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  • Infertility

    Tracing the History of a Transformative Term

    by Robin E. Jensen ...
    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe.Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical ... Read more

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  • The Works of Hippocrates (Illustrated Edition)

    by Hippocrates ...
    *Includes 17 works about science and medicine. Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sign of Pathology

    U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s

    by Nathan Stormer ...
    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    Much of the political polarization that grips the United States is rooted in the so-called culture wars, and no topic defines this conflict better than the often contentious and sometimes violent debate over abortion rights. In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer reframes our understanding of this conflict by examining the medical literature on abortion from the 1800s to the 1960s.Often framed as an ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Secret Mind

    by Kaye Kelly ...
    A lively, moving novel that vividly recreates the 1880s: the harsh lives; the attitudes to madness and to drunkenness; and the strength of friendship and love. After an accident at four years old, Libby Budd has difficulty speaking. Her devoted father refuses to see there's a problem - even when she starts having fits, seeing dead people and, as she grows older, behaving erratically and violently. ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Asperger's Children

    The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

    by Edith Sheffer ...
    “An impassioned indictment, one that glows with the heat of a prosecution motivated by an ethical imperative.” —Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review of BooksIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Medicine and the Saints

    Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

    by Ellen J. Amster ...
    The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Langstaff

    A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life

    by Jacalyn Duffin ...
    Series series Heritage
    A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889). ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

    Edited by W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Companion Encyclopedias
    This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to provide detailed and informative factual surveys with contemporary interpretations and historiographical debate.Special Features* Comprehensive: 72 ... Read more

    $750.00 USD

  • Rhetoric and Philosophy

    Edited by Richard A. Cherwitz, Henry W. Johnstone Jr. ...
    This important volume explores alternative ways in which those involved in the field of speech communication have attempted to find a philosophical grounding for rhetoric. Recognizing that rhetoric can be supported in a wide variety of ways, this text examines eight different philosophies of rhetoric: realism, relativism, rationalism, idealism, materialism, existentialism, deconstructionism, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Dying for Victorian Medicine

    English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834 - 1929

    by E. Hurren ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable case histories which still echo a vibrant body-business on the internet today in a biomedical age. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Contesting Medical Confidentiality

    Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany

    by Andreas-Holger Maehle ...
    Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy. In this age of health databases and increasing connectedness, however, the confidentiality of patient information is rapidly becoming a concern at the forefront of worldwide ethical and political debate.In Contesting ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Real Feature Writing

    by Abraham Aamidor ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Real Feature Writing emphasizes story shape and structure by illustrating several distinct types of feature and non-fiction stories, all drawn from the real world. Author Abraham Aamidor presents a collection of distinct non-deadline story types (profile, trend, focus, advocacy, and more), providing an introduction to each story type, a full-text example, a critical analysis of the example, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD