Facets

2008

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

2008

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

2008

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

2009

#8428

The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.

2009

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2009

#10573

The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.

2011

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

2012

#8105

The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.

The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.

2013

#10541

Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.

The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…

2014

#10171

Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.

2015

#10969

Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.

A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

2017

#9882

Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.

"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …

2021

#14104

Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.

"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcu…