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A narrative history of man's struggle with the infirmities of his body, from Aesculapius to AIDS.

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From the bestselling author of The Queens Conjuror, comes the story of Nicholas Culpeper legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and author of the great Herbal. This is a powerful history of medicines first freedom fighter set in London during Britains age of revolution.

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Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volumes two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victims presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden or pain experienced by the watching audience.

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Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volumes two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victims presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden or pain experienced by the watching audience.

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A neurological consultant at a California state hospital, Schain explores the causes of the insanity that suddenly came upon the German philosopher at age 44, early in 1889, a topic frequently discussed in German literature of the early 20th century but little thought of since. Doctors at the time d

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The first history of bioethics in Britain -- .

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Proctor studies the connections between the "normal" and the "monstrous" aspects of Nazi science and policy, to explain the horror of fascism, and its appeal even to otherwise right-thinking Germans.

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Charts the significance and impact of the human nose across different cultures throughout history, identifying its place in anthropology, art, health, sex, science, and other fields while considering its role in big business, from plastic surgery to allergies. Reprint.

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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

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This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol,

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Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. By focusing on the history of hospital gardens in England, Hickman adds a new dimension to current concerns regarding the therapeutic environment. -- .

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Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in hagiography and legend. Jacalyn Duffin's fascinating new biography relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of p

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Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more acceptable. -- .

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Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. -- .

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An examination of the ever-shifting boundary between scientific medicine and quackery.

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Charts doctors and students as reformers, bureaucrats and subjects of social and cultural forces