Medical History category: 1391 books
Difference and Disease
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Workers and revolution in Serbia
From Tito to Milo_evic and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers both in Tito’s Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Miloševic in October 2000. The authors argue that Tito and the Communist leadership of Yugoslavia saw self-management as a modernising project to compete...
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine
Striking with tied hands
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book’s main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers’ interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist...
Schizophrenia
A Scientific Delusion?
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Lynn Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Offers a new theory of citizenship applicable beyond the nation-state. It brings political and moral philosophy together with current debates in citizenship, European integration, and international relations.
The Secrets of Generation
Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century.
Exploring the theme of generation from the perspective...
Improvising Medicine
An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge...
Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Current understanding of neurological disease has been evolving over the past 150 years. With the increasing and earlier sub-specialization of neurology trainees, and their variable exposure to higher academic study, there is little opportunity to put this development into a historical context as...
Global citizen and European republic
Irish foreign policy in transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Will the real Ireland please stand up? European Republic, Global Citizen, Anglo-American State or Irish Nation? - this text offers an analysis of Irish foreign policy that focuses upon its transformation as a result of Ireland’s membership of the European Union and a broader evolution in national identity.
Edward Jenner et le vaccin contre la variole
Les premiers pas de la vaccination
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Edward Jenner et le vaccin contre la variole en moins d’une heure !
Pendant des siècles, la variole a effrayé l’Europe par son caractère endémique et mortel. Si des mesures sont prises pour s’en prémunir dès les premiers siècles...
The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer
Clinical and Cultural Visions since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and better training for paediatricians, meant children were given access to experimental chemotherapy, sending cure rates soaring. Children with cancer were thrust into the spotlight as individuals' stories of hope hit the headlines.
Professor Hein J.J. Wellens: 33 Years of Cardiology and Arrhythmology
33 Years of Cardiology and Arrhythmology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The first invasive evaluation of cardiac arrhythmias in humans was performed in 1967 in Paris (Prof. P. Coumel) and Amsterdam (Prof. D. Durrer). This was the start of a rapid increase in our knowledge of the diagnosis, mechanism and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. In that same year Prof. Hein J.J....
Willem Einthoven (1860–1927) Father of electrocardiography
Life and work, ancestors and contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the first book on Einthoven in the English language; two earlier extensive reviews of his life and work were published in Dutch by his former co workers Hoogerwerf and de Waart, in 1946 and 1957 respectively; the latter provides a brief summary in English; the former also wrote a succinct...