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Book SynopsisVolume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and cereals. TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

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Book SynopsisVolume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in theBen cao gang museries offers a translation of chapters 1 and 2 and portions of chapter 3. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to introducing the history of materia medica. Chapter 3 is devoted to pharmaceutical drugs for diseases. Chapter 3 is continued, along with chapter 4, in part B of volume I. TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.Table of ContentsContents 1. Prolegomena. 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature. 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu. 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593). 2. Notes on the translation. 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590 4. Detailed survey of contents chapters 1 through 4 5. (Original) Complete Contents, ch. 1 through 52 6. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu, chapters 1 through 3-49

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Book SynopsisVolume VI in theBen cao gang museries offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits. TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past. Table of ContentsContents 1. Prolegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) 2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu , ch. 26 through 33 Vegetables I, Fragrant-Acrid [Items], Chapter 26 Vegetables II, Soft[ing] and Smooth[ing items], Chapter 27 Vegetables III, Melons, Chapter 28 Vegetables IV, Water Vegetables Vegetables V, Mushrooms-Fungi Fruits I, Five Fruits, Chapter 29 Fruits II, Mountain Fruits, Chapter 30 Fruits III, Non-Chinese Fruits, Chapter 31 Fruits IV, Spices, Chapter 32 Fruits V, Melons and Berries Chapter 33 Fruits VI, Water Fruits Appendix

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Book SynopsisVolume VII in theBen cao gang museries offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods. TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.Table of ContentsContents 1. Prolegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) 2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu , ch. 34 through 37 Woods I, Fragrant Woods Group, Chapter 34 Woods II, Tree-size Woods Group, Chapter 35 Woods III, Shrubs Group, Chapter 36 Woods IV, Epiphyte Woods, Chapter 37 Woods V, Densely Growing Woods Group Woods VI, Various Woods Group 5. Weights and measures 5.1 Measures of capacity 5.2 Measures of weight 5.3 Measures of length 5.4 Measures of the size of pills 6. Lists of substances 6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentioned in BCGM ch. 34 - 37 in passing. Herbs with an entry of their own are marked with their entry number 6.2 Substances discussed in chapters 34 - 37 in a separate entry. Listed in alphabetical order of their proper pin yin names with their popular English names where available and references to their entry. 6.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in BCGM ch. 34 - 37 in a separate entry. Listed in alphabetical order, with reference to their entry.

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Book SynopsisThe pioneers of antibiotics and how they transformed treatmentsThe discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics has transformed how bacterial infections are treated. Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics recounts the historical background of antibiotic discoveries, which have resulted in the numerous antibiotics available today. The author discusses the folk medicine remedies once used to treat infections and includes an update on developments in antibiotic research - with highlights on their use in the treatment of cancer and AIDS.Table of ContentsIntroduction; the discovery of penicillin; the development of penicillin; the introduction of penicillin into medicine; penicillin - personalities and conflicts; penicillin after the war; the road to antibiotics; streptomycin and the conquest of tuberculosis; antibiotics galore; lives of the four major antibiotic pioneers; an antibiotic miscellany; some recent developments and future prospects.

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Book SynopsisThis bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women''s history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever-present in humna history and that mnay contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia. In cosidering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationaships on the other.Trade Review"Scholarly, comprehensive, but sprightly and readable ... a major piece of historical reclamation and discovery which will interest socioloists, historians and social anthropologists as well as less specialist readers ... He is mercifully free from the domination of French doctrinaires like M Foucault ... As McLaren shows with a mastery of his material that never palls, there have been attempts at fertility control since the era of the Greek city states. The emphasis he gives to women's experience of contraception, and to women's own efforts at fertillity control before the twentieth century, is particularly sensitive, shrewd and salutary." Nature > "A seasoned and sensitive scholar ... Angus McLaren deserves our thanks for integrating recent scholarship in demographic, family and gender history, to set the politics of procreation within its wider rationales." TLS "... clear and compelling ... strongly challenging the reader's commonsense idea of effective contraception as a product of modern times. McLaren, a Canadian historian, makes excellent use of both primary sources and British and American secondary work as well as his own research". ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'As Many Women are Always Doing, Doctoring Themselves': The Patterning of Fertility in Ancient Greece 2. 'For a Woman Forbids Herself to Conceive and Fights Againt It': Fertility Control in Rome 3. 'Use Which is Against Nature': Abortion and Contraception in the Christian West 4. 'Moore for Delit than World to Multiplye': Procreation in the Middle Ages 5. 'Cheating Nature': Fertility Control in Early Modern Europe 6. 'From 'Moral Restraint' to 'Criminal Propaganda': Neo-Malthusianism and the Fertility Transition 7. 'An Education for Women': The Triumph of Family Planning Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease.Trade ReviewThe Deadly Truth is an intellectually exciting and morally sobering account of the role of disease in the history of the Americas. It reminds us of what health care has contributed to better and healthier lives for Americans, but cautions us against the futility of dreams of a disease-free world. -- Leon Eisenberg, Harvard Medical SchoolOne of the most distinguished American historians of medicine, Grob gives us an overview of disease from pre-colonial times to the present that is fresh, authoritative and accessibly written. Going against half a century of hype about "medical progress," he concludes that we really don't understand why we're living longer, and that great future breakthroughs in dealing with chronic disease are likely to prove elusive. -- Edward Shorter, author of A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of ProzacAmbitious and impressive. Grob has drawn upon work from a half-dozen disciplines to shape what might be called a biocultural history of disease in North America; there is no other book quite like it. -- Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard UniversityA trenchant, thorough and wide-ranging analysis of what we know--and what we still don't know--about the burdens of disease. This book is a good read: provocative, forceful, and consistently interesting. -- Rosemary A. Stevens, author of American Medicine and the Public InterestComing at a moment when society seems intoxicated by the power of new genetic discoveries, Grob has provided a necessary historical perspective that may aid us in developing a more measured set of expectations and more reasonable social policies. -- David Rosner, co-author of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial PollutionThe Deadly Truth is a fascinating narrative history of diseases that have afflicted Americans for four centuries. Every reader, regardless of background, will discover many new data and insights about diseases and humans. This book will be an authoritative point of departure for a host of thoughtful scientists and scholars. -- John C. Burnham, Ohio State UniversityAn erudite, thoroughly researched account of how infectious diseases and chronic illnesses have evolved in America, from pre-Columbian times to the present...A wealth of information for students of American history and the history of medicine. * Kirkus Review *Is it possible to eradicate disease? Grob addresses this question while offering a history of disease in America to illustrate the ongoing relationships among society, environment, and human health. Beginning with evidence from prehistoric skeletal remains and continuing to the present day, Grob demonstrates that disease is a natural part of our existence...Grob provides interesting evidence showing that many diseases were on a decline even before the widespread use of antibiotics. -- Tina Neville * Library Journal *Grob adds valuably to a field that has suffered from unsupported opinions and loose reasoning...His later, careful comparisons of changing relations between rural and urban health conditions constitute an especially successful aspect of the book. His accounts of the health effects of industrialization and westward expansion are clear, and his questioning of accepted wisdom is welcome. -- William Beatty * Booklist *Grob's book is a broad study of American medical history and encompasses more than the story of clinicians, surgeons, patients and pathogens. He surveys subjects such as morbidity and mortality related to malnourishment, accident rates, pollution, vague but burdensome disabilities, and more...Grob is critical of the standard interpretations of American medical history...Grob has provided us with a general medical history of the United States of America, with suitable references to trends overseas, especially in Europe. His book will be the standard work on the subject until a decade or two more, when we non-specialists will need our next fresh interpretation of our fascinating medical selves. -- Alfred W. Crosby * Nature Medicine *The Deadly Truth is in many ways a history of the country itself. Disease has shaped the development of cities, the actions of politicians and even the outcome of wars...[Grob] takes the reader on an exhaustive journey through American history and even American myth. -- Laura Beil * Dallas Morning News *A majestic history of disease in America, beginning in its pre-Columbian past, and ending in the post-Aids era...Grob's analysis is not a pessimistic one, but realistic. He readily charts and salutes the progress made by medical science, less in vanquishing disease than in alleviating its burdens and suffering...It is the assumption that medical progress will eventually eliminate disease altogether that really raises Grob's scholarly eyebrows...Surveying the present, Grob notes the remarkable changes in health that have occurred during his lifetime...Infant mortality continues to decline. The average lifespan continues to increase, forcing us to redefine the concept of "old," as we have recently witnessed with the news that the retirement age for public sector workers is to rise by five years. -- Simon Wessely * The Guardian *Grob's achievement is considerable. He has read and synthesized a massive literature on the social history, demography, and medical and cultural experience of a large country. -- W. F. Bynum * Nature *[Grob's] volume offers the past as a guide to the cultural and biological realms where diseases dwell. If policy makers are astute enough to read this volume, there is possibility that Grob's history can inspire intelligent and measured health care policies…His brush is dipped in the ink of many disciplines and his clear, persuasive prose makes a complicated historical portrait accessible to students and general readers even as he provokes his colleagues to think beyond their own narrow specializations…Grob's synthesis draws on the best research historians of medicine can offer to trace the patterns of disease across American history. Only a veteran scholar of great talent could offer to students and peers such an engaging work of scholarly breadth and humanity. The messenger is faultless, even if his grim message is that the expectation of boundless health and ever-lengthening life is but a fancy fed by the American utopian dream. Grob in no way discounts the urgency of our continual battle against disease, but he reminds us that sickness and mortality are unavoidable and that we must pay equal heed to dealing effectively with pain and disability and devising human strategies for the end of life. -- Alan M. Kraut * Journal of the History of Medicine *At a time when the newly minted world of genes seems to generate a wave of euphoria and unrealistic expectations for long and eventually disease-free human lives, this book attempts to curb such unwarranted optimism…[Gerald Grob] stresses the fact that disease is a natural occurrence shaped within particular time periods and ecological spaces and thus cannot ever be eradicated…Grob has collected in one volume an impressive amount of information about disease patterns and mortality in the United States. His work will be a useful background for future policy makers who must grapple with a new disease ecology shaped by the effects of globalization, significant climate changes, and material affluence. -- Guenter B. Risse * History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences *Gerald Grob has taken on an enormous challenge and accomplished it superbly. In The Deadly Truth he seeks to chart the history of human and social interactions with disease, death and their responses from pre-Columbian times to the present day. He does this with a command of a huge literature of demographic statistics, medical reports and locates them within a social and cultural context that shows both relative and historical value...The book is academic and scholarly, and a major contribution to the literature. -- Mark Welch * Metapsychology Online *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. The Pre-Columbians 2. New Diseases in the Americas 3. Colonies of Sickness 4. The Promise of Enlightened Health 5. Threats to Urban Health 6. Expanding America, Declining Health 7. Threats of Industry 8. Stopping the Spread of Infection 9. The Discovery of Chronic Illness 10. No Final Victory Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and the turmoil in medical education and health care reform as new capacities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. Tilney’s stage is the famous Boston teaching hospital, Brigham and Women's.Trade ReviewDr. Tilney has an eye for fascinating details, shocking stories, and unexpected connections. Invasion of the Body is a riveting account of the astonishing transformation of surgery over the past century. -- Atul Gawande, M.D.With the history of surgery and the surgical profession as his main subjects, Tilney does not hesitate to take readers on numerous side trips that enhance their understanding of the field and illustrate the interrelatedness among the discipline of surgery and the rest of medicine. Touching on everything from sanitation-free barber surgeons to robotics, he discusses the evolving science of surgery, the growth of the profession, the individuals responsible for incremental developments and breakthroughs, the technologies now available, and the directions in which the field might be headed...A very readable book that should prove fascinating to both lay readers and professionals. -- Dick Maxwell * Library Journal *Always entertaining...Dr. Tilney's analysis of surgical developments during his long career--he graduated from medical school in 1962--is little short of brilliant...Dr. Tilney provides full accounts of both the science and practice of cardiac and transplant surgery, with their backgrounds in basic immunology and the technology of the heart-lung machine. He illustrates his narrative with vivid examples of real operations, including some from his own surgical experience...He has a wonderful capacity to describe what surgeons actually do when they are operating, why they do it and why it sometimes ends in failure...Dr. Tilney is concerned, as every American citizen ought to be, with the chaotic state of American health care. His last chapter contains a great deal of wisdom (and documentation) about the problems of spiraling costs, inequality of access and the pernicious ways in which the market drives decisions about how much and what kind of treatment a patient receives...He has made a shrewd diagnosis of the lack of system in American health care, and politicians would do well to take his critique seriously. -- William Bynum * Wall Street Journal *Tumours removed, joints replaced, organs transplanted: every weekday, 85,000 non-emergency operations take place in the United States alone. Distinguished U.S. surgeon Nicholas L. Tilney intersperses moments from his own career with a rousing history of the evolution of surgery, breakthrough by breakthrough--from near-butchery to today's fine-tuned procedures. Wading through the gore with aplomb, he covers anaesthesia, pharmaceuticals, asepsis, health-care reform, surgery in war and in peace, facial transplants and more. * Nature *Readers will come away with a new appreciation of the scalpel-wielding specialists who have paved the way for heart and organ transplants, cancer removal, and plastic surgery. -- Laura Landro * Wall Street Journal *

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Book SynopsisLooking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism.Trade ReviewHerlihy proposed that the Black Death led to "the transformation of the West" and shaped crucial aspects of modern thinking and behavior. Briefly and lucidly, Herlihy argued that Europe was...locked into Malthusian stasis, with a population unable to improve its standard of living and possessed of a set of unchanging and stagnating institutions. The Black Death was to shake Europe out of its immobile lethargy and to initiate processes of renewal...Samuel Cohn's succinct introduction provides an excellent commentary on Herlihy's theses. -- Andrew Wear * Times Literary Supplement *Focusing on the Black Death which reduced the population in some European cities by 80 percent, Herlihy draws some powerful parallels between the plague and AIDS...His argument is a provocative one which will lead other historians to re-examine not only the period of the Black Death but the foundations of medieval and modern medicine. -- Lara Marks * History Today *The essays offer a number of fresh perspectives on the Black Death, the series of plagues that ravaged Europe after 1347. * History *[These] essays redefine the historical study of the Black Death...Herlihy's contention is that we can learn from this 'devastating natural disaster'; for example, parallels can be drawn to today's pandemic of AIDS, especially in the resultant bigotries that both engendered...This book, which opens a new chapter on the history and implications of the plague, is essential for all readers of medieval history. * Library Journal *Herlihy died in 1991, leaving these 1985 lectures among his unpublished papers. In them, he raises questions about the impact of the black death on everyday society, agrarian practices, the use of inventions, travel, and medical theory and practice. Because of their provocative ideas and new ways of looking at older assumptions, they are highly worthy of publication. -- William Beatty * Booklist *Bold, novel theories, sure to be controversial, about the medieval pandemic known as the Black Death...Herlihy revisits much of the conventional wisdom about the demographic, cultural, and even medical impact of the plague...A stimulating discussion of some rarely considered aspects of one of history's turning points. * Kirkus Reviews *[A] fine addition to thinking on the [Black Death] and an example of how good historical thought evolves. * Publishers Weekly *The articles in this collection surprisingly are as fresh today as when they were delivered. David Herlihy utilizes new approaches and new forms of evidence to raise intriguing suggestions concerning the economic, social, and cultural history of European civilization and the borderlines between medieval and modern Europe. Supplemented by Samuel K. Cohn's invaluable introduction, they will stimulate a wealth of new historical investigation. This work can be read with profit by undergraduates, graduate students, and professional historians. -- William M. Bowsky, University of California, Davis, author of A Medieval Italian CommuneLiving in the age of AIDS, Ebola fever, and the prospect of new, lethal diseases, we can surely benefit from the historical perspective David Herlihy provides in this wonderful book on the plague of 1348. Herlihy raises important questions about the exact nature of the disease, and how the economy and society of medieval Europe responded to unprecedented catastrophe. How do people explain the origin and course of a new disease? How do people react when the established institutions of church, state, and science fail to offer acceptable explanations for the occurrence of extraordinary levels of mortality? Herlihy answers these questions and offers fresh insights on an old killer that have a timely meaning for the modern world. Cohn provides a wise, contextual introduction and has skillfully edited these essays, making available once more to old friends and new readers the distinctive style and thoughts of David Herlihy. -- Steven Epstein, University of Colorado at Boulder, author of Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval EuropeThe work of a mature, indeed brilliant, scholar. This is a succinct, lucid, provocative, and very learned treatment of the Black Death in its causes and consequences. -- Thomas Kuehn, author of Law, Family, and WomenTable of ContentsIntroduction Bubonic Plague: Historical Epidemiology and the Medical Problems The New Economic and Demographic System Modes of Thought and Feeling Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink women’s place in the history of medicine.Trade ReviewThis superbly researched and elegantly written study of women’s roles in the pursuit of health in late Renaissance Italy puts women back in the center of medical knowledge and medical practices during a major turning point in European history. -- Judith Brown, author of Immodest ActsBeautifully illuminates the many ways in which women acted as medical agents and became medical artisans in Renaissance Florence and beyond. Strocchia’s deeply researched study reveals how Medici women, controversial saintly healers, nun apothecaries, and hospital nurses in an age of syphilis all participated in a political economy of family, faith, health, and charity. Essential reading for anyone interested in gender and medicine in the early modern era. -- Paula Findlen, author of Possessing NatureImpeccably researched and highly readable, Forgotten Healers is the most comprehensive study of early modern women’s involvement in medicine to date. A remarkable book with fresh perspectives that significantly advances our understanding of the distinctive ways of learning and knowing that characterized the early modern age. -- Sandra Cavallo, coauthor of Healthy Living in Late Renaissance ItalyMakes a vital contribution to the history of medicine, gender studies, and Renaissance studies. With plentiful excursuses throughout that reward curiosity with delightful explanations, and lucid and engaging prose, Strocchia showcases the various roles carried out by women in the provision of health care in early modern Italy. -- Sheila Barker, Director at the Medici Archive ProjectForgotten Healers defines medical work to include the activities of people beyond professional physicians and surgeons. This broader understanding of early modern medical knowledge and practice underwrites Strocchia’s powerful rethinking of early modern medicine, making women and women’s contributions not only integral but central. -- Katharine Park, author of Secrets of WomenOne of the best books on the Italian Renaissance in years—at once insightful, illuminating, wide-ranging, and comprehensive…It is also a pleasure to read. -- Douglas Biow * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *A richly illustrated description of the various ways in which women were involved in medical care within Renaissance Italy…It not only builds upon and expands existing bodies of work in often fascinating ways but also suggests many new directions for research on which future scholars can—and no doubt will—build. -- Neil Tarrant * Canadian Journal of History *Strocchia gives voice to noblewomen, nuns, and nurses engaged in medicine and pharmacy, reconstructing their networks of knowledge and business…A great contribution for all scholars engaging with early modern healing practices and represents a valuable enrichment of our perception of this field. -- Marco Faini * Renaissance and Reformation *A uniquely intimate tactile experience of the day-to-day business of healing and healthcare in Renaissance Italy. Strocchia’s painstaking and creative archival reconstructions of women healers in elite households, convents, and pox hospitals shows the extent to which women were immersed in and helped shape the medical marketplace as suppliers, producers, innovators, and consumers within a changing scientific and technological landscape. -- Elizabeth W. Melllyn * Annals of Science *Argues convincingly for female medical spaces as sites of innovation…Rich and revealing in its detail and astute in its analysis, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in early modern social, medical, and gender history. -- Jane Stevens Crawshaw * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Richly detailed and wide-ranging…Essential reading for [those] who are interested in medical care in early modern cities, the role of women as healers in early modern Italy, and the convent as a site of knowledge and sociability in urban environments. -- Bradford Bouley * Early Modern Women *Excellent…Reveal[s] the pervasive presence and agency of women in health care throughout late Renaissance Florence…A fascinating and extremely readable account of women in early modern health care, which also stands as testament to what a rich and cohesive field the study of women and health care has now become. -- Tessa Storey * Nuncius *Based on extensive archival research and a wide reading of secondary literature, this clearly written book demonstrates that women played a large role in Italian Renaissance health care. * Choice *An expansive history that integrates gender, economics, and health…This book helps us to see and hear the work of women as they engaged in health care in late Renaissance Italy. -- Cynthia Klestinec * Metascience *An influential, insightful, and, indeed, formidable book that dispels one more time the notion that women, educated or not, were marginal to the medical, economic, social, and political economy of their time. Forgotten Healers is not simply a recuperation of women’s various work, mostly unpaid, in convents and hospitals in Renaissance Tuscany but a powerful reconstruction…of the many ways women—noblewomen, nuns, laywomen, and orphans—were fully functional members of the social fabric of their time. -- Valeria Finucci * Journal of Modern History *

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Book SynopsisAmid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics as a response to their colonial condition, nonterritoriality, and exclusion from looming postimperial modernity. Marina Mogilner explores this story in the context of Russia's turbulent early twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis is an important, provocative work that should be read by anyone interested in the history of race in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. -- Andrew Sloin * Russian Review *Mogilner makes a tremendous contribution to the understanding of the ‘Jewish Question’ in the nineteenth century in this thoroughly researched and fluidly written volume. -- Leora Eisenberg * EuropeNow *A brilliant work of intellectual and cultural history. Drawing on an impressive range of sources, Mogilner argues that the language of race science—and the embrace of biopolitics by Jewish social scientists—possessed powerful exclusionary potential, even as it was used to study, improve, and protect the population of Russian Jews. I have no doubt A Race for the Future will become the standard book on the subject for many years to come. -- Eugene M. Avrutin, author of Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to PutinA gripping story of the power of ‘racial science’ as a paradigm of global modernity, its emancipatory attractions to educated Russian Jews, and the assimilative impetus of the Russian empire that made Jewish self-racialization, oddly, an anticolonial gesture. A brilliant and erudite scholar, Mogilner endows this mind-bending story with a deep appreciation of its historical actors’ diverse intellectual trajectories, motivations, and political entanglements. This groundbreaking book sparkles with insights into Russia’s unique imperial predicaments. -- Edyta M. Bojanowska, author of A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate PalladaBold and highly original. Challenging the entrenched misconception that race was peripheral to group identity in imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union, Mogilner shows how Jewish self-racialization was paradoxically a project of anticolonial resistance. With its clear and engaging prose, this will be a crucial reference for historians of empire—or anyone interested in how subaltern actors exercise agency within a colonial setting. -- Vera Tolz, author of Russia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

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Book SynopsisObesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy.Trade ReviewThe goal of this book is not to offer answers, but to explain how we as a society ended up where we are. There were critical moments in the history of childhood obesity where leaders, whether medical, educational, political or otherwise, could have taken one path or another. Dawes traces the history that led to each crossroad and the implications of the path that our leaders have chosen at each of these crossroads. Given the epidemic levels of obesity in the U.S., the topic has become popular in the media, leading to enormous numbers of articles, books, TV reports, and so on. Many of these accounts come from individuals with a vested interest in swaying readers’ beliefs about the causes of the issue and how to best resolve it. This book offers something different. It places many of the issues that we face as a country into a historical context to help readers understand the current state of childhood obesity. Dawes has done her job very well. The ball is now in our court. -- Lisa Auster-Gussman * Books & Culture *Through anecdotes and an overview of social trends, [Dawes] provides the historical context for our fixation [on childhood obesity], revealing shifting cultural perceptions, medical pre-occupations, scientific advances and economic forces linked to the phenomenon. By clarifying where we have been, Dawes aims to guide us forward… Perhaps health professionals’ efforts to contain, control, prevent and reverse childhood obesity have been constrained by a failure to see and consider the full scope of the threat and the best defenses—that is, by the focus on one idea at a time. Dawes replaces such parochial perspectives with a window 100 years wide. May it help show us the way. -- David Katz * Nature *Dawes, a historian of medicine, dutifully catalogues society’s stumbling attempts to understand and deal with this subject over the past century. She reviews many failed attempts to keep childhood obesity in check, from the ‘endocrine vogue of the 1920s to the 1940s’ to diet drugs, bariatric surgery, and the leptin gene craze. Advertising geared toward making bad foods attractive to kids has been rampant and governments have done a poor job controlling it… Dawes ably demonstrates that any solutions will likely be as multifaceted as the problem. * Publishers Weekly *With vivid prose, memorable examples, and an impressive depth of research, Laura Dawes demonstrates how and why our current preoccupation with childhood obesity emerged. This book is a genuine contribution not only to historical understanding, but to the field of medical ethics and to contemporary policy debates. -- Steven Mintz, University of Texas at AustinChildhood Obesity in America is timely and compelling. This thoughtful book reveals a great deal about the place of the child in American history, the intensity of the search for the normal body, and the overwhelming importance of aesthetic criteria in understanding the best size of the child. -- Susan Lederer, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Book SynopsisRey draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore a universally shared experience. From antiquity to the 20th century, she contrasts the different cultural perceptions of pain in each period, as well as the medical theories advanced to explain its mechanisms, and the various therapeutic remedies formulated to relieve those suffering from it.Trade ReviewAn intriguing analysis of the evolving influences of society and culture on pain thresholds throughout the ages. * New Scientist *This is an interesting and important study. The translation has been well done. -- Anthony Campbell * Journal of Consciousness Studies [UK] *We know quite a bit about the development of certain pain relievers and have often heard the story of anaesthesia...but we know much less of the broader cultural history of pain. This historical gap is addressed by this splendid book...Dr. Rey has used pain as a key medical, biological, cultural and philosophical theme; she has fashioned a history of medicine around the concept of pain...She has undertaken a large task and carried it out with great success. To capture as much of our changing views of such a large topic as she has managed to do in a 350-page book is a considerable feat. -- Gert H. Brieger * Nature Medicine *Roselyne Rey presents a detailed history of the medical treatment of pain from Antiquity to the 1950s. In brief sections on Egyptian, Greek, and Roman medical practice, on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, on the 'Classical Age' and the Enlightenment, the author runs through some 3,000 years of medical history, demonstrating the very ambiguous and frequently ambivalent attitude towards suffering held by medical parctitioners. -- Tim Hitchcock * Social History of Medicine *In this erudite and broadly conceived work, Rey discusses the social construction of pain in Western history from antiquity to modern times. -- Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of MedicineIn this erudite and broadly conceived work, Rey discusses the social construction of pain in Western history from antiquity to modern times. * Choice *An elegant treatment of the history of pain...readable and fascinating... I know of nothing comparable. -- John C. Liebeskind, Founding President, International Pain Foundation, and Past President, American Pain SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Antiquity The Middle Ages and Pain: A World to Investigate Pain in the Renaissance Pain in the Classical Age Pain in the Age of Enlightenment The 19th Century: The Great Discoveries Communication Strategies: The Approach to Pain during the First Half of the 20th Century Conclusion A Modern View J. Cambier Notes Selected Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThere have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. Howard Frazier and Frederick Mosteller, leading figures in the field of medical technology assessment, attempt to distill the methods and knowledge base of their highly specialized discipline, with particular reference to medical innovations.Trade ReviewIn Medicine Worth Paying For, the editors…begin by asking ‘How is medicine doing?’ Many of the 14 case studies included suggest a qualified positive assessment… This book is far more than a round of applause for medical advances that have been proven to yield health benefits. The editors criticize the methods by which medical interventions are studied, or, not studied… The editors…[have] distinguished backgrounds in technology assessment…[and] the text itself is highly readable, and sufficiently accessible so that lay readers will find it readily comprehensible. -- Thomas H. Lee * Nature Medicine *[T]his book would be valuable for many audiences, especially for policymakers, because it identifies most of the serious deficiencies in the American health care delivery system and suggests remedial steps that are endorsed by virtually all serious scholars of the problems this nation faces on the scientific side of health care. Health professionals and medical and nursing students, as well as lay readers, should find this book very informative in helping them to understand the issues in present-day health care delivery in the United States. -- Seymour Perry, M.D. * Academic Medicine *This book is grounded in solid reviews of clinical studies, shows awareness of the economic consequences of alternative interventions, and is sensitive to the social and psychological factors that affect the well being of patients. It deserves a wide audience among physicians, other health professionals, and all those responsible for public and private health policy decisions. -- Victor R. Fuchs, Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor, Emeritus, Stanford UniversityThis book is must reading for anyone interested in the role of new technologies in medicine. Two eminent scholars, Professors Frazier and Mosteller, and their colleagues discuss examples of specific new technologies—how they are evaluated, how they are accepted in the market place, and how their impact on the cost and the quality of medical care is evaluated. As the United States and most Western nations struggle with the challenges of containing the rise in the costs of care, while preserving and enhancing the quality of care, the lessons taught in this book will be instructive and sometimes sobering. -- Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., Director, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, BostonTable of ContentsPart 1 Background: the nature of inquiry, Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller; evaluating medical technologies, Frederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier. Part 2 Physician performance: laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones, Leon D. Goldman; preserving vision in diabetic retinopathy - the impact of laser treatment, Michael R. Albert and Daniel M. Albert; the treatment of unipolar depression, Howard S. Frazier. Part 3 Perverse financial incentives: kidney transplantation, Miriam E. Adams; epoetin therapy for renal anemia - health policy and quality-of-life perspectives, Jennifer F. Taylor. Part 4 Patient empowerment: the control of postoperative pain, Jane C. Ballantyne et al. Part 5 Monitoring and delivering care: immunization against measles, Donald N. Medearis, Jr; treatment of hypertension, Sidney Klawansky. Part 6 The delivery of routine care - visual and dental health: the contributions of lenses to visual health, Georgianna Marks et al; dentistry, Alexia Antczak-Bouckoms and J.F.C. Tulloch. Part 7 Quality of life and cost-effectiveness: total joint replacement for the treatment of osteoarthritis, Jennifer F. Taylor and Elisabeth Burdick. Part 8 Unanticipated effects of treatment: peptic ulcer, Thomas C. Chalmers; oral contraceptives - post-marketing surveillance and rare, late complications of drugs, Howard S. Frazier and Graham A. Colditz. Part 9 Administrative innovations: surgery and anesthesiology, Debra R. Milamed and John Hedley-Whyte. Part 10 Conclusions and recommendations: improving the health care system, Frederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier; innovation-specific improvements, Frederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier; recommendations for change, Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller.

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Book SynopsisUsing four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.Trade ReviewA complex and nuanced interpretation of the rise of medical science in late Renaissance Italy. Finucci uses the life and experiences of Vincenzo Gonzaga as a connecting thread to allow her to weave together histories of early modern medicine, sexuality, and culture. In four elegantly written chapters, she explores how the drive toward pleasure, beauty, and perfection, as well as the desire for collecting and understanding the new and the ‘exotic,’ inspired both famous and lesser-known doctors, academics, pharmacists, and nobles to explore the body and search for new knowledge. -- Giovanna Benadusi, author of A Provincial Elite in Early Modern TuscanyIt is no longer news that the body has a history. What Finucci offers, however, in this fascinating account of one prince’s body and its diseases, is a revealing microhistory of the noted early modern Italian would-be warrior, lover, and obsessive collector Vincenzo Gonzaga. Chronicling his exploits and his suffering, his illnesses and his diseases, Finucci opens a window on a physical and mental world that is both almost forgotten and yet somehow still with us. Informed by theory, not driven by it, this is a book than swings from the arcane to the profound and to the quotidian with the sure hand of a master storyteller and scholar. -- Guido Ruggiero, author of The Renaissance in Italy

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Book SynopsisAntibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Superbugs describes this growing global threat, the systematic failures that have led to it, and solutions that governments, industries, and public health specialists can adopt.Trade Review[L]ucid and thoughtful… Superbugs provides a set of policy prescriptions, framed in pragmatic terms meant to motivate self-interested politicians. -- Jerome Groopman * New York Review of Books *An immensely readable description of the challenges that encourage overuse of antibiotics and discourage new drug development…Superbugs is a worthy exposition of the challenges we will have to surmount to incentivize more responsible antibiotic use until we discover new ways of dealing with infections. -- Ramanan Laxminarayan * Science *As antibiotics become increasingly ineffective, modern medicine faces a global threat. Can we do anything to stop it? That’s the question posed by the book Superbugs: An Arms Race against Bacteria. [The] authors look at the rise of drug resistance, and their research is sobering. * Late Night Live (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) *Excellent. * Choice *Jim O’Neill helped take the issue of antimicrobial resistance from the science lab to the global stage. He and coauthors Anthony McDonnell and William Hall impart a compelling story about the battle against what could become a mass killer of humanity. -- David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomAddressing antimicrobial resistance requires the kind of thoughtful yet action-oriented analysis that this vitally important book provides. The messages in Superbugs should be heeded by individuals, government officials, and policymakers around the world. -- Larry Summers, former director of the White House National Economic CouncilWith superb insight into one of the greatest health threats to humankind, Superbugs highlights the need for an integrated, multifaceted approach to treating drug-resistant infections. This riveting book makes a compelling case for action. -- Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest discoveries in virology, microbiology and immunology, this study depicts the AIDS epidemic not as an isolated incident, but rather as part of the co-existence of humans and viruses. It was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society.Trade ReviewWinner of the George Sarton Medal, History of Science Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991 "Is AIDS a new disease or not? Yes and no, says Mirko Grmek in his subtle, intelligent book... [This] compact history is a refreshingly fair account by a first-class mind with no axes to grind."--Erik Eckholm, The New York Times Book Review "Grmek has succeeded in writing what may well be the best AIDS book to date."--Laurie Garrett, The Los Angeles Times Book Review "A masterpiece of historical analysis."--Elizabeth M. Whelan, Washington Times "An important and provocative book... Anyone concerned with the origins of the epidemic and the history of HIV will want to come to terms with [Grmek's] analysis."--Elizabeth Fee, Science "Even those who have devoured the literature on AIDS will find this a deeply stimulating book."--The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisAttributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book explains that as the influence of clergymen waned, and as reliance on medical technology increased, patients' trust in doctors steadily declined.Trade Review"Imber offers a well-researched, insightful work on the role of trust in American medicine, and how social changes altered both doctors' and patients' understanding of the role of the physician from the late 19th century to the present. Imber's relentless focus on the issue of trust differentiates his work from other histories of medicine and doctoring in America... Overall, this is an important book on medicine, doctor-patient relationships, and the historical progress of medical ethics."--A.W. Klink, Choice "Trusting Doctors can strongly be recommended as a reference text for all teachers in the sociology and bio ethical fields and should be referred to by those who determine and regularly change the content of Medical School teaching."--Sam Mellick, CBE, Supreme Court Library Review of Books "Imber offers a thought-provoking entry into the history of bioethics, a history which continues to unfold."--Susan E. Lederer, Social History of Medicine "Imber is at his best ... when he presents his views on religion and the origins of American medical professionalism. With erudition, he draws on archival material drawn from the writings and preaching of American clergy in the 19th and early 20th centuries."--Joseph J. Fins, Journal of the American Medical Association "Trusting Doctors is an original and important analysis of the decline of doctors' moral authority and a subtle, sociologically informed critique of contemporary medical bioethics."--Robert Zussman, American Journal of Sociology "I learned a great deal from reading this book... The book is exceedingly well documented, the notes are very illuminating, and I've already bought or downloaded a number of Imber's sources for further reading. Anyone interested in medical ethics, medical sociology, or the history of medicine will find this book a very worthwhile read."--Daniel P. Sulmasy, New AtlantisTable of ContentsPreface: A Sociological Perspective xi Introduction xvii Part One: Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine Chapter 1: Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism 3 Chapter 2: The Infl uence of Catholic Perspectives 22 Chapter 3: The Scientifi c Challenge to Faith 43 Chapter 4: Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine 65 Part Two: Beyond the Golden Age of Trust in Medicine Chapter 5: The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine 107 Chapter 6: The Evolution of Bioethics 130 Chapter 7: Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology 144 Chapter 8: Trust and Mortality 167 Acknowledgments 197 Appendix 1: Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen 201 Appendix 2: Philadelphia Medical Sermons 208 Appendix 3: Long Island College Hospital Commencements, 1860-1899 210 Notes 213 Index 265

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Book SynopsisEighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions.Trade Review"[A]n ingenious accommodation of Freud and Foucault's disparate positions... reviving investigation of hysteria for the new decade."--George Rousseau, Times Literary Supplement "Jan Goldstein ... has uncovered a remarkable manuscript."--Robert Shilkret, PsycCRITIQUES "This is a remarkable piece of analysis in which we learn not only of how a semi-literate peasant girl experienced her nineteenth-century world, but where the reader also experiences how the historian was approached and handled her material. It serves as an inspiring exercise in historical methodology and analysis... Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy is informative on many levels, and provides a coherent narrative that encapsulates various facets of the life of a girl suffering from mental illness in nineteenth-century Savoy."--Ian Miller, Canadian Journal of History "Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy is an interesting case study, containing particularly rich and stimulating analysis."--Jacqueune Carroy, Journal of BJHS "Richly detailed and engagingly presented, this study is an important addition to the growing body of work examining medical perspectives on the condition of women and gender relations in the nineteenth century."--Louise Lyle, French Studies "[C]oncise and fascinating."--Sarah Maza, Journal of Modern History "Jan Goldstein has brought to bear her formidable talents as a cultural and intellectual historian in an examination that is always subtle and suggestive... It is a beautifully written and thoughtful book--there are, for example, delightful passages on her personal experiences and procedures as an historian--and superbly produced by Princeton University Press."--Peter McPhee, Metascience "Its insights invite readers to reconsider their own views of psychosomatic illness, as well as to revisit the much-studied subject of hysteria in new terms. The book is written in a clear, concise, and elegant style; it is an admirable and original example of a multi-layered microhistory, one that extends the reader's understanding of the much wider social history forming and informing Nanette's individual case."--Cristina Mazzoni, Nineteenth-Century French Studies "The assets of the work are numerous and Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux succeeds on a number of critical fronts. The usefulness of the text is beyond question in terms of the content and it represents some exemplary methodological moves that would helpfully instruct those new to archival work and inspire those familiar with such methods but new to medical history. All in all, the work is commendable, smart, and deserves recognition for its many strengths."--Alina Bennett, Foucault Studies "[A]bsorbing and well-written... This is a wonderfully thoughtful contribution to the history of medicine."--Peter Cryle, French HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Part One: HYSTERIA COMPLICATED BY ECSTASY Sexuality, Time, and Commodities in the Malady of Nanette Leroux Chapter 1: PRELIMINARIES 3 The Authors of the Case: An Inbuilt Polyphony 6 The Plot Summary 11 Chapter 2: CONTEXTS 18 Contexts: What They Do for the Reader, and How Many Are Enough 18 Savoy: Old Regime, Revolution, and Piedmontese Restoration 20 The Spa: A Characteristically Nineteenth-Century Setting 35 Commodities and Consumer Culture 42 Diagnostics: Catalepsy and Hysteria circa 1820 46 Medicine and Science as Public Spectacle 56 The Local Scientifi c Public Sphere 64 Scientifi c Networks, or How Despine Found Bertrand 65 Religion in Savoy and in the Leroux Case 69 Defi ant Women: Despine's Chagrins Domestiques 73 Chapter 3: MAKING SENSE OF THE CASE 83 The Authors' Understanding of the Case 83 A Twenty-First-Century Interpretation of the Case 94 Chapter 4: TEXTUAL MATTERS 128 Nanette Leroux or "Nanette Leroux": The Issue of Pseudonyms 128 Palimpsest and Polyphony: The State of the Manuscript 129 Choosing a Text for Translation 133 Part Two: THE TEXT OF THE CASE HISTORY OBSERVATIONS OF NANETTE LEROUX Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy 137 Appendix On the Compatibility of Foucauldian and Freudian Approaches 201 Notes 205 Index 239

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies""An entirely novel approach to a known topic. . . . Read this book with interest and pleasure to begin to appreciate the development of a complex nation over two thousand years of conquering, and being conquered by, people of diverse faiths and national structures."---Tony Dayan, British Society for the History of Medicine"He Bian ingeniously uses conventional historical sources to uncover the hidden story of nonelite knowing of material remedies."---Xiaomeng Liu, Exchange

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'.Trade Review"A fascinating and nearly exhaustive overview of the traditional concepts of hygiene and dietetics from ancient times through to the nineteenth century." Social History of Medicine "The thematic and chronological scope of Wellbeing is ambitious; yet it is surprisingly readable, a testament to both its author and translator. The arrangement of chapters, clear index and thoughtful introduction draw in the reader and the comprehensive referencing provides a wealth of additional material without interrupting the flow of the text." History "In this scholarly, authoritative, and well-referenced monograph, Bergdolt presents the chronological development of many aspects related to well-being, including diet, cleanliness, exercise/sport, spirituality, and psychology, as well as healing (by useful and dubious means) ... Highly recommended for lower-level undergraduates and above and general readers." Choice "Klaus Bergoldt's masterly contribution to the bibliography of health has been a long time coming, but is no less welcome for that ... Bergdolt has achieved a heroic internal synthesis of the health genre."Medical History "This book is ... absolutely central to what traditionally constituted the mainstream of medicine, and Bergdolt handles his subject matter with clarity, skill and erudition." Roy PorterTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Prologue: The Ancient Advanced Civilizations – Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia 7 1 Greece 14 The ideal of health in ancient Greece 14 The Presocratics 19 The Hippocratic corpus 24 Diocles of Carystus, a fourth-century health pedagogue 30 ‘Knidic’ dietetics 33 Health in Plato and Aristotle 37 Dietetics in Alexandria 44 Cures and miracles, Aesculapius and Hygieia 46 Public health care and sport 53 Early Stoics and Cynics 56 2 Rome 62 People and literati: dietetics in ancient Rome 62 New doctors, new theories 73 Sport and baths 77 The sacred tales of Publius Aelius Aristides 79 The Roman Stoics: Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus 82 Galen 87 3 Jewish and Early Christian Traditions 94 Jewish doctrines of health 94 Christus medicus 98 Early Christian doctrines of health 103 4 Medieval Traditions in the East and West 109 Jealing and health in early monasticism 109 The first German pharmacopoeia 113 Dietetics in Islam 116 Medieval doctrines of health in the West 124 Asceticism and mysticism – feasts and beauty care 131 Western and Eastern clerical scholars: Maimonides, Petrus, Hispanus, Roger Bacon 137 Hildegard of Bingen 146 Saints and miracle workers 149 The power of the stars 154 5 Doctrines of Health in the Renaissance 158 Petrarch’s conception of health 158 Alberti and other intellectuals around 1500 161 House books and manuals – health and literature 168 Further humanists – Platina, More, Luther 173 Philosophy of health and prophylaxis in Venice – Mercuriale, Rangone, Cornaro 179 Gabriele Zerbi and the Gerontocomia 185 Paracelsus’ teachings on health 187 Herbal books 191 Dietetics in daily life 194 6 Dietetics in the Seventeenth Century 199 Cartesianism and conservative tendencies 199 Van Helmont, Sylvius and other ‘iatrochemists’ 208 Doctrines of health in England – the dietetics of the state 210 Health through planning – the utopias 216 The dietetics of the Enlightenment – philosophers, pedagogues, charlatans 220 7 Doctrines of Health in the Eighteenth Century 226 Medical theories of health 226 The French Enlightenment and Rousseau 233 Tissot, Triller, Mai: health education at grassroots 239 Public health care 247 8 Around 1800 251 The notion of ‘Lebenskraft’ (vital force) – Hufeland and Kant 251 The recurrent topic of a dietetic regime for intellectuals 255 Alternative paths to health 258 Goethe 263 Romantic medicine – Schelling, Carus, Novalis 266 9 The Nineteenth Century 274 Trends in the nineteenth century 274 Rudolf Virchow and the dietetics of reason 276 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and the philosophical critique of positivism 280 The revolution in nutrition and alternative paths to health 283 Afterword 287 Notes 289 References 327 Index 348

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Book SynopsisThis path--breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different traditions, images, metaphors and ideas that have survived through time and describes how sensual impressions change the way in which we experience the world.Trade Review'Jutte’s ambitious yet accessible book offers a lucid and judicious summary of research in this new and expanding field, as well as making a contribution of its own, distinguishing three periods in the history of the senses and offering intelligent speculations about future developments.' Peter Burke, Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge 'Stimulating and impressive... In this pioneering study Jutte unfolds a panorama of how societies have been fascinated or unsettled by any of the five senses, and invites the reader to respond with curiosity, humour and profound interest to follow through his discussion from antiquity to visions of the future.' Dr Ulinka Rublack, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Tuning Up Conspicuous Manifestations - (Un-)Timely Reflections. Part I Senses and Historicity. 1. Approaching the Superhistorical. Part II The Traditional Order of the Sense: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Era. 2.Conceptions: The Sensorium. 3.Classifications: The Hierarchy of the Senses. 4. Representations: Allegories. 5. Practices: The Senses and their Ailments. Part III From the World of the Senses to the World of Reason. (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries). 6. Philosophical Sensualism in the Age of Sensibility. 7.The Senses and Aesthetics. 8. The Education of the Senses. 9. The Transformation of the Senses by Industrialization and Technology. 10. Experimental Physiology and the Separation of the Senses. Part IV The 'Rediscovery' of the Senses in the Twentieth Century. 11. Touching - or The New Pleasure in the Body. 12. Tasting - or What do Fast Food and Nouvelle Cuisine Share in Common?. 13. Scenting - or From Deodorization to Reodorization. 14. Listening Effects - or The Art and Power of Noise. 15. Ways of Seeing -or The Human Rights of the Eye. 16. Psi-Phenomena - or The Exploration of Extra-Sensory Perception. Outlook. 17. Cyberspace and the Future of the Senses. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisThe untold story of early-twentieth-century women's role in developing an essential area of health care

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.Trade Review"Hernández Sáenz knows her subject extremely well and has assembled a rich and thorough analysis of the different dimensions of medical professionalization in Mexico." Adam Warren, University of Washington and author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms"This welcome contribution to the history of medicine offers a detailed examination of the trajectories of licensed medical practitioners and their efforts to acquire professional, social, and scientific recognition between the 1800s and the 1870s. Hernández Sáenz challenges the traditional and linear interpretations that have characterized the history of medical professionalization in Mexico and offers a novel understanding of both medical and Mexican history during an era that had seldom been the focus of a coherent and encompassing investigation." Journal of the History of Medicine"Hernández Sáenz's story is not merely a Mexican history of medicine. It is a medical history of Mexico, a story about how medicine -- in carefully building its nest -- helped create moden Mexico itself." Social History of Medicine

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Book SynopsisIn China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex.In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and political conflict affected local intoxicant industries. These industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century, even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement raged. Through the lens of popular Chinese media depictions of alcohol and opium, Smith analyzes how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in their portrayal, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Alcohol and Opium in China2 Manchurian Context3 Evaluating Alcohol4 Selling Alcohol, Selling Modernity5 Writing Intoxicant Consumption6 The Hostess Scare7 Reasoning Addiction, Taking the Cures8 The Opium Monopoly’s “Interesting Discussion”ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA history of the convergence of Western and Chinese medical practices in modern China.Trade Review"The great merit of this book is that Andrews not only has extensively researched her topic, working with a broad range of primary and secondary sources, but also reads her materials critically." -- Eric I. Karchmer * Asian Medicine *[The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960] present[s] a number of astute insights that promise to remain authoritative in the field for years to come … Andrews’s discussion of the advent of scientific acupuncture provides a sorely needed historical explanation for its contemporary survival and popularity. -- Howard Chiang * Journal of the History of Medicine *Table of Contents1 Modernities and Medicines2 The Spectrum of Chinese Healing Practices3 Missionary Medicine from the West4 The Significance of Medical Reforms in Japan5 Public Health and State-Building6 Medical Lives7 New Medical Institutions8 From New Theories to New Practices9 Conclusions: Medicine and Modernity with David L. SchwarzkopfNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1955, the controversial and innovative sexologist John Money first used the term gender in a way that we all now take for granted: to describe a human characteristic. Money's work broke new ground and gave currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. As an ardent advocate for sexual liberation, he became something of a fixture in the popular imagination.This book cuts through Money's talent for polemic and self-promotion by digging into the substance of Money's theories and achievements. It offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of this pioneering scholar's writing to assess Money's profound impact on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Through his analysis, Goldie recovers Money's brilliance and insight from simplistic dismissals of his work due to his involvement in the tragic David Reimer case, while never losing sight of his flaws.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sexual Behaviour in the Human1 Once a Brethren Boy: The Early Years2 Fixing Sex: Intersex3 Lovemaps: The Relationship World4 Man/Woman, Boy/Girl: Transsexuality5 Gay, Straight, and In-Between: Homosexuality6 The Edge of the Alphabet: Neologisms7 What Wild Ecstasy: Sexual Liberation, Pedophilia, and Pornography8 As Nature Made Him: The Reimer CaseConclusion: Venuses PenusesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThis critical reassessment of the Quaker-sponsored humanitarian nursing convoy in 1940s China will deepen understanding of the ethical, cultural, and political barriers to delivering humanitarian assistance then and now.Trade ReviewThe book contributes in an interesting and valuable way to the history of nursing by women in faith. -- Charmaine Robson, University of New South Wales * Health and History, Vol. 20, No. 2 *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: From Regional War to Global War, 1941–45Introduction to Part 11 Trial by Fire: Early Field Operations, 1941–422 A Marriage of Convenience: Courting the Chinese Nurses, 1942–433 The Salween Campaign: Humanitarian Diplomacy, 1944–454 “China Needs Good Men, and Still Better Women,” British Nurses, 1943–445 Baoshan: Professionalism, Pacifism, and Proposals, 1944–45Part 2: Navigating New Humanitarian Frontiers, 1945–51Introduction to Part 2 6 The Road to Honan: Plagues, Cholera, and Devilish Devolutions, 1944–457 Henan: Hope and Despair, 1945–478 “Early Team”: Guerrilla Warfare Nursing, 1946–47Part 3: Unwelcome Visitors: Negotiating Access with The Communists, 1947–51Introduction to Part 39 Nursing beyond the Trenches, 1947–50Conclusion: Nurse Warriors without WeaponsNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the history of public health in Canada, covering issues such as milk pasteurization, vaccination, fluoridation, nutrition education, industrial health, and campaigns against sexually transmitted infections.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Creating Healthy Citizens1 “Tell Your Children the Truth”: The Canadian Social Hygiene Council and Venereal Disease Education2 Expanding the Mission: Publicizing Public Health3 “Stamp Out VD!” The Health League of Canada and Venereal Disease Education during the 1940s and 1950s4 Preventing Sickness and Absenteeism: The Health League and the Workplace5 “The Human Factory”: Nutrition, Efficiency, and Longevity6 Fighting Apathy and Ignorance: National Campaigns7 “A Malicious, Mendacious Minority”: Fighting for Water Fluoridation8 Circling the Drain: The League’s Slow DeclineConclusion: The Successes and Failures of Preventive HealthNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisOnce considered revolutionary, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has failed. The Impossible Clinic explores the conundrum of EBM's attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Ironically, when medical institutions combine disciplinary regulations with EBM to produce clinical practice guidelines, the outcomes are antithetical to the aim. Such guidelines fail to increase individual physicians' decision-making capacities as EBM promises because they externalize judgment through disciplinary control. Ariane Hanemaayer uses a critical sociology approach to argue that EBM persists because it has congealed within the dominant liberal political strategy of governance, which seeks to improve health care at a distance, at the least cost, and without investment in infrastructure. As such, The Impossible Clinic is the first book to interrogate the history, practice, and pitfalls of EBM and explain how it persists due to intersecting relatioTrade ReviewThis important book provides a thoughtful analysis of shortcomings, but parts of the text are so rich in medical humanities jargon that they are sometimes hard to follow. -- M. Gochfeld * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Conversations in Medicine: Problematizing Clinical Practice2 Institutional Sites: McMaster University and Canada’s Contribution to Medical Training3 Responsibilizing a New Kind of Clinician: Problem-Based Learning4 Technologies of Regulation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Effects of Normalization5 The Impossible Clinic: Biopolitics, Governmentality, LiberalismConclusionNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThe first historical study of morality and science in Canadian medicine, Medicine and Morality shows how moments of doubt in doctors’ impartiality resulted in changes to how medicine was done, and even to the very definition of medical practice itself.Trade ReviewKang’s analysis illuminates our current anxiety about the proper place of health care in public life. -- Viviane Fairbank * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Toward a Theory of Medical Disinterestedness2 A Brotherhood of Scientific Gentlemen3 Building Bridges, Making Amends4 The Paradox of Medical PublishingConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThe first historical study of morality and science in Canadian medicine, Medicine and Morality shows how moments of doubt in doctors’ impartiality resulted in changes to how medicine was done, and even to the very definition of medical practice itself.Trade ReviewKang’s analysis illuminates our current anxiety about the proper place of health care in public life. -- Viviane Fairbank * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Toward a Theory of Medical Disinterestedness2 A Brotherhood of Scientific Gentlemen3 Building Bridges, Making Amends4 The Paradox of Medical PublishingConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisNursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of the most consequential additions to health care in early-twentieth-century China.Trade Review“This is an important book and a riveting story.” -- Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto“Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is truly hard to put down! This is an exciting read, albeit sometimes a sad one, written by an outstanding scholar of nursing, religion, and mission. Social history at its best.” -- Barbra Mann Wall, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Before the PUMC Closure1 China Calling (1914–1933)2 Unsettling Nursing (1932–1940)3 Shifting Missions (1936–1940)4 The Bomb that Changed Everything (1940–1942)Part 2: After the PUMC Closure5 Starting over in West China (1943–1945)6 Fighting the Foundation’s “Darling Child” (1943–1946)7 “Our Triumphant Return” (1946–1949)8 The Last Chapter (1949–1951)ConclusionAppendix 1 List of Nurses at the West China MissionAppendix 2 PUMC Nursing Faculty to 1949Appendix 3 List of All Interned Nurses in ChinaAppendix 4 PUMC Nursing Graduates to 1939Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisNursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of the most consequential additions to health care in early-twentieth-century China.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Before the PUMC Closure1 China Calling (1914–1933)2 Unsettling Nursing (1932–1940)3 Shifting Missions (1936–1940)4 The Bomb that Changed Everything (1940–1942)Part 2: After the PUMC Closure5 Starting over in West China (1943–1945)6 Fighting the Foundation’s “Darling Child” (1943–1946)7 “Our Triumphant Return” (1946–1949)8 The Last Chapter (1949–1951)ConclusionAppendix 1 List of Nurses at the West China MissionAppendix 2 PUMC Nursing Faculty to 1949Appendix 3 List of All Interned Nurses in ChinaAppendix 4 PUMC Nursing Graduates to 1939Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisExamining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares the eugenics movements in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina with the more familiar cases of Britain, the United States, and Germany.Trade ReviewIn a thoughtful and carefully researched book, Nancy Stepan examines the political, cultural, and scientific roles of eugenics in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico from the 1910s through the 1940s.... She skillfully shows the ideological dualities resulting from eugenic practices.... An excellent addition to the literature on eugenics and the history of science in Latin America. * Medical History *Race is the primary focus in Nancy Leys Stepan's fascinating account of the fortunes of eugenic ideas and policies in the racially mixed setting of Latin America.... Stepan has now made a significant contribution to an international picture of the development of race and population policies. It is particularly useful in showing the remarkable plasticity of racist discourses on reproduction. * Signs *Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics. * American Historical Review *This book serves as an important corrective to the myopic vision underlying much of the older historiography of the movement.... A sophisticated, non-reductionist treatment of an important topic.... A splendid book. * Journal of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Science and Social Knowledge1. The New Genetics and the Beginnings of Eugenics2. Eugenics in Latin America: Its Origins and Institutional Ecology3. Racial Poisons and the Politics of Heredity in Latin America in the 1920s4. "Matrimonial Eugenics": Gender and the Construction of Negative Eugenics5. National Identities and Racial Transformations6. U.S., Pan American, and Latin Visions of Eugenics7. Conclusion: Science and the Politics of InterpretationIndex

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Book SynopsisFlorence Nightingale and her place in nursing history and in contemporary nursing discourse is a topic of continuing interest for nursing students, teachers, and professional associations. This book offers new scholarship on her work and legacy.Trade Review"Notes on Nightingale is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together some of the world's most eminent Nightingale scholars. It explodes myths, develops sophisticated lines of analysis, and reveals the full range of achievement of one of the world’s most iconic figures. In doing so, it also provides a lens through which we might view that most elusive of modern arts: nursing." -- Christine Hallett, Director, the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Manchester"In reexamining and reinterpreting the life and influence of Florence Nightingale, the authors of the thought-provoking essays in Notes on Nightingale demonstrate the continued power of Nightingale's work and image and, most critically, validate the significance of analyzing contemporary issues from a historical perspective." -- Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–MadisonTable of ContentsForeword by Rachel VerneyIntroduction by Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty1. The Nightingale Imperative by Sioban Nelson2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean War by Carol Helmstadter3. The Dream of Nursing the Empire by Judith Godden4. Rhetoric and Reality in America by Joan E. Lynaugh5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizing by Lynn McDonald6. The Passionate Statistician by M. Eileen Magnello7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Today by Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary WallNotes Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFlorence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world''s first nursing school; and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals. In Notes on Nightingale, nursing historians and scholars offer their valuable reflections on Nightingale and analysis of her role in the profession a century after her death on 13 August 1910 and 150 years since the Nightingale School of Nursing (now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King''s College, London) opened its doors to probationers at St Thomas'' Hospital.There is a great deal of controversy about Nightingaleopinions about her life and work range from blind worship to blanket denunciation. The question of Nightingale and her place in nursing history and in contemporary nursiTrade Review"Notes on Nightingale is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together some of the world's most eminent Nightingale scholars. It explodes myths, develops sophisticated lines of analysis, and reveals the full range of achievement of one of the world’s most iconic figures. In doing so, it also provides a lens through which we might view that most elusive of modern arts: nursing." -- Christine Hallett, Director, the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Manchester"In reexamining and reinterpreting the life and influence of Florence Nightingale, the authors of the thought-provoking essays in Notes on Nightingale demonstrate the continued power of Nightingale's work and image and, most critically, validate the significance of analyzing contemporary issues from a historical perspective." -- Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–MadisonTable of ContentsForeword by Rachel VerneyIntroduction by Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty1. The Nightingale Imperative by Sioban Nelson2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean War by Carol Helmstadter3. The Dream of Nursing the Empire by Judith Godden4. Rhetoric and Reality in America by Joan E. Lynaugh5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizing by Lynn McDonald6. The Passionate Statistician by M. Eileen Magnello7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Today by Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary WallNotes Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers.Trade ReviewCarolyn J. Dean's book is an intelligent, well-researched, and thought-provoking study of an important problem in modern cultural and intellectual history. Focusing on the difficult work of Jacques Lacan and Georges Bataille, Dean furnishes a critical history of the decentered subject in early twentieth-century France—a history that has broader implications given the widespread influence of modern French thought. * American Historical Review *Carolyn J. Dean's central question in this complex and allusive book is 'why has France been the home of a certain model of self-dissolution?’, and the answer is pursued largely in the criminolegal and psychoanalytical domain, eschewing the more literary ‘death of the author’ institutionalized by Barthes. * Modern Language Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book deserves an unambiguous welcome as an overview of American irregular medicine which is simultaneously comprehensive (it ranges smoothly from traditional folk medicine and early nineteenth-century medical botany up to Oral Roberts and contemporary chiropractic) and compact (all this in three hundred pages). -- Roy Porter Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Three Perspectives on Unorthodox MedicineChapter 2. The Botanical Movements and Orthodox MedicineChapter 3. Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox MedicineChapter 4. Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure MovementChapter 5. Homeopathy in America: The Rise and Fall and Persistence of a Medical HeresyChapter 6. Osteopathic Medicine: From Deviance to DifferenceChapter 7. Chiropractors: Evolution to AcceptanceChapter 8. Christian Science Healing in AmericaChapter 9. Divine Healing in Modern American ProtestantismChapter 10. Contemporary Folk MedicineReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book Synopsissocial history.Trade ReviewWell written, with a very useful bibliographical essay and index, this book can be recommended for medical and general readers alike. It should also quickly find its way into the classroom, both at the high school and college levels... The author has carefully woven health-related events and developments into the tapestry of American history, exploring them in relation to geography and climate, culture and institutions, politics and economics. -- Guenter B. Risse, M.D. Journal of the American Medical Association To cover the history of medicine in America from the earliest European settlements to the present day in 159 pages seems a risky enough undertaking, yet James Cassedy here carries it off admirably... It is clearly written; its generalizations are firmly stated; and its scope is broad. -- Anne Hardy Medical History

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Book SynopsisPaper edition, with a new preface, of a 1972 work. The author, a sociologist, explains how ...19th-century medicine did not disappear; it evolved into modern medicine...; and he discusses such topics as active versus conservative intervention, reciprocity between physicians and the public in adoptTrade Review[According to a survey of medical historians] the most important book of the past decade was William G. Rothstein's American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century. Reviews in American History Rothstein's approach is significantly different from the traditional one... he has produced a useful and stimulating work. British Journal of the History of Science A very readable book that will be of value to anyone interested in nineteenth-century medicine. Taken with the existing works on the majors sects, Professor Rothstein has made a significant contribution to the field of medical history. Journal of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface to the 1992 editionPrefacePart I. Method of Analysis and Colonial AntecedentsChapter 1. Plan of AnalysisChapter 2. Prologue: The Colonial PeriodPart II. The Regular Profession in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 3. Medical Practice Among PhysiciansChapter 4. Medical Societies and Medical LicensingChapter 5. Medical EducationChapter 6. Relations Between Medical Schools and Medical SocietiesPart III. The Rebellion Against the Regular Medical ProfessionChapter 7. The Thomsonian MovementChapter 8. The Rise of HomeopathyPart IV. The Institutionalization of Medical SectsChapter 9. The Therapeutics of the Regular Sect After the Civil WarChapter 10. Stratification and Specialization in the Regular Medical Profession After the Civil WarChapter 11. The Eclectic Sect: Successor to Botanical MedicineChapter 12. The Homeopathic SectPart V. The Rise of Scientific MedicineChapter 13. The Beginnings of Scientific Medicine: SurgeryChapter 14. Bacteriology and the Medical ProfessionChapter 15. Developments in Medical Education After the Civil WarChapter 16. The Death of Sectarian MedicineAppendix I. Founding Dates of Important Local and State Regular Medical Societies in Selected States Before the Civil WarAppendix II. Medical Licensing Legislation in Selected States Before the Civil WarAppendix III. Sources of Citations Given in Appendices I and IIAppendix IV. Enumerations of Physicians, 185901900Index

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