This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific mechanical cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved....Daugiau...
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Daugiau...
Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Daugiau...
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée....Daugiau...
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (18231922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents....Daugiau...
This book is an interconnected history of the evolution of global health in the decades before 2019, told through the prism of six decisive moments in which individuals from the World Health Organisation, philanthropic foundations, academia and bila...Daugiau...
The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role of poiesis and imagination play in our understanding of science and of progress is widely explored in this book through taking an eclectic approach to arguing for the reestablishment of ima...Daugiau...
This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on existential risks....Daugiau...
Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and in the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades....Daugiau...
This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Victorian science and technology by drawing upon religio...Daugiau...
This book looks at how the English workplace changed through a greater awareness of germs from c.1880 to 1945. Cutting across a number of different workplaces, it offers new perspectives on the history of the peoples, politics, and practices associa...Daugiau...
This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body....Daugiau...
This book explores the history of international efforts to contagious animal diseases from the 1860s to the mid-1940s. It shows the historical challenges of developing international strategies to urgent global problem areas for which there are still...Daugiau...
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge....Daugiau...
In bringing together for the first time four groups of specialists - doctors, coroners, lawyers and police officers - this monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales and offers a new inter...Daugiau...
This edited collection speaks to a dual interest, by providing innovative and authoritative analyses of the history of Arctic science during the Cold War....Daugiau...
The so-called Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre (PHC), was one of the most important social experiments of the modern era. Combining a micro-historical perspective with approaches from...Daugiau...
The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history. Moreover,...Daugiau...
