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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**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

DAL TALENTO RIVOLUZIONARIO DI MASATO TANAKA TUTTI I SEGRETI DELLA PSICHE SPIEGATI PER IMMAGINI Oltre 150 concetti e teorie dei 96 psicologi più influenti del pensiero occidentale tradotti in immagi……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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer wit……続きを見る