United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
2016
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Nurse writers of the great war.
2016
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Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.
2016
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Ancient botany.
2016
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The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
2016
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Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.
Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…
2016
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Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.
2016
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Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
2016
#10240
A critical history of schizophrenia.
2016
#10423
Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.
2016
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Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.
2016
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Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.
2016
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Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.
2016
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Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.
2016
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The neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c. 1789-2000.
2016
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A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.
2016
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Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.
2017
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Medicine and pharmacy in Byzantine hospitals: A study of the extant formularies.
2017
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Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.
2017
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Flora unveiled: The discovery and denial of sex in plants.
"Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the …
2017
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Principles of anatomy according to the opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius. Edited [with an English translation] by Vivian Nutton.
The first translation into English of Johann Guinter’s textbook as revised and annotated by Guinter’s student, Andreas Vesalius, in 1538. Despite Vesalius’ fame as an anatomist, his 1538 revision has attracted almost …
2017
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Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
2017
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Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.
2017
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Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
2017
#10231
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain: A social history.
2017
#10454
To heal humankind: The right to health in history,
2017
#10555
Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.
2017
#10559
Human anatomy: Stereoscopic images of medical specimens. From the collection of the Vrolik Museum. Photographs by Jim Naughten, text by Laurens de Rooy.
Extraordinary stereoscopic photographs taken by Naughten from speciemens at the Vrolik Museum at the University of Amsterdam, collected by Gerard Vrolik and his son Willem.
2017
#10661
Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.
2017
#10730
Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.
2017
#10754
Infertility in early modern England.
2017
#10971
A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.
2017
#11086
Faces from the front: Harold Gillies, the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the origins of modern plastic surgery.
2017
#11088
A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.
2017
#12409
Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.
"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…
2017
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A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.
"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…
2017
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The Etruscans and the history of dentistry: The golden smile through the ages.
2017
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The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.
2017
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Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890.
2017
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Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.
2018
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The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
2018
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The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery. Edited by Thomas Schlich.
24 chapters on the history of a wide variety of aspects of general surgery, and of the history of various surgical specialties, by 24 authorities. The work is divided into three parts: 1. Periods and Topics, 2. Links,…
2018
#10696
In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.
Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.
2018
#10705
It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.
"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same…
2018
#10776
Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.
2018
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William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.
This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library.
2018
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Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.
"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…
2018
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The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
2018
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Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.
2018
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The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.
2018
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