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This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship, addressing professional, social and ethical issues through research from eleven countries.
On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book applies the insights of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic, covering include the historiography, virology, demographic and its long-term effects.
Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing the central issues in the field.
In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day.
This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship, addressing professional, social and ethical issues through research from eleven countries.
On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book applies the insights of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic, covering include the historiography, virology, demographic and its long-term effects.
This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.
Focusing on the field of disability history, this book explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveals the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.
This study sets out to examine the implications of Foucault's work for students and researchers in a wide selection of areas in the social and human sciences.
Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.
This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative.
Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 brings together current critical research into the role played by racial ideas in the production of medical knowledge, throwing new light on three centuries of racial and medical history.
The first book to focus on belief, culture and healing in the past; the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of asylum doctors, to church archives and oral evidence.
This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. An examination of social attitudes to sexuality, class, gender, generation and race.
A volume of essays that is devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space.
Includes information on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane. This volume challenges scholarship, and focuses on a range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.
Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this text seeks to provide a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in the 20th century.
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across the range of social sciences.
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