This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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...
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 opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research based, historical scrutiny. It examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences which shaped it in the post war years...
This fascinating work brings to light the groundbreaking achievements of unsung American heroes working to preserve life while the country was in bloody turmoil. You will come to understand the medical purveying system of the time and its problems, and you will witness the birth, growth, and remarka..
This fascinating work brings to light the groundbreaking achievements of unsung American heroes working to preserve life while the country was in bloody turmoil. You will come to understand the medical purveying system of the time and its problems, and you will witness the birth, growth, and remarka..
Platt draws equally from the works of historians and archaeologists to put forward a stimulating and illuminating characterisation of the period. Handsomely produced and generously illlustrated...
Platt draws equally from the works of historians and archaeologists to put forward a stimulating and illuminating characterisation of the period. Handsomely produced and generously illlustrated...
H G Koenigsberger's absorbing account begins with the disintegration of the western Roman Empire and traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. He covers the Islamic, Byzantine and Central Asian worlds in his account which..
H G Koenigsberger's absorbing account begins with the disintegration of the western Roman Empire and traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. He covers the Islamic, Byzantine and Central Asian worlds in his account which..