History of medicine Books

Book SynopsisHighly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013The history of health care is complex, confusing, and contested. It involves more than just the creation of hospitals and dispensaries, infirmaries, and health centers. There are also royal colleges, trades unions, medical schools, nurses' homes, coroners' courts, nursing sisterhoods, ambulance stations, patients' organizations, and medical missions.Usually, to enhance our understanding we sit and read books, or, nowadays, surf the Internet. But it's more fun to go out, visit the buildings where events unfolded and transport yourself back in time. The story of how health care has developed from medieval times to the present day is told through seven walks in central London, each with a key theme, such as: Competition between the church, crown, and city for control Changing fortunes of particular districts Radical reform between 1840 and 1880 Individual creativity anTrade Review"An anatomy upon the historical body of London"—Peter Ackroyd"With teasing asides about the scandals and intrigues of London's medical history ... Black reveals little-known aspects of the capital's past in a manner both informative and fun, accessible whether you have a medical background or not. Walks you'll actually want to go on."—Tom Lamont, Editor, Time Out: London for Londoners Table of ContentsThe history of health care. Church, Crown and City - Covent Garden (4.8 km; 2.5 hours). The lost hospitals of St Luke's - St Luke's (3.7 km; 1.5 hours). A cradle of reform - St Pancras & Bloomsbury (3.5 km; 2 hours). The challenging isle - Soho (2.9 km; 1.5 hours). Merge or move - Fitzrovia (4.6 km; 2 hours). From trades to professions - Marylebone (4.5 km; 2 hours). 'Merrie Islington' to 'the contagion of numbers' - Finsbury (2.6 km 1.5 hours) & Islington (3.8 km; 2 hours). Motoring tour: No city is an island - north and east Kent (160 miles; 3 days by car).

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Book SynopsisInjury of the spinal cord has been known since antiquity. There is no cure for the injury and until modern times patients died rapidly from a combination of pressure sores and urinary tract infection. Treatment consists of preventing complications until the spine has stabilised and the patient can be rehabilitated to an independent life. History of the Treatment of Spinal Injuries explores how this treatment developed in the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, in Europe, Great Britain and latterly in the United States. It describes how these principles of treatment were recognised and explores the relationship and rivalry of the powerful personalities of the doctors who developed this treatment against the social background at different times.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "In this book Dr Silver who has devoted his life to the treatment of spinal injuries achieves a unique balance of historical perspective and neurological expertise... Dr Silver worked with Dr Guttmann for four years and so developed the expertise to become the Consultant in charge of the Liverpool Regional Paraplegic Centre... I can commend this book highly both to neurologists and to students of medical history." (From the Foreword by Sir Roger Bannister) "This was a thoroughly good read which I would recommend to anyone with an interest in spinal cord injury."(Lesley Casey, Alexander Harris)"This book deserves a honoured position on the shelf of medical history and will be a stimulus to every doctor who is excited by the challenge of conditions for which no cure is currently available."(M. Laurence, J Bone Joint Surg, 2004;86-B:1091.) "This book deserves a wide readership."(Mr. P. Edmond, J R Coll Surg Edinb Irel 2:3;185-186.) "This book catalogues nonoperative management for spinal injuries from antiquity through the 20th century. The wealth of detail on rehabilitation techniques and practitioners will interest rehabilitation specialists and students of the history of medicine. … By contrast, the best part of the volume will benefit all physicians. The book shows how Sir Ludwig Guttmann created the world’s first comprehensive spine injury center." (Robert M. Crowell, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 293 (12), March, 2005) "This is a history of physiotherapy in addition to a history of the treatment of spinal injuries and is as much about people as procedures. The text is divided up into clearly headed sections, which makes for quick reference and easy reading. It is extensively researched … and is worldwide in its scope." (Laurence Dopson, Physiotherapy, Vol. 91, 2005)Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Historical Survey. 2. The United Kingdom. 3. Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980) And The National Spinal Injuries Centre. 4. United States. 5. Canada. 6. The German-Speaking World. 7. France. 8. Discussion. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Glossary. About The Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, anTrade Review'... richly learned essays ... such a volume is to be welcomed by all of us engaged in the history of the emotions.' Renaissance Quarterly '... a remarkably wide-ranging and insightful volume ... a rich and important contribution not only to debates about the passions and subjectivity, but to the broader fields of early modern ethics, politics, philosophy, and theology.' Renaissance Studies '... well worth consulting for anyone interested in the passions in early modern thought, literature, and history.' ParergonTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhius; Part I Intersubjectivity, Ethics, Agency: Passion and intersubjectivity in early modern literature, Christopher Tilmouth; Affective physics: affectus in Spinoza’s Ethica, Russ Leo; Donne’s passions: emotion, agency and language, Brian Cummings. Part II Embodiment, Cognition, Identity: Melancholy, passions and identity in the Renaissance, Angus Gowland; Montaigne’s soul, Felicity Green; Uncertain knowing, blind vision, and active passivity: subjectivity, sensuality and emotion in Milton’s epistemology, Katharine Fletcher. Part III Politics, Affects, Friendship: Friendship and freedom of speech in the work of Fulke Greville, Freya Sierhuis; A passion for the past: the politics of nostalgia on the early Jacobean stage, Isabel Karremann; ’Not truth but image maketh passion’: Hobbes on instigation and appeasing, Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Part IV Religion, Devotion, Theology: ’A sensible touching, feeling and groping’: metaphor and sensory experience in the English Reformation, Joe Moshenska; ’Tears of passion’ and ’inordinate lamentation’: complicated grief in Donne and Augustine, Katrin Ettenhuber; Passions, politics and subjectivity in Philip Massinger’s The Emperor of the East, Adrian Streete. Part V Philosophy and the Early Modern Passions: The fallacy of ’that within’: Hamlet meets Wittgenstein, Daniella Jancsó; ’The greatest share of endless pain’: the spectral sacramentality of pain in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Björn Quiring; ’Not passion’s slave’: Hamlet, Descartes and the passions, Stephan Laqué; Afterword, Brian Cummings and Freya Sierhuis; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred year period, greatly influenced how those from England’s propertied classes understood and responded to madness. Moreover, the civil law governing the response to madness in England was successfully exported into several of its colonies, including New Jersey. Drawing on a well-preserved and rare collection of trials in lunacy in New Jersey, this book reveals the important ties of civil law, local custom and perceptions of madness in transatlantic perspectives. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in law, medicine, psychiatry and madness studies, as well as contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship.Trade Review'James Moran has provided an important addition to the historiography of psychiatry and mental health provision in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His new book contributes significantly to shifting the historical emphasis away from asylums and towards extra-institutional approaches to the card of the insane.'Social History of Medicine'Madness on Trial, introduces a ‘treasure trove’ of an alternative archive, in the form of documents relating to civil proceedings in lunacy from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Jersey. [it] is a welcome addition to the history of mental illness, and is a very useful and accessible work for anyone interested in mental health law and community or family practices of care.'Journal of The Historical Association'This is an excellent book: it offers a rich and deep inquiry into the legal and transatlantic histories of lunacy across place and space, also illuminating imperial legal practices around insanity. Moran’s original history provides a new set of insights into the interpretation of insanity through laws, the way law was used by different people, and the translation of imperial law into colonial contexts. This has not been achieved for the transatlantic historical site in such a deliberate and detailed way before now [...] Moran’s historical work is innovative. He makes a variety of new statements of method, purpose, evidence, and interpretation in and across legal and asylum histories. This field of madness, insanity, families, and institutions has a deep and sustained readership and continues to garner interest among students and researchers. Moran’s book also traverses multiple fields and readers, and will bring legal-historical methods and ideas to a wider audience.'Canadian Bulletin of Medical History'Madness on Trial thus offers a rich history of lunacy investigation law as well as points to new resources for scholars studying madness, mental health, and civil law in the pre-asylum era.'William J. Ryan, Journal of Early American History -- .Table of ContentsList of tablesAcknowledgments1 Introduction: civil law and madness in transatlantic context2 Suing for a lunatic: lunacy investigation law, 1320-18903 Indefinite mental states: negotiating the legal definition of madness4 Trials of madness: family struggles over property in England5 Care and protection: managing madness in England 6 Atlantic crossing: lunacy law as colonial inheritance7 Family, friends and neighbours: localizing madness in New Jersey8 Asylum in the community: managing madness in New Jersey 9 Orders in lunacy: lunacy investigation law and the asylum reconsidered10 ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe phrase ‘global health’ appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies. In its most visible manifestation, global health refers to strategies addressing major epidemics and endemic conditions through philanthropy, and multilateral, private-public partnerships. This book explores the origins of global health, a new regime of health intervention in countries of the global South born around 1990, examining its assemblages of knowledge, practices and policies.The volume proposes an encompassing view of the transition from international public health to global health, bringing together historians and anthropologists to analyse why new modes of “interventions on the life of others” recently appeared and how they blur the classical divides between North and South. The contributors argue that not only does the global health enterprise signal a significant departure from the postwar targets and modes of operations typical of international public health, but that new configurations of action have moved global health beyond concerns with infectious diseases and state-based programs.The book will appeal to academics, students and health professionals interested in new discussions about the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the "neo-liberal turn" in development practices.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good health and well-being.Table of Contents1 Global health and the new world order: introduction – Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, and Laurent Pordié2 Standardization and localization in tuberculosis control – Nora Engel3 The not so distant past, tuberculosis and the DOTS challenge – Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Christoph Gradmann and Andrew McDowell4 Decolonizing, nationalizing, and globalizing the history of psychiatry: from colonial to cross-cultural psychiatry in Nigeria – Matthew M. Heaton5 ‘Clearing the streets’: enacting human rights in mental health care in Ghana – Ursula Read6 You’ve got the point? Acupuncture and the techno-politics of bodyscape – Wen-Hua Kuo7 Finding the global in the local: constructing population in the search for disease genes – Steve Sturdy8 Rare genetic disease, global health and genomics: the case of R337h in Brazil – Sahra Gibbon9 The World Health Organization’s response to Ebola in historical perspective – Nitsan Chorev10 Epilogue: in search of global health – Didier FassinIndex

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to ‘problem publics’ who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.Table of ContentsIntroduction: publics and their health – historical problems and perspectives – Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth1 ‘Democracy trains its microscope’ on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots – Jennifer Gunn2 ‘Dumping grounds for… human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74 – Michael Lambert 3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany’s AIDS crisis – Johanna Folland4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980–92 – Jane Hand 5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health – Beatrix Hoffman 6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina – Martín Hernán Di MarcoAfterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 – the many publics of modern public health – Tom CrookIndex

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book’s central question is to what extent ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?Table of ContentsForeword by Dagmar SchäferAcknowledgementsIntroduction Michael Stanley-BakerPart I East Asia1 Religion and health care in middle-period ChinaNathan Sivin2 Religion and medicine in pre-modern JapanKatja Triplett3 Female alchemy in late imperial and modern ChinaElena ValussiPart II South Asia4 Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Ramaya?a and the politics of an epic plantAnthony Cerulli5 From ‘medical men’ to ‘local health traditions’: the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in IndiaHelen Lambert6 Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century BengalProjit Bihari Mukharji Part III Himalayas, Southeast Asia7 Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healingGeoffrey Samuel8 Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: Encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic societyConstantin Canavas9 Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary MyanmarCéline CodereyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis 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. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists’ attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.Table of ContentsIntroducing Victorian spectacle wear 1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830–50 2 The ‘normal eye’ as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850–1904 3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851–1904 4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880–1904 5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830–1904 Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisWhen 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 where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something of a paradox is that of mothers and their babies living in this carceral environment. This book looks behind the cell doors of these institutions to illuminate the experiences of this group of prisoners. The management of their health alongside the management of penal discipline posed complex conundrums to the prison system. Although rarely fully considered at policy level, this balancing act was negotiated by those who lived and worked in prisons on a daily basis.Table of ContentsList of figuresPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1 Contesting women’s health in the prison system2 Maternity care in prison3 Mothering in a carceral space4 Born in prison: a heritage of woe? Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLooking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the 20th century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II. Through richly documented case studies across Europe, this book sheds light on marginal experiences and everyday practices. -- .

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Book SynopsisThe research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders.This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from outside of the nation state. The contributors address the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate both in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium.Drawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day.Trade Review'Medicalising Borders makes it abundantly clear that medicine cannot play Pontius Pilatus and wash its hands in innocence.' Leo van Bergen, Leiden University Medical Centre, Medicine, Conflict and Survival -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Medicalising borders – Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul WeindlingPart I: Quarantine1 Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological ‘iron curtain’? – Sabine Jesner2 Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in nineteenth-century Trieste – Urška Bratož3 Uses of quarantine in the nineteenth century until the Crimean War: examples from south-east Europe – Christian Promitzer4 Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions: Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in late nineteenth century – Carlos WatzkaPart II: (Dis)connections – containment5 Lazarettos as border filters: expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800–1870s – John Chircop6 Sealing borders and containing prisoners: from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps – Paul Weindling7 Locating disease: on the coexistence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease – Sarah Green8 Fear and panic at the borders: outbreak anxieties in the United States from the colonies to COVID-19 – Amy Lauren Fairchild, Constance A. Nathanson and Cullen ConwayPart III: Selection9 ‘Suspect’ screening: the limits of Britain’s medicalised borders, 1962–1981 – Roberta Bivins10 A question of hygiene or nationality? Exclusion and non-Jewish labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, 2006–2017 – Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida11 Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism – Sevasti TrubetaIndex

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Book SynopsisSoldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armour and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and crush injuries. These casualties of war during the 500-year period between the ninth and thirteenth centuries in Northern and Western Europe are the focus of Brian Burfield's study, but they represent just a portion of the story -disease, disability, disfigurement, damaged minds all played their roles in this awful reality. Surgical methods are described in the book, as are the fixes for fractured skulls, broken bones and damaged teeth. Disfiguring scars and disabling injuries are examined alongside the contemporary attitudes towards them. Also investigated are illnesses like dysentery and St Anthony's Fire, plus infected wounds which were often more deadly than the weapons of the age. A final chapter on the psychological trauma caused by war is included and contains a significant focus on the world of the Vikings. Brian Burfield's account features many individual cases, extracting their stories of wounds, sickness and death from chronicles, miracle collections, surgeries, government records and other documents. The prose, poetry and literature of the period are also of great value in bringing these cases to life, as is the evidence provided by modern archaeological and historical scholarship.

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Book SynopsisMultidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia. A multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject across more than two thousand years of human history. Following asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2 addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists, the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain. Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Hidden Affliction: Sexually-Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History - Simon Szreter PART 1. THE HIDDEN PITFALLS IN THE EARLY DOCUMENTARY RECORD (The Wrong Kind of) Gonorrhea in Antiquity - Rebecca Flemming "Poxt and Clapt Together": Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern Cases of Venereal Disease - Olivia Weisser PART 2. THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND THE HISTORY OF THE STI MICRO-ORGANISMS Bioarcheological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease - Charlotte Roberts Bioarcheological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease - Rebecca Redfern A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible, Ocular and Invisible, Genital Variants - Ian N. Clarke A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible, Ocular and Invisible, Genital Variants - Hugh R. Taylor Chlamydia: A Disease Without A History - Michael Worboys PART 3. POPULATION DECLINE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Population Decline in Island Melanesia: Aphrodisian Cultural Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Low Fertility - Tim Bayliss-Smith Community Infertility in Papua New Guinea: Uncovering the Role of Gonorrhea - Roy F. Scragg Fertility, STIs and Sexual Behaviour in Early and Mid-Twentieth Century East Africa - Shane Doyle "A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies - Janet McCalman "A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies - Rebecca Kippen PART 4. INFERTILITY AND THE SPECTRE OF VENEREAL DISEASES IN MODERN EUROPE "The Archenemy of Fertility": Gonorrhea and Infertility, Germany 1870-1935 - Christina Benninghaus Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion and Acquired Infertility in France c.1880-1950 - Fabrice Cahen Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion and Acquired Infertility in France c.1880-1950 - Adrien Minard Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? - Simon Szreter Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? - Kevin Schürer List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it attempts to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions: how did Tutankhamun die? How were the Pyramids built? How were mummies made? Leading experts in their fields combine traditional Egyptology and innovative scientific approaches to ancient material. The result is a cutting-edge overview of the discipline, showing how it has developed over the last forty years and yet how many of its big questions remain the same.Trade Review‘It should be on every amateur and professional’s bookshelf, and it is published at an extremely reasonable price in view of the high quality of its academic contents and its production.’ Peter A. Clayton, Ancient Egypt, Vol 17, No. 97, Aug/Sept 2016‘All in all the volume pays a honorific tribute the remarkable legacy of Professor Rosalie David by fully demonstrates the effectiveness of the multidisciplinary collaboration in Egyptology and the importance of adopting an integrative approach to the Egyptian material culture.’Rogério Sousa, Lusitania Sacra (Portugal) -- .Table of ContentsRosalie David: a biographical sketch - Joyce TyldesleyMy first meeting with Rosalie David - Kay HinkleyPart I: Pharaonic sacred landscapes1 Go West: on the ancient means of approach to the Saqqara Necropolis - Aidan Dodson 2 Sacred animal necropolis at North Saqqara: narrative of a ritual landscape - Paul T. Nicholson3 The Manchester 'funeral' ostracon: A sketch of a funerary ritual? - Peter Robinson4 The tomb of the 'Two Brothers' revisited - Steven Snape5 A review of the monuments of Unnefer, High Priest of Osiris at Abydos in the reign of Ramesses II - Angela P. Thomas6 Thoughts on Seth the con-man - Philip Turner7 A Psamtek ushabti and a granite block from Sais (Sa el-Hagar) - Penelope WilsonPart II: Magico-medical practices in ancient Egypt 8 A most uncommon amulet - Carol Andrews9 The sting of the scorpion - Mark Collier10 Magico-medical aspects in the myth of Osiris - Essam el-Saeed11 Trauma care, surgery and remedies in ancient Egypt: a reassessment - Roger Forshaw 12 One and the same? An investigation into the connection between veterinary and medical practice in ancient Egypt - Conni Lord 13 Bread and beer in ancient Egyptian medicine - Ryan Metcalfe14 On the function of 'healing' statues - Campbell Price15 Writings for good health in social context: Middle and New Kingdom comparisons - Stephen Quirke16 Schistosomiasis: ancient and modern. The application of scientific techniques to diagnose the disease - Patricia Rutherford17 An unusual funerary figurine of the early Eighteenth Dynasty - John H. TaylorPart III: Understanding Egyptian mummies18 The biology of ancient Egyptians and Nubians - Don Brothwell19 Further thoughts on Tutankhamun's death and embalming - Robert Connolly and Glenn Godenho20 Proving Herodotus and Diodorus? Head space analysis of 'eau de mummy' using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry - David Counsell21 Science in Egyptology: the scientific study of Egyptian mummies - initial phase 1973-79 - Alan Curry22 Slices of mummy: a thin perspective - John Denton23 Life and death in the desert: a bioarchaeological study of human remains from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt - Tosha Dupras et al.24 An investigation into the evidence of age-related osteoporosis in three Egyptian mummies. - Mervyn Harris25 The Egyptian mummy tissue bank - Patricia Lambert-Zazulak26 The enigma of the Red Shroud Mummies - Robert D. Loynes27 The evolution of imaging ancient Egyptian animal mummies at the University of Manchester, 1972-2014 - Lidija M. McKnight and Stephanie Atherton-Woolham28 'Eaten by Maggots': the sorry tale of Mr Fuller's Coffin - Robert G. MorkotPart IV: Science and experimental approaches in Egyptology29 Scientific studies of Pharaonic remains: Imaging - Judith E. Adams30 Education, innovation and preservation: the lasting legacy of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith - Jenefer Cockitt31 Making an ancient Egyptian contraceptive: Learning from experiment and experience - Rosalind Janssen32 Iron from the sky: the role of meteorite iron in the development of iron-working techniques in ancient Egypt - Diane Johnson and Joyce Tyldesley33 A bag-style tunic found on the Manchester Museum mummy '1770' - Susan Martin34 'Palmiform' columns: an alternative design source - Peter Phillips35 Scientific evaluation of experiments in Egyptian archaeology - Denys A. Stocks36 Snake busters: experiments in fracture patterns of ritual figurines - Kasia Szpakowska and Rich JohnstonIndex

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In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous sufferings and mass death, as well as contributing to the fall of empires and changing the course of history. We also discover how new infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 emerge. Man has struck back at the microbes; antibiotics and new vaccines have saved millions of lives - but the battle with these relentless, silent enemies is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance and extra-terrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity's future exploration of deep space.

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Book SynopsisThis short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these histories? What can these tell us about the challenges and legacies of mental health care across the world today? Offering an intervention into new ways of thinking – and talking – about ‘mad’ history, Catharine Coleborne explores the social and cultural impact of the history of the mad movement, self-help and mental health consumer advocacy from the 1960s inside a longer tradition of ‘writing madness’. Starting with a brief history of the relevance of first-person accounts, then looking at the significance of other ways of representing the psychiatric ‘patient’, ‘survivor’ or ‘consumer’ over time, this book aims to escape from dominant modes of writing about the asylum. Trade Review“An enjoyable read without feeling onerous. It is highly accessible, informative, and most importantly centres the reader within key debates in historical studies of madness. … each chapter is brief, accessible, and clear, and is accompanied by a useful list of suggested readings for the reader who wants to take their study further. … It is an excellent example of historical writing for a general audience, as well as a wonderful resource for historians and students of history.” (Gemma Lucy Smart, Health and History, Vol. 23 (2), 2021)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Why Talk about Madness?.- Chapter 2: Asylum Archives and Cases as Stories.- Chapter 3: The Asylum and its Afterlife.- Chapter 4: Extra-Institutional Care, or Madness Uncontained.- Chapter 5: Talking about Mental Health and the Politics of Madness.- Chapter 6: What’s the Story?.- Appendix 1: Mad Studies Conferences, Symposia and Events, 2014-2019.- Appendix 2: Mad Studies Networks and Social Media.- Index.-

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the evolution in language and the location at which a migrant’s mental suitability was assessed, those with ‘inherent mental defects’ and ‘transient insanity’ gained access to these regions. This book accounts for the increased attempts to medicalise border control in response to the widening scope of terminology used for mental illnesses, disabilities and dysfunctions. Such attempts co-existed with the promotion of these regions as ‘invalids’ paradises’ by governments, shipping companies, and non-asylum doctors. Using a bureaucratic lens, this book exposes these paradoxes, and the failings within these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasian nation-state building exercises.Trade Review“This book adds considerable depth to other histories examining what was a defining era in the creation of Australia’s and NZ’s immigration restrictions. … Kain’s forensic analysis of the ways in which ideas, ideology, ethics, policy and practice intersected in this period is a critical contribution to the history of immigration in both countries, and a welcome addition to the public conversation today on issues of mental health, tolerance towards immigrants and refugees, and the trauma of seeking asylum … .” (Ruth Balint, The Journal of New Zealand Studies, JNZS, Issue 32, June, 2021)“The contemporary politics of border control make this a timely work­­—and in the year of COVID-19 perhaps even more so. This is a valuable study of a little-known administrative practice, a subject that deserves attention alongside more familiar histories of racially based immigration histories.” (Mark Finnane, Health and History, Vol. 22 (2), 2020)“Strength of Kain’s book is its ability to bring out paradoxes and contradictions in colonial immigration policy and practice. … this is a good and accessible history of Australasian colonial border control generally, as well as a major contribution to our understanding of the history of psychiatry and mental health in the Anglosphere.” (Philippa Martyr, Reviews in History, February 21, 2020)Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Populating Australasia with Sound Minds.- Part I: New Zealand.- 3 Nation-Building, Agent Generals and Imported Lunatics, New Zealand, 1870 to 1879.- 4 Imbecile Passengers and Commercial Paradoxes, New Zealand, 1880 to 1898.- 5 Deportation, Domicile and Mental Deficiency, New Zealand, 1899 to 1930.- Part II: The Commonwealth of Australia.- 6. The ‘Insane’ and the White Australia Policy, 1901 to 1912.- 7. Eugenics and Border Control, Australia, 1912 to 1920.- 8 1. Effective Border Machinery, Ineffective Mental Equipment, Australia 1920 to 1930.- 9. Conclusion.-

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand, diagnose, and treat society at large. The book uses a variety of published and unpublished sources to retrace major debates, protagonists, and networks involved in the redrawing of the boundaries of psychiatry’s sphere of authority. The book is based on three interconnected case studies: the overt pathologisation of the 1918/19 revolution led by right-wing German psychiatrists; the project of medical expansionism under the label of ‘applied psychiatry’ in inter-war Vienna; and the attempt to unite and implement different approaches to psychiatric prophylaxis in the movement for mental hygiene. By exploring these histories, the book also sheds light on the emergence of ideas that still shape the field to the present day and shows the close connection between utopian promises and the worst abuses of psychiatry. Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Diagnosing the Revolution.- 3 Applyied Psychiatry in Inter-War Vienna.- 4 Expansionism and Interdisciplinarity: Applied Psychopathology in the Interwar Period.- 5 Psychiatric Prophylaxis and the Emergence of Mental Hygiene.- 6 The Rise and Fall of Mental Hygiene.-

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Book SynopsisThis biography of Dr. Denis Parsons Burkitt, after whom the childhood cancer Burkitt's lymphoma was named, and who was a pioneer of the dietary fiber movement, paints a personal but holistic portrait of both the man and his life's work. Featuring excerpts from Dr. Burkitt's personal diaries, spanning seven decades from his boyhood to just before his passing, and extensive family archives, this book invites readers to follow Burkitt's journey through life and experience his tribulations and successes. Prof. John Cummings was a colleague of Dr. Burkitt and weaves the tale of his life through the lens of family, faith, and science. The journey takes Burkitt from his childhood in Ireland, a country undergoing major social upheaval, through his medical studies in Dublin, to army service in Africa in the midst of WWII and the independence movements that swept the continent in the following years. During his two decades spent in Uganda, working for the Colonial Medical Service, Burkitt made his first major contribution to cancer research - the characterization of Burkitt's lymphoma and its possible viral cause. Following his return to England in 1966, he turned his attention to the cause of ‘Western Diseases’ especially the role of dietary fibre in the prevention of disease and promotion of health. This earned him even wider international recognition and helped to inspire what is a vital field of research today. The book examines Burkitt's personal views of the world around him, including his experiences as a committed evangelical Christian who had been raised an Irish Protestant, and the challenges, both familial and cultural, that this elicited from and towards him and his scientific work. The lymphoma and later the fibre story propelled Denis into an orbit of worldwide travel, fame and many honours. An engaging speaker but man of great humility, always giving the credit for much of what he did to others, he left a legacy of evidence and ideas for the causes of cancer and prevention of disease from which we all now benefit. Table of ContentsDedicationAbbreviationsPreface1. For God, the world and the robin.2. Formative years3. Trinity College Dublin; a new direction4. Learning to be a doctor with a faith5. War changes everything6. Doubts and frustrations 1944-19467. Lira. The start of a great journey8. Mulago 1948 – 1956; A busy surgeon.9. Jaw Tumours, Kilimanjaro and looking down at the world10. It's a Lymphoma11. Establishing ownership of the Lymphoma12. The long safari13. Into orbit14. A cure for Burkitt's Lymphoma15. America16. A virus causing cancer?17. Out of Africa18. 'Time and chance happen to all men'19. In transition to a new theory. 20. A 'flash of understanding'21. The gospel according to Burkitt22. Fibre launched but is controversial.23. ‘Character is more important than cleverness.’24. Man-made Diseases25. Preparing for departureAppendix 1. Curriculum vitae. Appendix 2. Timeline; the life of Denis Parsons Burkitt. Appendix 3. Publications of Burkitt DP. Part 1. Books written or edited by DPB. Part 2. Original papers in scientific journals, chapters in books, symposium proceedings and letters of substance. Part 3. Other writing. Appendix 4. Books and papers about Denis Burkitt and his work, biographical memoires, tributes, principal obituaries. Part 1. Books. Part 2. Papers in medical and scientific journals/chapters in books Part 3. Biographical memoires Part 4. Tributes and other articles Part 5. Principal Obituaries

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives to map and sequence the genomes of various organisms, but also the work of smaller-scale institutions engaged in the mapping and sequencing of yeast, human and pig DNA. In doing so, the authors expand the historiographical lens of genomics from a focus on large-scale projects to other forms of organisation. They show how practices such as genome mapping, sequence assembly and annotation are as essential as DNA sequencing in the history of genomics, and argue that existing depictions of genomics are too closely associated with the Human Genome Project. Exploring the use of genomic tools by biochemists, cell biologists, and medical and agriculturally-oriented geneticists, this book portrays the history of genomics as inseparably entangled with the day-to-day practices and objectives of these communities. The authors also uncover often forgotten actors such as the European Commission, a crucial funder and forger of collaborative networks undertaking genomic projects. In examining historical trajectories across species, communities and projects, the book provides new insights on genomics, its dramatic expansion during the late twentieth-century and its developments in the twenty-first century. Offering the first extensive critical examination of the nature and historicity of reference genomes, this book demonstrates how their affordances and limitations are shaped by the involvement or absence of particular communities in their production. Table of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionPart I. The Diversity of GenomicsChapter 2. Distributed and Concentrated Strategies in the Sequencing of the Yeast GenomeChapter 3. The Human Genome Project(s)Part II. Communities and Reference GenomesChapter 4. The Funnelling Effect of the Sanger InstituteChapter 5. The Pig Community and Their Reference GenomePart III. Contextualising and Enhancing Reference GenomesChapter 6. Making Reference Genomes Useful: AnnotationChapter 7. Improving and Going Beyond Reference GenomesChapter 8. Conclusion

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This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different time periods. Comparing how occupation was used in French and English mental institutions between 1918 and 1939, one hundred years after the heyday of moral therapy, the book is an essential read for those researching the history of mental health and medicine more generally. It provides an overview of the legislation, management structures and financial conditions that affected mental institutions in France and England, and contributed to their differing responses to the new theories of occupational therapy emerging from the USA and Germany during the interwar period.

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Book SynopsisMental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden under a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwi ideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped.Using historic patient records as a starting place, and informed by her own experience of depression, academic Jacqueline Leckie's timely social history of depression in Aotearoa analyses its medical, cultural and social contexts through an historical lens. From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities, this engrossing book interrogates how depression was medicalised and has been treated, and how New Zealanders have lived with it.

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever overview on the topic illness and literature in the Dutch speaking literature from the Middle Ages until the 21th century

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Book SynopsisIn 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of Percy, a bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his age. Yet, in spite of his intelligence, Percy had great difficulty learning to read. Percy was one of the first children to be described as having word-blindness, better known today as dyslexia. In this first comprehensive history of dyslexia Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling chart a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia's current status as the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. In an engaging narrative style, Kirby and Snowling tell the story of dyslexia, examining its origins and revealing the many scientists, teachers, and campaigners who put it on the map. Through this history they explain current debates over the diagnosis of dyslexia and its impact on learning.For those who have lived experience of dyslexia, professionals who have supported them,Trade Review"Kirby and Snowling tackle this issue by broadening the definition of dyslexia, bypassing the either-or binary of medical vs. social models of disability, instead contending that it embraces both. Moreover, they provide a rich historical foundation, recalling when the term dyslexia was coined in the late 19th century in reference to ‘word blindness,’ meaning the inability to recognize words. Not only is dyslexia a learning difficulty that affects fluency in reading and spelling, but it impacts phonological awareness, visual memory, and verbal processing speed across intellectual abilities. This highly readable, fact-filled book will support parents, families, professionals, students, researchers, and those with dyslexia. Recommended, all readers." Choice“This is an enlightening and absorbing introduction to a crucial concept within the history of learning difficulties, charting its origins, pathways, meanings, contestations, successes and, most importantly, the obstructions and challenges it places in the lives of those who experience it.” History of Education“Dyslexic people, including myself, as well as anyone else concerned with the question of how best to comprehend this situated character of reading in literate times will benefit greatly from Dyslexia: A History.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation

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Book SynopsisTells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, this title provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 William A. Douglass Prize for Best Book in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe/American Anthropological Association "A model contribution to this collective effort at understanding and mitigating the world's misery... [This] calm and mighty book is no less than a staccato history of military and civilian suffering since 1914... Splendid."--Fred Inglis, Times Higher Education "A must read for those interested in trauma, this book looks at the ubiquity of trauma and the development of a new vocabulary and discourse of traumatic events."--A.N. Douglas, Choice "[A]s Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman elegantly describe in their new book, ... what has happened is nothing less than a fundamental change in what it means to be 'traumatised'... [M]ental health professionals never seem far away from either challenge or crisis, which is why the work is so demanding but also stimulating and never dull. Much the same is true of Empire of Trauma."--Simon Wessely, British Medical Journal "A model of social inquiry, The Empire of Trauma is a major contribution not only to our understanding of trauma and the nature of victimhood but to our purchase on the times in which we live."--Joseph E. Davis, Canadian Journal of Sociology "This is an unusual book for the psychiatric bookshelf, because the authors seek to stand free of the scientific facts altogether and to ask simply what impact the emergence of the trauma narrative has had upon the world. This, they argue, is the anthropological stance: to ask how ideas emerge in a society and come to be seen as true, and what follows from that truth, without asking whether those ideas are in fact true. Because of this stance, the book will be read as provocative; but it should be read, because the authors have something to say."--Tanya M. Luhrmann, American Journal of Psychiatry "The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood makes a signal contribution to the genre of 'the history of the present'... The detail and finesse with which theory and data are woven together for each case makes this book compelling... [I]ndeed, a splendid achievement."--Veena Das, American Journal of Sociology "[T]his book presents a well-reasoned discourse on the concepts of trauma, trauma-related disorders, treatment and their relationships to social, political and economic considerations. It will appeal to scholars in a number of disciplines including anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, history and sociology."--Shameran Slewa-Younan, MetascienceTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition xi Introduction: A New Language of the Event 1 PART ONE: The Reversing of the Truth 13 CHAPTER ONE: A Dual Genealogy 25 The Significance of a Controversy 27 The Birth of Trauma 30 Labor Laws 34 CHAPTER TWO: The Long Hunt 40 Cowardice or Death 41 The Brutalization of Therapy 43 After the War 50 A French History 54 CHAPTER THREE: The Intimate Confession 58 War Psychoanalysis 59 A Profitable Sickness 64 Victims of the Self 66 The Issue of Survival 70 CHAPTER FOUR: An End to Suspicion 77 Women and Children First 78 The Consecration of the Event 84 The Last Witnesses 88 The Humanity of Criminals 93 PART TWO: The Politics of Reparation 99 CHAPTER FIVE: Psychiatric Victimology 107 Victims' Rights 108 The Resistance of Psychiatry 115 An Ambiguous Origin 119 A Relative Autonomy 124 CHAPTER SIX: Toulouse 128 The Summons to Trauma 130 Emergency Care in Question 135 Inequalities and Exclusions 140 Consolation and Compensation 148 PART THREE: The Politics of Testimony 155 CHAPTER SEVEN: Humanitarian Psychiatry 163 One Origin, Two Accounts 164 In the Beginning Was Humanitarianism 171 On the Margins of War 177 The Frontiers of Humanity 183 CHAPTER EIGHT: Palestine 189 The Need to Testify 192 The Chronicles of Suffering 197 The Equivalence of Victims 203 Histories without a History 209 PART FOUR: The Politics of Proof 217 CHAPTER NINE: The Psychotraumatology of Exile 225 The Immigrant, Between Native and Foreigner 226 The Clinical Practice of Asylum 231 A Change of Paradigm 236 The Evidence of the Body 242 CHAPTER TEN: Asylum 250 The Illegitimate Refugee 252 Recognizing the Sign 258 The Truth of Writing 264 The Meaning of Words 269 CONCLUSION: The Moral Economy of Trauma 275 Bibliography 285 Index of Names 299 Index of Subjects 303

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Book SynopsisPresents investigation attempted into the mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds in Canada during the mid-1990s, showing the effects that the loss of 20 per cent of beds has had on health care across the country.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Serving the Queen; 2 Growing a Culture; 3 Family Medicine; 4 Medical Bills; 5 The Queen Must Die; 6 Social Pathologies; 7 Long Live the Queen; Afterword

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Book SynopsisCanadian soldiers returning home have always been changed by war and peacekeeping, frequently in harmful but unseen ways. The Invisible Injured explores the Canadian military's continuous battle with psychological trauma from 1914 to 2014 to show that while public understanding and sympathy toward affected soldiers has increased, myths and stigmas have remained. Whether diagnosed with shell shock, battle exhaustion, or post-traumatic stress disorder, Canadian troops were at the mercy of a military culture that promoted stoic and manly behaviour while shunning weakness and vulnerability. Those who admitted to mental difficulties were often ostracized, released from the military, and denied a pension. Through interviews with veterans and close examination of accounts and records on the First World War, the Second World War, and post-Cold War peacekeeping missions, Adam Montgomery outlines the intimate links between the military, psychiatrists, politicians, and the Canadian public. He demTrade Review" In writing an excellent work of history, Montgomery has done a public service by connecting developments over more than a century, from the time of shell shock to that of battle exhaustion and then to post-traumatic stress disorder and its Canadian military variant of operational stress injury. It has been said that in the 1990s the Canadian people were at peace but the Canadian forces were at war. The searing Croatia inquiry showed this to be true, and Montgomery has used the moving testimonies given at the inquiry to great advantage. One of the many strengths of this book is that it brings to the fore names that will have a secure place in the annals of Canadian military history - in particular those of Rome o Dallaire, Joe Sharpe, Greg Passey, and Ste phane Grenier." Peter Neary, University of Western Ontario

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Book SynopsisSickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage. England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I. By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea thatmedical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness inthe Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking book highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understoodarea of poor law history. ALISTAIR RITCH was consultant physician in geriatric medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, and senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently honorary research fellow,History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK.Trade ReviewA thoroughly researched book packed full of detail, supported by a plentiful supply of table. * FACHRS NEWSLETTER *A welcome addition both to medical history and to studies of the poor law during the long nineteenth century. * CERCLES *Sickness in the Workhouse is a highly readable book that I found absolutely fascinating. There's no doubt that offering a health service is a complex issue, for medical staff, patients and medical scientists. It seems even more relevant these days as we consider the needs and responsibilities of our National Health Service. -- Sherryl Abrahart * Genealogists Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness From Acute Illness to Chronic Disability Segregating Fever Patients Controlling Disorderly Behavior Day-to-day Doctoring Medical Therapies Poor Law Nursing "Every Care and Kindness": The Standard of Workhouse Medicine Appendix A: Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877-80 and 1894-1911 Appendix B: Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected Weeks, 1851-56 Appendix C: List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham Infirmary in 1896 Appendix D: Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales, 1840-1911 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021. An examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture. Four complete medical collections survive from Anglo-Saxon England. These were first edited by Oswald Cockayne in the nineteenth century and came to be known by the names Bald's Leechbook, Leechbook III, the Lacnunga, and the Old English Pharmacopeia. Together these works represent the earliest complete collections of medical material in a western vernacular language. This book examines these texts as products of a learned literary culture. While earlier scholarship tended to emphasise the relationship of these works to folk belief or popular culture, this study suggests that all four extant collections were probably produced in major ecclesiastical centres. It examines the collections individually, emphasising their differences of content and purpose, while arguing that each consistently displays connections with an elite intellectual culture. The final chapter considers the fundamentally positive depiction of doctors and medicine found within literary and ecclesiastical works from the period and suggests that the high esteem for medicine in literate circles may have favoured the study and translation of medical texts.Trade ReviewKesling occupies the unenviable position of having produced the first monograph on pre-Conquest medical texts since 1993 in a field that has yielded much scholarly work in the twenty-seven years since Cameron's Anglo-Saxon Medicine. She has done a more than admirable job synthesizing scholarship throughout, and her bibliography is excellent. * Journal of British Studies *In her Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, Emily Kesling breaks from this habit of thinking of these manuscripts as a single corpus, and instead focuses on each of the major Anglo-Saxon medieval texts individually. As such, her book should now be considered required reading for anyone researching one of these manuscripts. * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction Bald's Leechbook: A Medical Compendium Elves, the Demonic, and Leechbook III The Lacnunga and Insular Grammatica The Old English Herbarium and the Monastic Reform Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England Appendix A: Bald's Leechbook and its Latin Source Material Appendix B: B.Parallel Passages in the Lacnunga and MS CCCC 41 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLindee's pathbreaking study shows the interdependence of technical and social parameters in contemporary biomedicine.Trade ReviewThese fascinating, well-written stories portray what it is like to work in human or medical genetics, both in the clinic and as a researcher. -- Uta Francke Nature 2006 As difficult as it is to pinpoint the key events in history, Lindee manages this well, singling out and humanising the most important events and players. -- Lindsay Banham Lancet 2006 This history will reward anyone interested in the paths from gene discoveries to cures or the potential for genomic medicine. Science 2006 Captures the complexities of research on genetic disease while prompting us to reconsider the distribution of scientific authority and the dynamics of knowledge production. -- Michael R. Dietrich New England Journal of Medicine 2006 An elegant, accessible, even thrilling book that is itself a moment of historical truth and a must-read. -- Alice Wexler Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2006 An important contribution to our understanding of the making of the future of medicine, not just substantively, but methodologically as well. -- Paolo Palladino Journal of History of Biology 2006 Provocative and thoughtful... An important and interesting exploration of post-World War II genetics and its impact on the current revolution in genetics and biology. -- Michael Yudell Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2006 Lindee argues that the production of scientific knowledge is a community project involving not just researchers, but also research subjects, patients and their families... The resulting insight into the structure and organization of contemporary biomedicine is one of the chief contributions of this original and important new book. -- Diane Paul Medical History 2007 Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine opens up an important area of contemporary biomedicine, the 'genetization' of disease, to historical scrutiny, looking for decisive turning points far beyond the narrow confines of molecular genetics. Written in a highly accessible style, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the making of biomedical knowledge, genetic and otherwise. -- Soraya de Chadarevian Isis 2007 A fascinating and thorough job of summarizing the emergence of human genetics from an almost totally ignored discipline to its current position as one of the most high-profile biomedical and societal endeavors. -- Ronald G. Davidson American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 2006 Thoughtful book... Raises novel issues about the rise of genetic knowledge and formulates questions and strategies that are critical to understanding both the past and future of genetic medicine. -- Stephen Pemberton History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2006 A 'must' for any health library concerned with health history, particularly at the college level. Midwest Book Review 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Babies' Blood: Phenylketonuria and the Rise of Public Health Genetics3. Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Field Work with the Pennsylvania Amish4. Squashed Spiders: Standardizing the Human Chromosomes and Other Unruly Things5. Two Peas in a Pod: Twin Science and the Rise of Human Behavior Genetics6. Jewish Genes: History, Emotion, and Familial Dysautonomia7. ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesBibliographyIndex

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