This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great 'social evil', prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltrated respectable homes and brought terrible suffering and stigma to those afflicted. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases takes us back to an age before penicillin and the NHS, when developments in...
This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public...
This edited volume draws historians, anthropologists and archaeologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal.
This edited volume draws historians, anthropologists and archaeologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposa...
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as `human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals t...
This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s - through the dictatorship to democratic transition - explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s - through the dictatorship to democratic transition - expl...
In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era.
In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our under...
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as `human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine.
In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals t...
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability.
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth cent...
