United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
2013
#12023
Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.
"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…
2013
#12389
Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.
2013
#12391
Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.
2013
#12568
Wars, pestilence and the surgeon's blade: The evolution of British Military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century.
2013
#13230
A history of psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomsky Era.
2013
#13265
The history of radiology.
2013
#13647
Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.
"Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This…
2013
#13691
A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.
2014
#7377
The Oxford handbook of animals in classical thought and life.
2014
#7664
Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.
2014
#7846
Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.
2014
#7889
The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.
2014
#8038
Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
2014
#8194
COPAC.
http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search/form/main: "Copac exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of c.90 major UK and Irish libraries (and growing). In a single search you can discover th…
2014
#9845
Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.
"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…
2014
#10043
Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.
"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 19…
2014
#10422
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
2014
#10970
Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.
A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed.
2014
#11346
Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.
2014
#11359
Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.
2014
#12525
Medicine in Medieval Islam by Emilie Savage-Smith. IN: The Cambridge history of science, Vol. 2: Medieval science, edited by D. Lindberg and M. H. Shank, pp. 140-167.
2014
#12709
Forensic medicine and death investigation in Medieval England.
2014
#12783
Music and the nerves 1700-1900. Edited by James Kennway.
2014
#12839
Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.
2014
#13528
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
2014
#13887
Doctor Hieronymus Münzer's itinerary (1494 and 1495) and the discovery of Guinea. Edited and translated by James Firth.
2015
#7203
Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.
2015
#7582
William Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.
Authoritative illustrated chapters on aspects of Hunter's collecting, including anatomy, zoology, entomology, fossils, numismatics, paintings, drawings, printed books and manuscripts. A collective work edited by Hanco…
2015
#7637
The fate of anatomical collections.
A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Ri…
2015
#7855
Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.
The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…
2015
#8431
The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.
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2015
#8724
The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.
2015
#8790
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
2015
#9039
The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.
The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…
2015
#9476
The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.
Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
2015
#9636
In search of the perfect health system.
"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…
2015
#9706
Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
2015
#9716
The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.
"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a…
2015
#10116
The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.
"From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general pra…
2015
#11196
The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.
2015
#11442
Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.
2015
#12408
Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.
2015
#13186
Insects, hygiene and history.
2015
#13745
Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.
2016
#7518
A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.
An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.
2016
#7804
Virus: An illustrated guide to 101 incredible microbes.
Includes historical data, spectacular color photomicrographs, drawings, and geographical range maps for 101 viruses
2016
#8047
Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
2016
#8106
The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.
2016
#8550
Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.
2016
#8977
The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.
"The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and rema…