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The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900
ISBN: 9781138662001 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience.
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programm...
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Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725-1970: Inmates and: Inmates and Environments
ISBN: 9781138662124 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was dramatically increasing.
The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutio...
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244,84 |
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The Care of Older People: England and Japan, a Comparative Study
ISBN: 9781138664784 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.
Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, usin...
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244,84 |
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The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700-1900
ISBN: 9781138664791 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for bodies over two centuries.
Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how t...
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293,81 |
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Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781138662292 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.
The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors e...
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279,12 |
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Bacteria in Britain, 1880-1939
ISBN: 9781138662308 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.
Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology ha...
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259,53 |
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Modern German Midwifery, 1885-1960
ISBN: 9781138664807 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a separation of midwifery from modern medicine, in Germany new standards of health care were embraced. Fallwell's study explores this transition and sets it in its wider historical context.
Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this l...
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279,12 |
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Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood
ISBN: 9781138662315 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance in this period and makes a significant contribution to the historiography.
Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare...
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171,37 |
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Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781138662971 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of biologics - drugs made from living organisms - has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century.
The use of biologics - drugs made from living organisms - has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained i...
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293,81 |
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The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781138662995 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for future health care which rested on a combination of voluntary and municipal provision.
Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of m...
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244,84 |
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Health and Citizenship: Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe
ISBN: 9781138662988 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.
This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state...
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244,84 |
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Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990
ISBN: 9781138663008 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.
The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred ye...
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257,72 |
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Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa
ISBN: 9781138663138 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.
Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity a...
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180,39 |
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Liberating Medicine, 1720-1835
ISBN: 9781138665118 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.
During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselv...
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Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9781138663824 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of the male body.
Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed a...
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279,12 |
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The General: A History of the Montreal General Hospital
ISBN: 9780773546851 / Angielski / Twarda / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Officially founded in 1819, the Montreal General Hospital is recognized as a pioneering institution in North America for the many discoveries in medical research made there and for its early association with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University - the first medical school in Canada. Covering nearly 200 years of history, The General relates the story of the hospital from its origins and founding to the transition and aftermath of its incorporation into the McGill University Health Centre in 1997. With contributions that show the perspectives of clinicians, nurses, surgeons, professors,...
Officially founded in 1819, the Montreal General Hospital is recognized as a pioneering institution in North America for the many discoveries in medic...
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Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
ISBN: 9780804797405 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This investigation produced one of the most substantial and innovative outpourings of scientific thought in early American history. But it also led to a heated and divisive debate--both political and theological--around the place of science in American society. Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds opens an important window onto the conduct... From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the dis... |
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The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
ISBN: 9781250105400 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it... At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of th... |
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Women of Mayo Clinic: The Founding Generation
ISBN: 9781681340005 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium therapy and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects of patient care, education, and research. While these women contributed to the clinic's origins and success, their roles have not been widely celebrated--until now.
Women of Mayo Clinic traces those early days from the perspectives of more than forty women--nurses, librarians, social... The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing...
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White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
ISBN: 9783319290539 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today the body s holy bone and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Munchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter s health. Read about legendary medical... This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today the body s hol... |
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