История медицины 421 книга
The History of Medicine and Healthcare: Selected Papers
изд. 2021

Frank W. Stahnisch, Lesley Bolton, William J. Prat The History of Medicine and Healthcare: Selected Papers

  • ENG
  • изд. 2021
This volume brings together such topics as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics in history, military medicine, children, women and changing gender roles in modern medicine, public health history, and a special communication on the history of Canadian hospital workers. Of special note is a paper...
8 236 ₽
Exhaustion: A History
изд. 2016

Schaffner Anna Katharina Dr Exhaustion: A History

  • ENG
  • изд. 2016
This book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the body and society , we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant ef...
4 435 ₽
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
изд. 2016

Lamb Jonathan Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

  • ENG
  • изд. 2016

An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century

Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, ...

4 752 ₽
Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot
изд. 2015

Sonja Boon Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot

  • ENG
  • изд. 2015
An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies.
4 460 ₽
Neither donkey nor horse
изд. 2016

Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin Neither donkey nor horse

  • ENG
  • изд. 2016
Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative...
3 802 ₽
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
изд. 2017

McKay Richard A. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

  • ENG
  • изд. 2017
Now an award-winning documentary feature film

The search for a patient zero --popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic--has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence...

4 910 ₽
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
изд. 2020

Porter Theodore M. Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

  • ENG
  • изд. 2020

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed...

3 485 ₽
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
изд. 2011

Takeshita Chikako The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

  • ENG
  • изд. 2011

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.

The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control...

5 925 ₽
Humane professions
изд. 2021

Boddice, Rob Humane professions

  • ENG
  • изд. 2021
In this compelling examination of the story of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice.
12 670 ₽
Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research
изд. 2021

Hurren Elizabeth T. Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

  • ENG
  • изд. 2021
This discipline-redefining study of secretive British medical research cultures after World War Two retraces the harvesting and recycling of bodies and body-parts for tissue culture and pathology labs, transplantation surgery facilities, brain banks, and dissection teaching spaces between 1945 and 2...
12 670 ₽
Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt: Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman's Rights Advocate
изд. 2018

Glenn Myra C. Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt: Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman's Rights Advocate

  • ENG
  • изд. 2018
In this first comprehensive, full-length biography of Harriot Kezia Hunt, Myra C. Glenn shows how this single woman from a working-class Boston home became a successful physician and noted reformer, illuminating the struggle for woman`s rights and the fractious and gendered nature of medicine in ant...
4 382 ₽
Transfusion: Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
изд. 2019

Kibbie Ann Louise Transfusion: Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

  • ENG
  • изд. 2019
England may with justice claim to be the native land of transfusion, wrote one European physician in 1877, acknowledging Great Britain’s crucial role in developing and promoting human-to-human transfusion as treatment for life-threatening blood loss. As news of this revolutionary medical technique ...
5 174 ₽
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