For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people aff...

Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacoz...

This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concep...

Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French ...

Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communi...

Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of colle...

Germs and governance brings together leading historians, practitioners and policy makers t...

Examines the impact and importance of the health education film in Europe and North America in th...

The phrase global health appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic rese...

Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in I...

This bookoffers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as s...

At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic f...