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Implementing a global health programme
Smallpox and Nepal
By Susan Heydon
Worldwide eradication of the devastating viral disease of smallpox was devised as a distant global policy, but success depended on implementing a global vaccination programme within nation ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7666-0
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Pre-OrderTechnology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
Edited by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich
Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely explored by scholars. In this edited volume, the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7114-6
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£90.00
Pre-OrderPatient voices in Britain, 1840-1948
Edited by Anne Hanley and Jessica Meyer
Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8240-1
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Buy Now'Everyday health', embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
Edited by Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney and Daisy Payling
What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it? This volume moves away from top-down histories of health and medicine that focus on states, medical ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7065-1
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£90.00
Buy NowOn trial
Testing new drugs in psychiatry, 1940-1980
By Marietta Meier, Mario König and Magaly Tornay
The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn. On Trial revolves around one of its pioneers, psychiatrist Roland Kuhn, who practiced in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6980-8
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£90.00
Buy NowDoing psychiatry in postwar Europe
Practices, routines and experiences
Edited by Gundula Gahlen, Volker Hess, Marianna Scarfone and Henriette Voelker
Doing psychiatry engages with the history of European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a close and fresh look at the practices that contributed to reshape the mental ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7346-1
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£25.00
Buy NowMotherhood confined
Maternal health in English prisons, 1853-1955
By Rachel E. Bennett
When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6679-1
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£25.00
Buy NowGerms and governance
The past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control
Edited by Anne Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupree and Fay Bound Alberti
Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers to consider the past, present and future of hospital infection control. Combining historical case-studies ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7198-6
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Buy NowSpectacles and the Victorians
Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity
By Gemma Almond-Brown
This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6135-2
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£85.00
Buy NowCold, hard steel
The myth of the modern surgeon
By Agnes Arnold-Forster
Brilliant, volatile and invariably male, the surgeon stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable part of western culture. Setting out to anatomise this stereotype, Cold, hard steel ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5662-4
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