Facets

2000

#8628

Medicina in nummis, 1974-1994: Hungarian coins and medals related to medicine.

2000

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

2001

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2004

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

2004

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2006

#9873

Miracles in Enlightenment England.

Chapter 3: Miracle workers dn healers. Chapter 4: Valentine Greatrakes and the New Philosophy, etc.

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…

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2014

#8897

Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la révolution à nos jours. 3 vols. Edited by Lisa Dumusay-Queffélec and Hélène Spengler.

2014

#9703

Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.

2014

#9845

Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.

"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…

2015

#9870

Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.

2017

#9702

Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.

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, …