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  • Medicine in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Roger Cooter, John Pickstone ...
    During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • In the Name of the Child

    Edited by Roger Cooter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

    by Roger Cooter, Claudia Stein ...
    A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography. In particular, he examines the “double bind” of postmodernism and biological or neurological modeling that ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Roger Cooter, John Pickstone ...
    During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly depe ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

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  • Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

    Figuring the Social

    Edited by Alison Li, Shelley McKellar, Elsbeth A. Heaman ...
    A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Madness:A Brief History

    A Brief History

    by Roy Porter ...
    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.The origins of current debates about how we define ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Disability and Society

    by Dr Patrick McDonnell ...
    Disability and Society: Ideological and Historical Dimensions explores the changing relationship between disability and society in Western culture from early modern times to the present, with a particular emphasis on Ireland. The author identifies the main ideologies and practices that have shaped the relationship between disability and society, describes how these emerged over time and discusses ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Breathing Race into the Machine

    The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics

    by Lundy Braun ...
    How race became embedded in a medical instrumentIn the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    by Jane Humphries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Control

    The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

    by Adam Rutherford ...
    How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, ... Read more

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