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Liselotte Mettler - eine Frau in der Medizin (Frauenheilkunde in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts) (German Edition)

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:47:09 +0000

Wenn sie auf einem medizinischen Fachkongress als „eine der berühmtesten Frauen der Frauenheilkunde“ bezeichnet wird, dann lohnt es sich, dem außergewöhnlicher Werdegang von Liselotte Mettler aus der Kieler Universitätsklinik nachzugehen.

Unter teils schwierigen Bedingungen und nicht sel..

Price: $40.99

Needled (How Acupuncture Conquered America)

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:27:29 +0000

The previously untold modern history of acupuncture and its enormous popularity in the United States, examining our ever-changing relationship with “alternative” medicine

Since acupuncture first burst into the Western popular consciousness in the 1970s, doctors and the public alike h..

Price: $35.00

To Do The Sick No Harm (A Study of the British Voluntary Hospital System to 1875)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:27:47 +0000

What part did the British voluntary hospital system play in the health of the community in the 18th and 19th centuries? Originally published in 1974, this study investigates this question through a pioneering examination of the extant hospital records, and by an analysis of the contemporary lit..

Price: $42.99

Rewriting Nursing History

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:25:37 +0000

First published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history. Rather than a chronology of events or a focus on great men or women as instigators of change, the contributions address specific questions to historical data, pos..

Price: $42.99

Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England (Essays in the Social History of Medicine)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:19:44 +0000

Originally published in 1977, this book presents a selection of work by historians and sociologists on medicine and society in the 19^th century. It concentrates on practitioners and patients, quackery and folk medicine, as elements in the social, cultural, political and economic stru..

Price: $42.99

Outsiders, outcasts and eccentrics (Experiences of deviancy in the social history of medicine)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:49:07 +0000

Merging the social history of medicine with the history of experiences, Outsiders, outcasts, and eccentrics explores the dimensions of deviance in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, India, and the United States. In their carefully selected case studies, the contributors use communities of e..

Price: $36.95

Hybrid healing (Old English remedies and medical texts)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:46:24 +0000

Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle. Hybrid heali..

Price: $36.95

Humane Medicine (A Philosophical Study of an Encounter)

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:24:35 +0000

Humane Medicine: A Philosophical Study of an Encounter argues that medicine's greatest challenge is not technological but human. As scientific advances transform healthcare, Gé rard Reach explores how the essential relationship between physician and patient can remain at the heart of ..

Price: $89.95

Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture (Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:21:29 +0000

This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and women’s bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbir..

Price: $64.99

Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic World (Plato's Stepchildren)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:41:15 +0000

This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment to comprehensively unveil, explore, and celebrate disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world through a critical examination of art, artefacts, texts, and human remains.<..

Price: $64.99