(Hardback)
By: Victoria Bates
ISBN: 9781526168511
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...
This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Stanley-Baker
ISBN: 9781526191120
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...
This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains.
(Paperback)
By: Heidi Hausse
ISBN: 9781526190833
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...
This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Crook
ISBN: 9781526140128
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...
How did the experiences and emotions of unhappy mothers come to light in postwar Britain This history looks at the role of five communities in drawing attention to the struggles of early mothering, unpicking the professional, political and social motivations that drove efforts to break silences around this critical subject.
(Paperback)
By: Tommy Dickinson
ISBN: 9781784993580
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive treatment for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.
(Hardback)
By: Marion Andrea Schmidt
ISBN: 9781526138170
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...
How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities.
(Hardback)
By: Mones Abu-Asab
ISBN: 9781594774324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
See more...
The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology
(Paperback, Main)
By: Caroline Vout
ISBN: 9781788162913
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
See more...
A Spectator and Sunday Times Book of the Year, Exposed is the story of the Greek and Roman body - in all its (surprisingly human) glory
(Paperback)
By: Michael Farthing
ISBN: 9781912690473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
See more...
A British doctor's experiences and reflections on independent, post-colonial India over 50 years and the nation's continuing influence on contemporary British life and culture.
(Hardback)
By: Lydia Kang
ISBN: 9781523513291
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th November 2021
Publisher: Workman Publishing
See more...
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on the science, culture, and cures for different types of epidemics and pandemics. Popular reading on a timely topic.
(Hardback)
By: Lydia Kang
ISBN: 9780761189817
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2017
Publisher: Workman Publishing
See more...
A tour of medicine's most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 35 "treatments", exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour - some more recently than you might think.
(Hardback)
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
ISBN: 9780241389379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Olivia Campbell
ISBN: 9781800752481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th July 2023
Publisher: Swift Press
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Mike Jay
ISBN: 9780500297940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Sheryl Persson
ISBN: 9781921497063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
See more...
SMALLPOX, SYPHILIS AND SALVATION uncovers the compelling stories of the men and women, innovations and accidents that have led to diseases from polio to syphilis, diphtheria to diabetes, tetanus to leukaemia no longer being the death sentences they once were. It also sounds a note of warning for some of these diseases are fighting back.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Hager
ISBN: 9781419735226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2020
Publisher: Abrams
See more...
By: Professor David Bolt
ISBN: 9781350436763
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Dr D. Christopher Gabbard
ISBN: 9781350436732
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Professor Joyce L. Huff
ISBN: 9781350436725
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Dr Jonathan Hsy
ISBN: 9781350436756
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Professor David T. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781350436671
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Dr Susan Anderson
ISBN: 9781350436749
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
By: Roger Cooter
ISBN: 9781350451643
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of medicine from antiquity through to the 21st century.
(Hardback)
By: Iona McCleery
ISBN: 9781472569936
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
