Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern british medicine and culture

This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants.

Germs and governance

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 explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infectio...

Rethinking modern prostheses in anglo-american commodity cultures, 1820–1939

A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth.

Framing the moron

Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated.

Migrant architects of the nhs

Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.

Histories of nursing practice

Contains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing, with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work

Representations of hiv and aids

Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS into highly visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.

Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015

Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions.

Physick and the family

Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales

Communicating the history of medicine

Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of e...

The english system

A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century

Jewish refugees and the british nursing profession

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing.

Mental health nursing

Seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

Managing diabetes, managing medicine

Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine.

The malleable body

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 bod...

Alcohol, psychiatry and society

The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in ...

Brutal treatments

This book explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used th...

Responsible citizens

‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population.

How to get into medical school in australia

‘How to Get into Medical School in Australia’ is the definitive guide on how to succeed in your application to medical school – and how to excel once there.

Tobacco control in africa

This collection is an important contribution to the literature on global public health and international development, featuring the  most comprehensive evidence-based analysis of tobacco policy in the African region.

Ghostbodies

How is illness represented in today's cultural texts? In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost – because it does not always fit society's definition of disability. In these pages, she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion...

Medical multimedia

Visual language for the world wide web

Linking the hieroglyphs of ancient Mayan and Sumerian culture with icons on the modern computer interface, this book shows that human visual communication has come full circle from the earliest representations. Honeywill's analysis shows how ancient visual languages now serve as a source for rene...

The grey zone of health and illness

In this book, Alan Blum outlines a nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care posits it as a sort of state of permanent emergency. To move beyond that will require a complete rethinking of heal...

Citizen voices

Citizen Voices explores the ways in which citizen voices on science and environmental issues are articulated, heard, marginalized and silenced in mass media, policymaking, and other public venues. In a range of case studies from countries across Europe and North America, contributors offer empiri...