United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
2001
#8875
Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.
An edition of just over 1500 medical receipts transmitted in three fourteenth-century compendia. The particular interest of these multilingual compilations lies in their date – earlier than most published receipts – a…
2001
#9649
The breast cancer wars: Hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America.
2001
#9686
Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
2001
#9786
Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870-1930. Edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.
2001
#9813
Physiognomy and the meaning of expression in nineteenth-century culture.
"...explores the concepts of physiognomy and eugenics and raises questions about what are "legitimate" sciences.[2] She describes how "the appeal of physiognomy lay not so much in any of its scientific pretension but …
2001
#9927
The Jungians: A comparative and historical perspective.
The first book on the history of the profession of analytical psychology from its origins in 1913. Because Kirsch was personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history, he was well equipped to write the history o…
2001
#10895
The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
2001
#10934
The history of the Royal Society of Medicine.
2001
#11423
Pharmacopoeias and related literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847.
"Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the period cov…
2001
#11853
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
2001
#12071
Encylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.
2001
#12145
Aristotle on life and death
2002
#7271
The primate fossil record.
A comprehensive collaborative study edited by Hartwig. Includes an extensive historical bibliography.
2002
#7471
Historical atlas and dermatology and dermatologists.
2002
#7673
Embryos in wax: Models from the Ziegler studio.
2002
#7983
Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.
2002
#8034
Professional and popular medicine in France 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice.
"This is the first comprehensive study on a national scale of the entire range of medical practitioners who flourished in preindustrial and early industrial societies. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it provides…
2002
#8041
Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.
Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.
2002
#8231
The unknown Galen. Edited by Vivian Nutton.
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2002
#8610
The word as scalpel: A history of medical sociology.
2002
#8830
Wellington's doctors: The British Army Medical Services in the Napoleonic wars.
2002
#8879
Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.
Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…
2002
#9076
Aristotle: Historia animalium. Volume 1, Books I-X: Text. Edited by D. M. Balme. Prepared for publication by Allan Gotthelf.
Critical edition based on a collation of the 26 known extant manuscripts and a study of the early Latin translations. Begun by Balme in 1975, with his work towards the Loeb editio minor of books VII–X, this edition in…
2002
#9078
Aristotle: On the parts of the animals I-IV. Translated with commentary by James G. Lennox.
2002
#9432
An ear to the chest: An illustrated history of the evolution of the stethoscope.
2002
#9715
Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).
2002
#9858
A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis.
2002
#10175
Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.
"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…
2002
#10194
Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".
"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …
2002
#10938
The eye of the lynx. Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history.
2002
#11032
Abortion in the ancient world.
2002
#11417
Paul Ehrlich's receptor immunology: The magnificent obsession.
2002
#11720
Coffee: A bibliography. A guide to the literature on coffee. 2 vols.
"...listing over 15,000 imprints relating to every aspect of coffee from the past to the present. The principal writings on coffee have been identified and described in light of available source material. Represented …
2002
#12378
The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).
2002
#13461
Origins of neuroscience: A history of explorations into brain function.
2002
#13503
Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.
2002
#14288
An introduction to human evolutionary anatomy.
2003
#7323
An atlas of hair pathology—with clinical correlations.
2003
#7427
Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.
2003
#7560
Medicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.
A collective work edited by Arnold and Olsen.
2003
#7598
Medicine and science at Exeter Cathedral Library. A short-title catalogue of printed books 1483 to 1900, with a list of 10th -19th century manuscripts.
Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific books from all periods. It includes the library of the Exeter physician Thomas Glass, which he left to the cathedral in the …
2003
#7956
Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism
2003
#8405
Psyche and soma: Physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.
2003
#9874
Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.
2003
#9966
A merciful end: The euthanasia movement in modern America.
2003
#10025
Palliative care perspectives.
2003
#10710
Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.
2003
#10758
On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.
2003
#11047
Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).
2003
#11347