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This book analyzes how women’s bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women’s reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century.
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This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies... Læs mere
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This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal.
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This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in... Læs mere
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This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
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This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914.
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Chapters consider the interventions that exist to manage fatigue – especially in the case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) – before highlighting the lack of strategies in primary care for dealing with the problem.
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The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained a failed... Læs mere
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In the first half of the twentieth century, in the face of widespread resistance to vaccines, public health officials gradually medicalized American culture through mass media, public health campaigns, and the public education system.
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This book goes back to the origins of the transformation of health and medicine into a business, during the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan.
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This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.