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Medicine, Madness and Social History
Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the…
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Practising Colonial Medicine
The role of the Colonial Medical Service – the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories – goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. “Practising Colonial Medicine”…
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Student Bodies
Student Bodies is the first book to link developments in college health with larger trends in American cultural and medical history. This comprehensive and engrossing study describes the origins and…
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The Black Death
A History of the Most Catastrophic Plague Through Contemporary Accounts and How Humans Reacted Hailed by the New York Times as “unusually interesting both as history and sociological study,” The Black Death:…
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The Colony
In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony reveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people…
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The History of American Homeopathy
Although scorned in the early 1900s and publicly condemned by Abraham Flexner and the American Medical Association, the practice of homeopathy did not disappear. Instead, it evolved with the emergence…