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2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.

2018

#11938

The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.

Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multi…

2018

#12390

Landmark papers in otolaryngology. Edited by John S. Phillips and Sally Erskine.

2018

#12532

Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.

2018

#12560

Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.

Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, whic…

2018

#12563

Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.

"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…

2018

#12625

The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.

2018

#13673

Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power. Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martinez.

"Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea,…

2019

#10777

Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.

2019

#11274

Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain

2019

#11367

Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.

2019

#11453

Charcot's studies on hysteria: Five case histories, 1870-1893.

2019

#11529

An equal burden: The men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War.

2019

#11999

Literature and nature in the English renaissance: An ecocritical anthology. Edited by Todd Andrew Borlik.

2019

#12536

Syriac medicine by Grigory Kessel. Pages 438-459 IN: The Syriac world edited by Daniel King.

2019

#13095

John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, science, and commerce in nineteenth-century natural history illustration

"During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many spe…

2019

#13671

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture.

2020

#12309

Innovation in Byzantine medicine: The writings of John Zacharias Aktourarios (c. 1275- c. 1330)

2020

#12512

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, Anecdotes and antidotes: A medieval Arabic history of physicians. A new translation. Translated by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain et al. Selected and edited by Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, with introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder. [Oxford World’s Classics].

2020

#12590

Disibility in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry.

2020

#12981

The dome of uryne: A reading edition of nine Middle English uroscopies.

"This volume contains nine of the most widely disseminated Middle English uroscopies, each of them short enough to be consulted quickly by practitioners and all of them commonly found in English medical miscellanies. …

2020

#13012

Exploring Greek manuscripts in the library at Wellcome Collection in London. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos.

2020

#13497

Galen: A thinking doctor in Imperial Rome

A very readable and relatively brief, but comprehensive, biography. The appendix provides a complete list of Galen's works with their titles in Latin, also in English translation, correlated to the best editions and t…

2020

#13518

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

2020

#13537

Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.

2020

#13670

Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.

2020

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2020

#13776

The human gene editing debate.

"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…

2020

#14043

Patents on life: Religious, moral, and social justice aspects of biotechnology and intellectual property. Edited by Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft.

2021

#13773

Literature and medicine. Vol. 1. The eighteenth century. Vol. 2. The nineteenth century. Edited by Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham.

2021

#13794

A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.

2021

#13916

"All manner of ingenuity and industry." A bio-bibliography of Dr. Thomas Willis 1621-1675 by Alastair Compston.

2023

#14158

Freud's antiquity: Object / Idea / Desire. Exhibition catalogue 25/02/2023 -16/07/2023. Edited by Richard Armstrong, Miriam Leonard, Daniel Orrells, Tom DeRose & Karolina Heller.

An interpretive exhibition catalogue explaining the relationship of Freud's large collection of antiquities preserved in the Freud Museum to ideas that Freud developed in psychoanalysis.