Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This work provides a history and analyses the British experiences during that time. This is the first book to provide a total history of and seriously analyze the British experiences during the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 which killed 40 million people worldwide. Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide...
Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide...
This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact.
The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines - ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as...
This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken ...
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions.
These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent...
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using origi...
This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.
This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience ...
Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, Jackson exposes the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of the modern home and family became implicated in the maintenance of health and in the aetiology and pathogenesis of diverse psychological and physical conditions.
Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. D...
This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse's work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions of service and workload.
This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse's...
This volume looks at a number of types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world. Each chapter examines how health issues have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity. Challenging common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, the collection offers perspectives from a number of disciplines.
This volume looks at a number of types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world. Each chapter examines how health issu...
This text outlines the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Over the last decade, approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in most western countries; it has become one of the most fascinating and controversial areas in social policy today. This collection brings nine original essays together, spanning the Medieval period to the establishment of the National Health Service. Whilst contributing to a neglected field of social and medical history, the work also informs current debates.
This text outlines the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Over the last decade, approaches to learning disabilities have ...
Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This work provides a history and analyses the British experiences during that time.
Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide...
