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Am Anfang der neuzeitlichen Psychiatrie in Deutschland stand die Idee der Aufklärung, dass der Mensch mit Vernunft begabt und zur Freiheit geboren sei. Mithin konnten auch Wahn- und Irrsinnige nicht……続きを見る

Hans-Ulrich Wehler war der wohl wirkungsmächtigste Historiker der Bundesrepublik – und ein brillanter Kommentator des Zeitgeschehens. Seine Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte in fünf Bänden, das Haupt……続きを見る

Ökonomen verstehen ihr Fach gerne als «normale» Wissenschaft, die alle Ideen bewahrt, die richtig und wahr sind, und alle ausmustert, die falsch und irreführend sind. Doch auch Ökonomen irren sich –……続きを見る

Zu Recht gilt Max Weber (1864–1920) heute international als einer der einflussreichsten Denker des 20.Jahrhunderts. Seine Werke zählen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zu den Schlüsseltexten……続きを見る

Geschröpft und zur Ader gelassen erkundet die vielfältige, oftmals seltsame und manchmal schauerliche Art und Weise, in der die Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg versucht haben, Krankheiten zu b……続きを見る

The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those involving surgery, must have proved almo……続きを見る

Wolfgang U. Eckart setzt sich vornehmlich mit dem politischen Sauerbruch – oder besser: der politischen Selbstinszenierung des großen Chirurgen – im Wandel der Systeme, die seinen Lebensweg begleite……続きを見る

In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Cr……続きを見る

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues aris……続きを見る

From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way. This comprehensive volume is the first book in over twenty years to explore the history……続きを見る

Under the rule of the descendants of Chinggis Khan (1167-1227), China saw the development of a new culture in which medical practice came to be considered a highly respected occupation for elite men……続きを見る

Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Prize for best Edited book published in 2016 Psychoanalysis in Italy is a particularly diverse and vibrant profession, embracing a number of ……続きを見る

Called out by a frightened country doctor in the dark night of a prairie winter in 1919 to assist with an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Robert Ross travels to an isolated farmhouse where he finds hims……続きを見る

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the em……続きを見る

The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - e……続きを見る

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra……続きを見る

Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegation……続きを見る

The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach……続きを見る

Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After grad……続きを見る

Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that i……続きを見る

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/88024/Cambray_Synchronicity_9781603441438_txt.pdf?sequence=4 In 1952 C. G. Jung published a par……続きを見る

Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and……続きを見る

Based on extensive research, this book is a fundamental critique of psychiatry that examines the foundations of psychiatry, refutes its basic tenets, and traces the workings of the industry through ……続きを見る

A fascinating discussion on the different theories of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, the once friends would go on to become enemies, and champions of their own opposing schools of psychological though……続きを見る

By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and ……続きを見る

Psychology has always defined itself as a science and yet it has lacked the theoretical and methodological unity regarded as characteristic of the natural sciences. Nicolò Gaj explores the topical q……続きを見る

Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasiz……続きを見る

Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unm……続きを見る

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France presents the first full-length discussion of menst……続きを見る