United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
2009
#7852
Medical miracles: Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world.
2009
#9258
Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.
2009
#9758
Bathing in the Roman world.
2009
#9783
Before Prozac: The troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry.
2009
#9956
Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine.
http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife 'Brought to Life', is a website provided by the Science Museum, London. It offers access to images of thousands of fascinating objects from the Museum’s great me…
2009
#9975
Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
2009
#10001
Health and medicine in ancient Egypt. Magic and science (British Archaeological Reports [BAR] International Series 1967).
Detailed study of documentation (papyri, ostraca and mummies) followed by a list of pathologies by types and some considerations on medicines and their materia medica.
2009
#10075
Galen and the world of knowledge. Edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
Among the numerous essays in this volume are those by Vivian Nutton on Galen's Library and on Galen's bibiography of his own writings by Jason König.
2009
#10098
Darwin's armada: Four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution.
Discusses the voyages by Darwin, Huxley, Hooker and Wallace that informed their key Victorian works on the theory of evolution.
2009
#10770
Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.
2009
#11355
The quest for artificial intelligence.
A history of artificial intelligence in general, including medical applications, from the 18th century onward by a pioneer of artificial intelligence.
2009
#11512
Technological medicine: The changing world of doctors and patients.
2009
#11939
Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs. Edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie.
2009
#12021
Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
2009
#12148
Of books and botany in early modern England: Sixteenth-century plants and print culture.
2009
#12666
Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.
"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of d…
2009
#14357
Milton and maternal mortality.
"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…
2010
#7082
Ancient Babylonian medicine: Theory and practice.
The first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars. Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medici…
2010
#7465
Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.
2010
#7825
Disease, health care and government in late imperial Russia: Life and death on the Volga, 1823-1914.
2010
#7844
The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.
2010
#8117
The Wellcome Library Digital Collections.
http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/ "The Wellcome Library is developing a world-class online resource for the history of medicine by digitising a substantial proportion of its holdings and maki…
2010
#8248
The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.
2010
#8332
Health and disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12 centuries AD).
2010
#8593
The anatomist anatomis'd: An experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe.
History of the practice and teaching of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, in the 18th century, mainly in Europe, but also touching on the introduction of Western methods of studying and teaching anatomy into Japan.
2010
#8822
Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.
2010
#9389
Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…
2010
#9670
A companion to American environmental history. Edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman.
2010
#9844
The Royal Society: The Repository.
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science "INCIPIT "Hello and welcome to the Centre for History of Science. We look after the Royal Society’s amazing collections of archives, rare books, pictures and artefacts…
2010
#10220
Angel of death: The story of smallpox.
2010
#10487
A cultural history of sexuality. Edited by Julie Peakman. 6 vols.
"Vol. 1: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World Edited by Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg, and Peter Toohey, University of Calgary Vol. 2: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages Edited …
2010
#11169
Folk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.
2010
#11275
History of neurology (Vol. 95). Handbook of Clinical Neurology series). Edited by Stanley Finger, François Boller, and Kenneth L. Tyler.
2010
#12514
The key to medicine and a guide for students, by Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥ usayn ibn Hindū. Translated by Aida Tibi and reviewed by E. Savage-Smith [The Great Books of Islamic Civilization Series, The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar].
2010
#13023
A cultural history of the human body. Edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum. 6 vols.
"A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural objec…
2010
#13652
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversi…
2011
#7232
Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History.
2011
#7541
A history of British sports medicine.
2011
#7675
Model experts: Wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815.
2011
#7847
The Oxford companion of the history of medicine. Edited by Mark Jackson.
2011
#7930
A history of endometriosis.
2011
#7949
Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.
2011
#8247
The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
2011
#8439
A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.
2011
#9841
Digital Bodeian. Judith Siefring, Head of Digital Research.
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ "The Bodleian Libraries’ collections are extraordinary and significant—both from a scholarly point of view and as material that has an historic and aesthetic richness that holds valu…
2011
#9892
A short history of mathematical population dynamics.
2011
#10360
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
2011
#10545
Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.
2011
#10549
Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…
2011
#10576