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by Helen Yallop
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person’s age was a significant aspect of their identity.
Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970
Inmates and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was dramatically increasing.
A Mind Apart
Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple perspectives...
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914
Space, identity and power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of bacteriology...
World Epidemics
A Cultural Chronology of Disease from Prehistory to the Era of Zika, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In its expanded second edition, this chronology examines the effects of epidemic illness and death on human culture from 2700 bce to 2017. Entries summarize incidents of contagion across the globe, including symptoms, treatment, prevention and demographics, as well as biographical information on notable...
Sharks upon the Land
Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai'i, 1778–1855
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century....
Political corruption in Ireland 1922–2010
A crooked harp?
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010.
by Thierry Crouzet
Language: French
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Vous ne le savez peut-être pas, mais une innovation a changé votre vie. En vous frictionnant les mains avec un gel hydro-alcoolique, vous vous protégez des maladies.
Voici l’histoire de ce produit révolutionnaire libre de tout brevet, offert en cadeau à l’humanité par le professeur...
by Pablo Castro, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This special issue of Heart Failure Clinics examines heart failure with a truly global perspective, exposing health inequities in the treatment of heart failure.
The Collective Works of Yves
Haiti's Number One Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
The first in a fascinating series. This two(2) book collection blends and depicts Haitis quest for freedom from its inception to the present day. A looking glass, if you will, into the passions that fueled this modern day life scientist to prism and harness the pains and costs of a revolution. Book...
US politics today
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The third edition of US politics today provides a concise, up-to-date and accessible introduction to US government and politics. It offers a survey of core institutions such as the Presidency, Congress and the US Supreme Court, assesses the electoral system and considers the part played by organised...
Medizin im Konzentrationslager Flossenbuerg 1938 bis 1945
Biografische Annaeherungen an Taeter, Opfer und Tatbestaende
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Die Quellenstudie liefert einen Beitrag zur Medizingeschichte des KZ Flossenbürg. Durch die über 1945 hinausgehende Perspektive kann die Autorin in Übereinstimmung mit der aktuellen Täterforschung deutlich machen, wie Justiz und Standesvertretungen in der Nachkriegszeit mit den ärztlichen Tätern...
Mala dies
L'inferno degli ospedali psichiatrici giudiziari e delle istituzioni totali in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Bianca il giorno del suo compleanno ha subìto l’elettroshock più forte. Compiva 51 anni. Da oltre un decennio viveva in uno degli ospedali psichiatrici giudiziari (opg) italiani. Quello è stato il suo mala dies, il giorno peggiore della sua vita.
Gli opg italiani sono un’istituzione totale...