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Germs 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: 978-1-5261-4078-4
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£85.00
Pre-OrderLeprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
From England to the Mediterranean
Edited by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati
For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe. The chapters, including contributions by leading voices ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2741-9
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£85.00
Pre-OrderAccounting for health
Calculation, paperwork, and medicine, 1500–2000
Edited by Axel C. Hüntelmann and Oliver Falk
Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3516-2
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£80.00
Buy NowWomen's medicine
Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920–70
By Caroline Rusterholz
Women's medicine highlights British female doctors' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4912-1
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£25.00
Buy NowGlobal health and the new world order
Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance
Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell and Laurent Pordié
The phrase 'global health' appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies. In its most visible manifestation, global ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4967-1
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£71.00
Buy NowFeeling the strain
A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain
By Jill Kirby
Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5609-9
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£20.00
Pre-OrderMigrant architects of the NHS
South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)
By Julian Simpson
Migrant architects of the NHS draws on forty-five oral history interviews and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the National Health Service was made. It tells the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4501-7
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£14.99
Buy NowBalancing the self
Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century
Edited by Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore
Many health, environmental, and social challenges across the globe - from diabetes to climate change - are regularly discussed in terms of imbalances in biological, ecological, and social ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3213-0
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£25.00
Buy NowProgress and pathology
Medicine and culture in the nineteenth century
Edited by Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson and Emilie Taylor-Brown
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3368-7
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£25.00
Buy NowCommunicating the history of medicine
Perspectives on audiences and impact
Edited by Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm
Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history. This collection offers a range of case studies on academic outreach from ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4246-7
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£80.00
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