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Doctors drew on ideas from social Darwinism, eugenics, and social anthropology to explain the incidence of syphilis among poor whites and Africans, especially women, and to help define 'normal' and abnormal sexual behaviour for racial groups.
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Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and... Læs mere
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The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a... Læs mere
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Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene... Læs mere
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This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from... Læs mere
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Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of... Læs mere
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This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute... Læs mere
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The final chapter shows how hearing loss among First World War combatants prompted hearing specialists to take a more supportive approach,... Læs mere
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Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.
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Virginia Langum offers anaccount of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions inreligious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioraldiscussions within medical contexts.
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Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body –... Læs mere
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This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). The macabre history of... Læs mere