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717 entries match Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090]
2012
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Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.
2012
#10294
The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.
"The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. Th…
2012
#11048
Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
2013
#7651
Fritz Kahn.
Text and captions in English, French and German.
2013
#7851
Medical saints: Cosmas and Damian in a postmodern world.
2013
#8250
Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.
2013
#9853
Medical visions: Producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies.
"Kirsten Ostherr focuses on moving images produced in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of images she considers are diverse and range from sober education films to televi…
2013
#10712
Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .
2013
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Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.
2014
#7664
Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.
2014
#8067
Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.
2014
#8160
Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2014
#8464
Medicine and religion: An historical introduction.
2014
#8705
Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).
Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.
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…
2014
#10097
Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…
2014
#11195
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …
2014
#11501
Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.
2014
#11745
Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.
2014
#12722
Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.
"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…
2014
#12783
Music and the nerves 1700-1900. Edited by James Kennway.
2014
#13528
Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.
2015
#7509
The technical image: A history of styles in scientific imagery.
2015
#8800
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
2015
#9476
The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.
Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
2015
#9818
The graphic medicine manifesto.
"...establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and M…
2015
#9870
Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
2015
#10116
The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.
"From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general pra…
2015
#10424
L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).
Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
2016
#7566
The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.
2016
#7861
Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.
2016
#9454
Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.
2016
#10420
Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.
"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…
2017
#8520
Osler Library Prints Collection.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…
2017
#8867
The beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Edited with commentaries by Eric A. Newman, Alfonso Araque, and Janet M. Dubinsky. Essays by Larry W. Swanson, Lyndel King, and Eric Himmel.
A spectacular volume reproducing Ramón y Cajal's drawings in very high quality, and with significant commentaries.
2017
#9591
History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal.
http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/ "The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Web Portal is designed to gather resources in medical humanities for students, scholars, physicians, and the general public fo…
2017
#9693
Frankenstein: Annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
2017
#9702
Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.
2017
#9828
Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.
"In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taki…
2017
#9849
Visualizing disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.
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, …
2017
#10305
The religion of chiropractic: Populist healing from America's heartland.
2017
#10536
Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period. Edited by Siama Bhayro and Catherine Rider.
2017
#12096
American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.
"Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called o…
2017
#12851
The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris.
2018
#10525
The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.
"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…
2018
#10776
Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.
2018
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Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.
"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…