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The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history... 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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Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation.
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This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism,... Læs mere
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This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. As diseases of the prostate,... Læs mere
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This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine.
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The horror of this devastating disorder which upturned the household, turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, was magnified by it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.
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The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier... Læs mere
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This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the... Læs mere
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'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states... Læs mere
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Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients. This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties.