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In this major new study, James F. Stark provides the first historical account of the most dominant ideas, practices, and material cultures associated with anti-ageing and rejuvenation in modern Brit……続きを見る

Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, mental health professionals have sought to use their knowledge of human psychology to understand - and intervene in - political developments. From Barry Goldwate……続きを見る

The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only one hundred years ago, in even the world’s wealthiest nations, children died in great numbersーof d……続きを見る

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherap……続きを見る

Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy years. It……続きを見る

Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of mod……続きを見る

This volume translates Brentano’s intentionality into medieval psychological and ontological discussions through Sadrian theories of sense perception and mental existence. Applying a new methodology……続きを見る

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused o……続きを見る

In a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing how humiliation - and the feeling of shame that it e……続きを見る

This Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the history of Influenza. Brief and salient facts are set forth relating to……続きを見る

A sad story of disease and death during the cholera epidemic of 1832 is retold ten years later in "The Knickerbocker" magazine. 続きを見る

In recent decades, developments in research technologies and therapeutic advances have generated immense public recognition for neuroscience. However, its origins as a field, often linked to partner……続きを見る

This article, "Spectacles," by George Cumming McWhorter, was originally published in the January 1862 issue of "The Knickerbocker" magazine. 続きを見る

The "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease. Surge……続きを見る

This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. The West India Regiments were part of the British military establishment fo……続きを見る

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line trea……続きを見る

This collection of readings has been complied on the assumption that for an adequate explanation of the success and failure, the strengths and weaknesses, of democracy, it is necessary to resort to ……続きを見る

Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of……続きを見る

In "Observations of an Orderly," Ward Muir offers a poignant and incisive examination of life within a military hospital during World War I, framed through the eyes of a ward orderly. The narrative ……続きを見る

« L'homme est un composé chimique ; les maladies ont pour cause une altération quelconque de ce composé : il faut donc des médicaments chimiques pour combattre les maladies. » Paracelse fut l’une de……続きを見る

In "Tractus de Hermaphrodites; Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites," Giles Jacob explores the intricate and often misunderstood realm of hermaphroditism through a blend of empirical observation and phi……続きを見る

This challenging book critically examines three forms of contemporary psychology, all displaying various signs of crisis, through analogy with humour associated with three different class perspectiv……続きを見る

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Span……続きを見る

This rich history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women religious in establishing the hospitals at the core of New York City's extensive Catholic medical network. Beginning with the openin……続きを見る

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact,……続きを見る

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies. The interplay bet……続きを見る

“Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace” was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. Psychoanalysis, he said, had over……続きを見る

Die Corona-Pandemie hat die Gesellschaft abrupt verändert – und ihre Folgen werden lange nachwirken. Zu Beginn beherrschte die Expertise der Virologie die öffentliche Debatte. Angesichts der Tragwei……続きを見る

This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship bet……続きを見る

Nelly Roussel (1878–1922)ーthe first feminist spokeswoman for birth control in Europeーchallenged both the men of early twentieth-century France, who sought to preserve the status quo, and the women……続きを見る