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  • Bloody British History: Camden

    Series series Bloody British History
    Black Death! The horrors of the plague in Camden! My wife is under the floor! The true story of Camden murderer Doctor Crippen! The elephant stampede! Weird accidents and strange events galore! Camden has a dark side to rival that of any London borough. The haunt of highwaymen, its fields also witnessed numerous duels. Crime, poverty and depravity were rife in parts of Holborn until the late ... Read more

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  • Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek

    West Hampstead's Musical Heritage Remembered

    Considerable attention has been given to the EMI Abbey Road Studios in St Johns Wood, particularly because of their association with the Beatles. In contrast, very little has been written about their great rivals Decca, who had recording studios in nearby Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead. This book will explore the history of Decca and specifically the Studios, where thousands of records were ... Read more

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  • The Marquis de Leuville

    A Victorian Fraud?

    Once called the greatest charlatan of his age, the Marquis was a fascinating Victorian 'renaissance man'. Born to an artistic family, he became a renowned poet and adventurer. A crack shot and excellent swordsman, the Marquis fought duels and has a series of high-profile love affairs. He joined Garibaldi during the unification of Italy and claimed an affair with the Queen of Naples. Louisa Tussaud ... Read more

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  • Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments

    Science and Suffering in the Holocaust

    While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.Paul Weindling bases this study on the reconstruction of a victim group through individual ... Read more

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  • Thicker Than Water

    Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

    Series series Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
    Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe“Blood is thicker than water,” goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections? Thicker than Water examines the roots of this belief by studying the omnipresent discourse of bloodlines and kindred relations in the literature of early ... Read more

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  • The Social History of Occupational Health

    Edited by Paul Weindling ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers’ political movements, there had been virtually no published work on the social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases. First published in 1985, The Social History of Occupational Health is the first to explore this neglected area from the perspective of social history.The chapters focus on several ... Read more

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  • Great Minds in Despair

    The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989

    Series Book 66 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    The twentieth century witnessed two devastating world wars that led to the exodus of millions of people. Counted among them were hundreds of neuroscientists and biological psychiatrists from Nazi Germany and its surrounding countries who were forced to emigrate in the 1930s and 1940s. Many of them settled in North America, where they profoundly influenced the development of the biomedical sciences ... Read more

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  • Clinical Aspects of Sensory Motor Integration

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The ability to use tools skillfully is generally regarded as one of the major achievements in the evolutionary development of the human nervous system. It is possible for controlled movements of muscles to be executed only if sensory information is integrated into complex neural circuits at various hierarchical levels. The chapters in this volume deal with basic and clinical aspects of integrative ... Read more

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  • Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000

    Edited by Paul Weindling ...
    A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.This book considers a comprehensive range of topics ranging from children's health, mental disorders and the influence of ... Read more

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  • Medicalising borders

    Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800

    Series series Rethinking Borders
    The 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 ... Read more

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  • From Clinic to Concentration Camp

    Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945

    Edited by Paul Weindling ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD