What exactly did early modern physicians do? Treated patients certainly, taught, studied anatomy in the flesh, cultivated clientele and patronage, shared case reports, read and wrote scholarly books and letters, and perhaps improved the healing art....Daugiau...
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Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) has been the subject of considerable historical study, both biographical and with particular focus on his work on hysteria and influence on two of his many students, Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud. This project,...Daugiau...
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, young women and girls were increasingly to become subjects of popular medicine and professional academic research in the medical and human sciences. They were the subjects of sexual abuse cases, psychol...Daugiau...
Hieke Huistra introduces a new way of understanding anatomical collections: as dynamic and flexible entities, intended for hands-on use and to be reused again and again. This prolonged use is best illustrated with the oldest institutional collections...Daugiau...
This is the first monograph to chart the changing health situation in the former capital of the Russian Empire during the first half of the twentieth century. It tells the story of how the Russian - then Soviet - government and public health aut...Daugiau...
This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medici...Daugiau...
Between 1550 and 1750 all over Europe post-mortems were carried out on those who had died of a disease. In households, courts, hospitals and the legal arena, bodies were cut up and observed for a variety of purposes, and yet this practice and the kno...Daugiau...
Exploring innovative plague advice crafted by German physicians and clerics during the sixteenth century, this book argues that a loose medical reform movement unfolded in vernacular print inspired by the growth of vernacular print, Protestantism, al...Daugiau...
Through a case study of the work of the renowned anatomist and keen collector Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), this book contributes to the cultural history of early modern natural philosophy, medicine and the body by focusing on the widespread fascinat...Daugiau...
The early decades of the eighteenth century saw the appearance of a completely new type of surgical practitioner in France the dentiste. The use of this title was of the utmost significance, indicating not just the making of a new practitioner but of...Daugiau...
Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions...Daugiau...
The British apprenticeship model of nurse training, developed under Florence Nightingales influence from 1860 at St Thomass Hospital, gained national and world-wide recognition. Its end was heralded with the publication of the last national syllabu...Daugiau...
Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations. The study of epidemics heightens our understanding of relationships between economic systems and living con...Daugiau...
In the popular imagination, the notion of military medicine prior to the twentieth century is dominated by images of brutal ignorance, superstition and indifference. In an age before the introduction of anaesthetics, antibiotics and the sterilisatio...Daugiau...
Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in t...Daugiau...
Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the essays in this volume deliberately break with a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS...Daugiau...
Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and pre-modern medicine, this volume reveals how physicians practiced alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. It shows how, besides sharing knowledge, physicians and al...Daugiau...
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj presents in detail Nightingales involvement with India and Indians, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the narrow sphere of army sanitation to the socio-economic condition of the who...Daugiau...
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucida...Daugiau...
The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment...Daugiau...