American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans ……続きを見る
Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides a critical perspective on debates and controversies that have divided opinion within psychology both past and present.
Explores the history……続きを見る
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments……続きを見る
It wouldn't be for years after that fateful day when Alexander Fleming sneezed on a petri dish and stumbled upon Penicillin, that the almost miraculous power of this mould would transform the lives ……続きを見る
著者:H.V. Dicks
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2014年10月14日
Originally published in 1970 this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry. Based on the impetus of Freudian and relate……続きを見る
著者:Murray Jackson
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2015年03月24日
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash. Previ……続きを見る
著者:Jie Jack Li
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Over 25 million people in the U.S. alone have benefited from statins--such drugs as Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, Pravachol, and other cholesterol-lowering medicines--in preventing stroke, heart attack, ……続きを見る
著者:Nick Miller
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年03月27日
Dyspraxia is a disorder of voluntary, purposeful, learned movement and is one of the most common sequelae of stroke, head-injury, neoplasm and abnormal ageing. It is also a major complicating factor……続きを見る
The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It ……続きを見る
In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and……続きを見る
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism.”ーWalt……続きを見る
著者:Erika Dyck
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participa……続きを見る
著者:J. Lawson Dick
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年10月16日
After World War I, housing was one of many pressing issues facing the country with multiple families often crowded in together in inadequate housing. This had a dramatic impact on health with increa……続きを見る
著者:Wolfgang U. Eckart
出版社: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
発売日: 2016年05月23日
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
Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and pr……続きを見る
Sex fascinates us. Scares us. Troubles us. Sex, not baseball, is the real American pastime. But the rules are often kept under wraps, and no one's quite sure about the definition of a home run. Unti……続きを見る
It is acknowledged by most students of human behaviour that the idea of guilt is closely connected with that of man’s freedom and responsibility. It is a theme of law-court and pulpit, a concern of ……続きを見る
著者:J.G. McKenzie
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2016年06月10日
Originally published in 1932, Professor McKenzie, author of ‘Souls in the Making’, had been deeply interested for years in helping those afflicted with nervous troubles, moral conflicts, or religiou……続きを見る
Originally published in 1951, this title is a study in developmental psychology with special reference to the effect of various types of religion on mental health and religious experience. With inst……続きを見る
Deux spécialistes se penchent sur les vaccins et leur impact sur notre santé.
BCG, DTP, vaccins antigrippe, contre la coqueluche, l’hépatite B ou encore la rougeole… Chacun d’entre nous est amené, à……続きを見る
著者:Randall M. Packard
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2016年09月15日
A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.
Over the past c……続きを見る
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation f……続きを見る
From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator
Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an acceler……続きを見る
著者:Claire Brock
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年02月28日
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery ……続きを見る
著者:Caroline Bicks
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年07月05日
At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular text……続きを見る
This edition represents an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Phil……続きを見る
The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eig……続きを見る
著者:J. L. Peck
出版社: Read Books Ltd.
発売日: 2017年10月13日
This vintage book contains a complete handbook on foot care, with a special focus on the importance of good-quality and well-fitted shoes. Essentially, it is a guidebook with hints for those who wea……続きを見る
Essex County Overbrook Hosptial details the history of this institution which had its beginnings as an asylym.
What was founded as the Essex County Lunacy Asylum evolved from a single building on So……続きを見る
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throu……続きを見る