Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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Phantom Plague(2022) KRISHNAN, VIDYAThe definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.Vezava: Trda31,36 € -
Drugs That Changed Our Minds(2018) SLATER, LAURENA fascinating narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs and the way in which they have shaped us from the author of Opening Skinner's Box.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
Maladies of Empire - How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine(2021) JIM DOWNSVezava: Trda42,27 € -
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine(2019) MORRIS THOMASVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Disability and the Victorians(2022)Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actionsVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Madness on Trial(2022) MORAN, JAMESThis book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .Vezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions(2022)The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activiVezava: Trda53,46 € -
Shell-Shocked British Army Veterans in Ireland, 1918-39(2022) ROBINSON, MICHAELThis study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by theVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Murky Waters(2022) VASSET, SOPHIEMurky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cuVezava: Trda129,20 € -
Feeling the Strain(2021) KIRBY, JILLBy examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Medicalising Borders(2021)Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western statesVezava: Trda136,80 € -
Global Health and the New World Order(2020)What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedicalVezava: Trda129,20 € -
Germs and Governance(2021)This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explVezava: Trda136,80 € -
Madness on Trial(2019) MORAN, JAMESThis book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .Vezava: Trda129,20 €
