Tous les ebooks de la collection "Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Blood Groups and Human Heredity, 1900-1950 William H. Schneider This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century. The main theme of this book is how blood groups were used as a scientific explanation of differences in race, health,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2024-11-29 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A History of British Eugenics since 1865 David Redvaldsen This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galton Laboratory attached to the University of London; and the Eugenics Society. It charts internal and ideological changes... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2024-11-09 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa Suryakanthie Chetty This book traces the career of pioneering South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Jack Penn, from its beginnings during the Second World War. It explores the establishment of Penn’s private practice, and his work in diverse countries, including Gabon, Japan... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-07-28 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain Ryosuke Yokoe The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain. Despite this, it was not until the 1970s that cirrhosis came to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-04-28 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects Miguel García-Sancho , James Lowe This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives to map and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-03-31 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949 Di Lu This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-03-11 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970 Stuart Anderson Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-10-22 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times Christos Lynteris This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-07-29 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 168,79 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967 Violetta Hionidou The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abortion and contraception within the historiography of the fertility... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-05-15 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914 Tinne Claes This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-11-20 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 60,12 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains Christos Lynteris This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-10-11 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War David Durnin This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while also interrogating the effect of global war on the development of Ireland’s domestic medical infrastructure, especially... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-04-26 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 89,66 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy Sally Frampton This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen.... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-12-30 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine Michael Bresalier , Angela Cassidy , Rachel Mason Dentinger , Abigail Woods This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-29 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF Gratuit
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain María Jesús Santesmases This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-18 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion Nicholas H A Evans , Christos Lynteris This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-13 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England Alan Mackintosh In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era. Patent medicines constituted a national... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-04 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948 Ornella Moscucci This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-01-24 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916 Anne R. Hanley This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-04 Collection : Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub

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