《萬病之王》《基因》作者ーー辛達塔．……続きを見る

Sigmund Freud was a catalyst who signaled a seat change in how humanity came to understand the world and how it relates to the human mind. And if you have ever had a "Freudian slip," you know full w……続きを見る

A Brief Social History of Tuberculosis delves into the history of tuberculosis and its impact on human populations. Drawing on research and expert experiences, the three research chapters (3–5) will……続きを見る

This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basi……続きを見る

In "Instinct and the Unconscious," W.H.R. Rivers intricately explores the interplay between innate instincts and the complexities of the human psyche. Rivers, a pioneering anthropologist and psychol……続きを見る

L. Deslandes' "A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses" navigates the often-taboo terrain of sexual health from a 19th-century perspective. T……続きを見る

In "Spiritualism and the New Psychology," Millais Culpin navigates the intricate intersection of spiritual beliefs and emerging psychological theories in the early 20th century. Culpin employs an an……続きを見る

Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns a……続きを見る

**The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its ancient origins to nineteenth-century epidemics to its modern reemergence amongst the global poor “Krishnan is a powerful storyteller, and h……続きを見る

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

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

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 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

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

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

Pharmacographia offers a comprehensive exploration of medicinal plants and their uses, capturing the essence of 19th-century pharmacology and botany. This seminal work weaves an intricate tapestry o……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. E……続きを見る

In "The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to About 1800," Albert H. Buck meticulously chronicles the evolution of medical practices and theories from ancient civilizations through the thres……続きを見る

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

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