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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays on David Hume Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment Industry Knowledge and Humanity Science Technology and Culture 17001945
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France Stories of Gender and Reproduction Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Taylor & Francis Centres of Medical Excellence Medical Travel and Education in Europe 15001789 The History of Medicine in Context
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Healing Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter The History of Medicine in Context
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt Empire and the Making of the Modern World 16502000
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Taylor & Francis The Doctor in the Victorian Novel Family Practices
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Taylor & Francis Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Disability in the Middle Ages
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Taylor & Francis Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science
Book SynopsisSecrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the human body, and new facts about the way nature worked. These ''secrets'' became popular items of commerce and trade, as the quest for new and exclusive bits of information met the vibrant early modern marketplace. Whether disclosed widely in print or kept more circumspect in manuscripts, secrets helped drive an expanding interest in acquiring knowledge throughout early modern Europe. Bringing together international scholars, this volume provides a pan-European and interdisciplinary overview on the topic. Each essay offers significant new interpretations of the role played by secrets in theirTrade Review'The collection makes a welcome and differentiated contribution to this field of research. Complemented by future studies on related aspects - such as political secrecy - this work can help us attain a better understanding of what the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once called the 'cosmological status' of secrecy in the early modern period.' Ambix 'Clearly, while the larger subject of secrets in early modern Europe is large and diffuse, the carefully limited study of one kind - the recipes of the period - and their proliferation and use, can open our eyes to many of the intertwined relationships among words, things, and values. The fascinating details of secrets are echoed, too, in the often surprising histories offered by the authors in this collection.' Renaissance Quarterly 'These essays all offer new insight into the transmission of natural knowledge in early modern Europe... this volume should serve as a stimulus to further work on the endlessly fascinating topic of secrets.' ISIS '... a strong and well-organised collection.' Social History of Medicine 'The individual essays that make up this volume are certainly well worth reading. Many are of a very high standard, and they make important contributions to debates that would be of interest to specialists of, say, alchemy, or domestic medicine, or to those with an interest in ideals of secrecy and openness in mid-seventeenth-century England, or indeed the role played by craft knowledge during the Scientific Revolution.' British Journal for the History of Science 'This collection of essays draws welcome attention to the role of secrets in early modern ’knowledge making’, and brings together diverse work from a research field that is just beginning to realise its potential... The editors also deserve commendation for highlighting the latest research trends in their introduction as they supplement the essays’ perspectives with their own knowledge of relevant primary sources.' Sixteenth Century StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: secrets and knowledge, Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin; Part I Defining Secrets: How to read a book of secrets, William Eamon; What is a secret? Secrets and craft knowledge in early modern Europe, Pamela H. Smith. Part II Secrecy and Openness: The secrets of Sir Hugh Platt, Ayesha Mukherjee; Robert Boyle and secrecy, Michael Hunter; Openness vs. secrecy in the Hartlib circle: revisiting 'democratic Baconism' in Interregnum England, Michelle DiMeo. Part III Illicit Secrets: Anna Zieglerin's alchemical revelations, Tara Nummedal; Face waters, oils, love magic and poison: making and selling secrets in early modern Rome, Tessa Storey. Part IV Secrets and Health: Keeping beauty secrets in early modern Iberia, Montserrat CabrA(c); Secrets to healthy living: the revival of the preventive paradigm in late Renaissance Italy, Sandro Cavallo; Secrets of place: the medical casebooks of Vivant-Augustin Ganiare, Lisa Wynne Smith; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Plague Hospitals
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Taylor & Francis Titian Colonna and the Renaissance Science of
Book SynopsisTitian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini''s and Titian''s famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for the camerino of Duke Alfonso d''Este of Ferrara, and Francesco Colonna''s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - were conceived as mnemonic or pedagogical devices aimed at educating the reader/beholder in the medical science of reproductive physiology and the maintenance of sexual health. It is further argued that the learned courtier Mario Equicola, who conceived the pictorial program of Duke Alfonso''s camerino, had read Colonna''s text and was extensively inspired by its prior literary argument. The study is organized in two parts, intimately interrelated. The first part is a study of Alfonso d''Este''s camerino, with a general introduction, individual chapters on each of Bellini''s and Titian''s four pictorial bacchanals, and a conclusion proposing a new and more accurate reconstruction of thTrade ReviewRated as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor 'This book sets a new standard for the analysis of Renaissance texts and for iconographic studies in art history. Rehearsing in compelling detail the process through which mytho-poetic inventions were conceived in Italy for courtly cabinet-paintings, Colantuono presents a fascinating re-reading of Bellini’s and Titian’s famous bacchanals, painted for Alfonso d’Este in the early sixteenth century. Informed by a neo-Aristotelian discourse on the natural (seasonal) causes of sexual desire, these paintings, we now understand, served to instruct the knowledgeable viewer on the healthful and productive management of the male libido, so important to the dynastic endurance of the d’Este and other Italian elites who constituted the paintings' viewing audience. Deftly combining erudite intellectual history with a situated excursus on the snares of libidinal desire and the efficacy of managing sex, this book presents a cogent interpretation of famously enigmatic pictorial texts and is a must read across the disciplines in early modern studies, offering a paradigmatic analysis of the production and reception of Renaissance art.' Karen-edis Barzman, Binghamton University, USA 'Any good book starts with a good question. In this case it’s a puzzle, involving a pseudo-Aristotelian text on the nature of the human libido, a series of celebrated Renaissance paintings and a riddle: how did Aristotle’s theories of procreation make it into Titian’s paintings and Colonna’s masterpiece? This book reads like a mystery with a philosophical, indeed Aristotelian, denouement. At one point I couldn't put it down... An extraordinary example of scholarship.' Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, Canada'In Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire, Anthony Colantuono examines erotic images of seminal importance to Renaissance iconography and sensibility. His investigations encompass a wide-ranging spectrum of literary and artistic sources concerned with mythology, medicine, witchcraft, and astrology, many of which have not been previously explored in this context... while Colantuono's study is sometimes imperfectly argued, there are many intriguing iconographic nuggets to be mined from it.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola and the Libidinal Seasons: Proemium: The libido in winter: Bellini's Feast of the Gods; The libido in spring: Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne; The libido in summer: Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians; The libido in Autumn: Titian's Feast of Venus; Interpreting the camerino: the bacchanals as procreative pedagogy. Part 2 Colonna's Poliphilus - the Science and Season of Sexual Performance: Proemium: Duke Guidubaldo's dysfunction: Poliphilus and the diagnosis of love; Poliphilus's nightmare and erotic magic: an excursus on the bewitching of the male genitalia; Poliphilus's wet dream; A Venus in the bedroom; Coloring the roses: Colonna, Titan and the '3rd Venus'; A sacred/profane love: the Dodonian font and Poliphilus's wedding; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
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Taylor & Francis Madness Medicine and Miracle in TwelfthCentury England
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Taylor & Francis RevivalFertility and Sterility in Marriage Their Voluntary Promotion and Limitation 1929
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Quid pro quo Studies in the History of Drugs 367 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Science and Society Historical Essays on the Relations of Science Technology and Medicine 434 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World 17001900
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Taylor & Francis Evidence in Action between Science and Society
Book SynopsisThis 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.The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practiceâin other words, on âœevidence in action.â The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their r
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emerging Pandemics
Book SynopsisPandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments. Thus, diseases of epidemic and pandemic scale are mostly zoonotic, some of which include AIDS, Zika virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19. The book seeks to explore the documented history of pandemics and various epidemics that have the potential of turning into pandemics with the warming climate, pollution, and environmental destruction.The book covers some of the most essential elements of the diseases of pandemic nature and their relationship with the environment: Environment as a reservoir of human diseases Climate change: emerging driver of infectious diseases Occurrence and environmental dimensions of specific pandemics and epidemics Pandemics, environment, and globalisation: understanding the interlinkage in the context of COVID-19 Climate change and zoonotic diseases: malaria, plague, dengue, encephaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Occurrence and Environmental Dimensions of Specific Pandemics and Epidemics Chapter 2 Climate Change: Emerging Driver of Infectious Diseases Chapter 3 Economic Outcomes of Emerging Pandemics and its Implications on the Environment Chapter 4 Tuberculosis: An old enemy of mankind and way to next pandemic Chapter 5 Pandemics, Environment, and Globalisation: Understanding the Interlinkage in the Context of COVID-19 Chapter 6 Climate Change and Zoonotic Diseases: Malaria, Plague, Dengue, Encephalitis Chapter 7 Environmental dimensions of Zika Virus triggered outbreak and its association with neurological complications like Guillain-Barrésyndrome and microcephaly Chapter 8 Emerging contaminants in the environment and their linkage with COVID-19 Chapter 9 Lassa fever in Nigeria: case fatality ratio, social consequences and prevention Chapter 10 Contribution of anthropogenic factors in the global advancement of Zika virus
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Globalization Displacement and Psychiatry
Book SynopsisThis book explores diasporic identities and lived experiences that emerge in global patterns of oppression and considers the consequences of treatment and cure when patients experience mental illness due to war, displacement and surveillance. Going beyond psychiatric institutions and conventional psychiatric knowledge by focusing on informal networks, socially contingent value systems, and cultural sites of healing, this book considers how communities utilize trauma productively for healing. The chapters in this volume consider the detection of mental illness and its treatment through claims to citizenship and belonging as well as denials of social identity and psychic experiences by institutions of the state. A multidisciplinary team of contributors and international range of case studies explore topics such as colonial trauma, feminized trauma, reproductive violence, military mental health and more. This book is an essential resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, politiTrade Review"With a sophisticated grasp of the ‘psy’ disciplines across global contexts, Khan and Schwebach have curated an incisive and generative critique of the psychiatrization of trauma and the construction of 'mental health’ that should be taken quite seriously. Collectively, the contributions have profound implications both for how we understand the history of psychology and how we might imagine help, healing, and justice less rooted in structures and epistemologies of violence."Patrick R. Grzanka, Professor of Psychology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville"An exciting and very thoughtful volume, which elegantly rethinks the trauma word, its meanings and practices on wide, global, American and intimate scales. This book’s finely rendered cases will be taught and taught again."Nancy Rose Hunt, Ph.D., Professor of History, The University of Florida, author of A Nervous State (2016) and A Colonial Lexicon (1999)Table of ContentsPart 1: Trauma, Globality and Death 1. Where Psyche, History and Politics Merge: Decolonizing PTSD and Traumatic Memory with Fanon 2. Obligatory Death in Wuhan: The Power to Decide who Died, and Therapies for Those who Survived Part 2: Global Surveillance and Trauma 3. American Exceptionalism and the Construction of Trauma in the Global War on Terror 4. Militarism, Psychiatry and Social Impunity in Kashmir Part 3: Culture, Displacement and Healing 5. Healing the Sickness of Fighting: Medicalization and Warriordom in Postcolonial North America 6. Jinns and Trauma: Unbounded Spirits and the Ontology of Mental Illness in Pakistan Part 4: Global Bodies, Logics and Clinics 7. Feminized Trauma, Responsive Desire, and Social/Global Logics of Control: A Dialogue 8. Reproductive Violence and Settler Statecraft 9. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI): Cases/Experiences of Trauma and Healing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Doctors World
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the extraordinary life of Claver Morris and the society in which he lived. After his marriage at Chelsea in 1685, Claver Morris moved to Somerset where he established an outstanding reputation for his work as a physician. His diaries show us how he worked with apothecaries and surgeons, and travelled widely to treat all kind of patients, from the children of the poor to those of the landed gentry. The diaries also tell us about the joys and pains of Claver's personal and family life, and of his various intrigues. Claver Morris was a man of many talents: immensely enterprising, knowledgeable, sociable and loving. His house was always filled with music, guests and entertainments. Yet he was often faced with disputes and troubles partly of his own making as when he courted a bishop's daughter, or stole some land to build his Queen Anne house. The Doctor's World provides a unique portrait of a physician living and working through the politicalTable of ContentsChapter 1: Grace / Chapter 2: Claver / Chapter 3: The Cathedral City / Chapter 4: The Physician / Chapter 5: The Monmouth Rebellion / Chapter 6: Mother & Child / Chapter 7: Visits to New Patients / Chapter 8: Dr Morris / Chapter 9: Two Bishops / Chapter 10: Wicked Practices / Chapter 11: A Turning Point / Chapter 12: Secret Marriage & Courtship / Chapter 13: William Penn / Chapter 14: Baby Betty / Chapter 15: Bad Omens / Chapter 16: A New Home / Chapter 17: Wedding Bells / Chapter 18: The Great Storm / Chapter 19: The Tolling Bell / Chapter 20: "Drink If You Please" / Chapter 21: High Crimes & Misdemeanours / Chapter 22: Among the Gentry / Chapter 23: Queen Anne’s Peace / Chapter 24: Family & Friends / Chapter 25: The Letter / Chapter 26: The Severance / Chapter 27: Loss & Reconciliation / Chapter 28: The Common Lands / Chapter 29: A Contested Election / Chapter 30: The Glastonbury Enclosure / Chapter 31: 'A Very Hot Dry Summer' / Chapter 32: Seen by Candlelight / Chapter 33: Dining Alone
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care
Book SynopsisThis unique work represents the recording and analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the pioneering general practitioner Dr Hetty Ockrim with over seventy patients, as well as office staff and members of the nursing team, between 1989 and 1992 in her former practice in the Ibrox/Govan areas of Glasgow, places of significant socio-economic deprivation. Her focus in undertaking this study was on personal and social, rather than just clinical, issues. The interviews are accompanied by background and commentary for the study, reflecting the full breadth of general practice. Many of the interviewees had memories stretching back before the NHS, providing a unique historical perspective of service development, as well as invaluable directions for improving current and future general practice. Key Features Provides a historical context for the developments in health over several decades prior to the study Shows how oral history methods haTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Biography List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Medical and Practice Background Chapter 3: Study Methodology Chapter 4: Practice Organisation Chapter 5: Stigma and Marginalisation Chapter 6: Clinical Topics Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusion Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context
Book SynopsisThis Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of the astral and other sciences in the Mamluk sultanate; and narratives about knowledge. The main arguments are directed against the then dominant historiographical claims about the exclusion of the ancient sciences from the madrasa and cognate educational institutes, the suppression of philosophy and other ancient sciences in Damascus after 1229, the limited role of the new experts for timekeeping in the educational and professional exercise of this science, and the marginal impact of astrology under Mamluk rule. It is shown that the muwaqqits (timekeepers) were important teachers at madrasas and Sufi convents, that Mamluk officers sought out astrologers for cTable of Contents‘The location of the Ancient or ‚rational’ sciences in Muslim educational landscapes (AH 500-1100),’ Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 4(1), 2002: 47-71. / ‘Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī on Muwaqqits, Mu’adhdhins, and the Teachers of Various Astronomical Disciplines in Mamluk Cities in the Fifteenth Century,’ in (eds.) Emilia Calvo, Mercè Comes, Roser Puig, Mònica Rius, A Shared Legacy, Islamic Science East and West, Homage to professor J.M. Millàs Vallicrosa, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions, 2008, 129-150. / ‘Ayyubid Princes and their Scholarly Clients from the Ancient Sciences,’ in Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 2010, 326-56. / ‘Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies: structure and rhetoric, identities and outcomes,’ in Eleanor Robson, Jackie Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 301-28. / ‘Courtly Patronage of the Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic Societies,’ Al-Qanṭara: revista de estudios árabes, XXIX (2008), 403-436. / ‘The language of 'Patronage' in Islamic societies before 1700,’ Cuadernos del CEMYR 20 (2012), 11-22. / ‘The Study of Geometry According to al-Sakhāwī (Cairo, 15th c) and al-Muḥibbī (Damascus, 17th c),’ in J. W. Dauben, S. Kirschner, A. Kühne, P. Kunitzsch and R. Lorch eds., Mathematics Celestial and Terrestrial, Festschrift for Menso Folkerts zum 65. Geburtstag. Acta Historica Leopoldina 54 (2008), 323–341. Halle/Saale: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. / ‘On Four Sciences and Their Audiences in Ayyubid and Mamluk Societies,’ in Syrinx von Hees ed. Inhitat -The Decline Paradigm: Its Influence and Persistence in Writing Arab Cultural History. Würzburg: Ergon, 2012, 139-172. / ‘Narratives of knowledge in Islamic societies: what do they tell us about scholars and their contexts?’ Almagest, 4(1), 2013: 74-95. / ‘Sanctioning knowledge,’ Al-Qanṭara: revista de estudios árabes, 35(1), 2014: 277-309.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medicine in Modern Britain 17801950
Book SynopsisMedicine in Modern Britain 1780â1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine â scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional â in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times. Divided thematically, each chapter within this book addresses a different aspect of medicine, covering diseases, ideas, practices, institutions, practitioners and the state. This book centres on an era of rapid and profound change in medicine and gives students all they need to establish a solid understanding of the history of medicine in Britain, by offering a clear and coherent narrative of the changes and continuities in medicine, including names, dates, events and ideas. Each aspect of medicine discussed within the book is explored and contextualised, providing an overview of the wider social and political background that surrounded them. The chapters are followed by a documents section, containing important primary sources to encourage students to eTrade Review'This easy to read and engaging book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of medicine in modern Britain, including the various approaches, sources and terminology used by medical historians. I enthusiastically recommend this book to students as an up-to-date introduction to the history of medicine that identifies geographical variations in British experiences of health and medicine, and that touches upon recent research themes such as ‘health’ and ‘domestic’ medicine'.Kathryn Woods, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction; Part II: Narrative 2. Disease in modern Britain; 3. Medical ideas; 4. Medical practices; 5. Medical care in institutions; 6. Medical practitioners; 7. Health and the state; Part III: Assessment 8. Medicine in modern Britain: change, continuity, variation; Part IV: Documents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Poison Medicine and Disease in Late Medieval and
Book SynopsisThis book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 12001600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease. Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical textswith an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of diseasethis study brings to light premodern physicians'' debates about the potential existence, nature, and properties of a category of substance theoretically harmful to the human body in even the smallest amount. Focusing on the category of poison (venenum) rather than on specific drugs reframes and remixes the standard histories of toxicology, pharmacology, and etiology, as well as shows how these aspects of medicine (although not yet formalized as independent disciplines) interacted with and shaped one another. Physicians argued, for instance, about what properties might distinguish poisTable of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements;Introduction; 1. Classical Authorities and Traditions The ambiguity of pharmaka and venena. Prevention, symptoms, and remedies. Medical pharmacotherapy and theories of poison. Compilation, synthesis, and specific form. Conclusion 2. Poison and Venom in the Latin West before 1300 Poisons and venoms in translation. Encyclopedic poisons. Qualities, quantities, and forms. Regulating poisonous drugs. Conclusion. 3. Towards a New Toxicology Food, medicine, and poison.A new kind of poison text. New "problems" of poison. Patronage, poison, and medical learning. Conclusion. 4. Plague, Poison, and Metaphor Putrefied and poisoned air. Plague as poison in the body. Spreadable and contagious poison. Conclusion. 5. Poisonous Properties, Bodies, and Forms Occult definitions and forms. Poisonous properties. Poisonous bodies. Poisoning, sorcery, and the evil eye. Sympathetic forms. Conclusion. 6. Poison, Putrefaction, and Ontology of Disease Poisons, contagions, and the French Disease. Poison as cause of disease. Separating poison and medicine with Paracelsus. Ontologies of poisons, forms, seeds, and disease. Conclusion. 7. Reframing Toxicology Reconciling the language of medicine and poison. New approaches to venenum. Poisons, venoms, and corruptions in the body. ConclusionEpilogueBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd EighteenthCentury British Midwifery Part I
Book SynopsisGives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives.
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Cambridge University Press History Bubonic Plague Br
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Cambridge University Press The Midwives of 17C London Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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Cambridge University Press Height Health and History
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Cambridge University Press The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press The Story of Taxol Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anticancer Drug
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Cambridge University Press Spreading Germs Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain 18651900 Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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Cambridge University Press Literature Medicine 19C Britain From Mary Shelley to George Eliot Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century
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Cambridge University Press From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry
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Cambridge University Press Vital Accounts
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Cambridge University Press Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Book SynopsisBy carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government over urban filth but as a politically savvy choice to undermine the potential of a public medicine to provide a basis for radical criticism of laissez faire capitalism, this book opens the possibility for understanding health as a matter of justice.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'In this splendid scholarly study, Chris Hamlin offers a major reinterpretation of Edwin Chadwick and the public health movement. The consequences of Chadwick's politics are with us to the present day. This is indispensable reading for anyone interested in health and welfare.' The Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineReview of the hardback: 'Hamlin tells us how public health was 'invented' about 150 years ago, with Chadwick as the key actor, and tells it with such pace and excitement that it is hard to put down. Every educated person should read it: certainly all politicians, doctors, every student of public health and all concerned with international development.' London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineReview of the hardback: 'Christopher Hamlin is among the best and most incisive innovators in nineteenth century environmental, medical and cultural history. In Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick, he has produced a re-evaluation which will become seminal. Even more importantly, Hamlin persuades us radically to rethink and redefine what we mean when we talk about 'public health'.' Bill Luckin, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Health as Money; 2. A Political Medicine; 3. Prelude to the Sanitary Report, 1833–1838; 4. The Making of the Sanitary Report, 1839–1842; 5. The Sanitary Report; 6. Chadwick's Evidence: The Local Reports; 7. Sanitation Triumphant: The Health of Towns Commission, 1843–1845; 8. The Politics of Public Health, 1841–1848; 9. Selling Sanitation: the Inspectors and the Local Authorities, 1848-1854; 10. Lost in the Pipes; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Battle Against Heart Disease A Physician Traces the History of Mans Achievements in this Field for the General Reader
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Cambridge University Press Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English
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Cambridge University Press Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians
Book SynopsisUsing data collected from all parts of the continent, this 1995 book is a study of the health of Australia's original inhabitants over 50,000 years. A broad-ranging book offering fresh insight into the study of Australian prehistory and Aboriginal culture, the book also illuminates the origins and ecology of human disease.Trade Review"Well written; extensive bibliography; excellent and highly instructive photographs and data tables. A worthwhile acquisition." N. Krusko, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. General methodology; 2. The Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul; 3. Pathology in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Australian hominids; 4. Stress in traditional Aboriginal society; 5. Infectious disease; 6. Osteoarthritis; 7. Trauma; 8. Dental disease; 9. Neoplastic disease; 10. Congenital disease; 11. The pathology of a Late Holocene Papua New Guinea community (Motupore); 12. A personal view of the reburial issue in Australia; 13. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Leprosy and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Traumatic Pasts
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Cambridge University Press History of Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Lunacy
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Cambridge University Press Innovation in Chinese Medicine
Book SynopsisIn a series of penetrating case-studies, twelve contributors explore the transformation of Chinese medicine over the centuries. Originally published in 2001, this interdisciplinary volume will be of value to anyone with an interest in the various aspects of Chinese medicine.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… this book is a splendid, diverse collection of innovative research …' EASTMReview of the hardback: 'Innovation in Chinese Medicine is the most significant collection of works in English to date in the study of chinese medical history.' Medical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Elisabeth Hsu; Part I. Mai and Qi in the Western Han: 1. The influence of nurturing life culture on the development of Acumoxa therapy Vivienne Low; 2. Pulse diagnostics in the western Han: how mai and qi determine bing Elisabeth Hsu; Part II. Correlative Cosmologies: 3. Iatromancy, diagnosis, and prognosis in early Chinese medicine Donald Harper; 4. The system of the five circulatory phases and the six seasonal influences, a source of innovation in medicine under the Song (960–1279) Catherine Despeux; Part III. Dietetics and Pharmacotherapy: 5. Dietetics in Tang China: beginnings of a specialised materia dietetica Ute Engelhardt; 6. A Song innovation in pharmacotherapy: some remarks on 'white arsenic' and 'flowers of arsenic' Frederic Obringer; 7. The Bencao gangmu (classified materia medica) of Li Shizhen - an innovation for natural history? Georges Metailie and Elisabeth Hsu; 8. Robust northerners and delicate southerners: the nineteenth-century invention of a southern medical tradition Marta Hanson; Part V. Rise of the Genre of Medical Case Statements: 9. Yi'an (case statements) - the origins of a genre of Chinese medical literature Christopher Cullen; 10. From case-records to case-histories: the modernisation of a Chinese medical genre, 1912–49 Bridie J. Andrews; Part VI. Medical Rationale in the People's Republic: 11 A new, scientific and unified medicine: civil war in China and the new Acumoxa, 1945–9 Kim Taylor; 12. Shaping Chinese medicine: two case studies from contemporary China Volker Scheid.
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