Published June, 2022
By Sophie Vasset
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns. -- .

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Published June, 2022
By Amrita Pande
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book analyses the world of selective reproduction - interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition - by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies. -- .

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Published June, 2022
By Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation. -- .

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Published May, 2022
By James Moran
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .

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Published February, 2022
By Michael Robinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .

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Published February, 2022
By Richard Bates
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the life and career of popular French psychoanalyst Francoise Dolto (1908-88). It connects her rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society. -- .

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Published January, 2022
By Emily Cock
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

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Published November, 2021
By Carol Helmstadter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft. -- .

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Published October, 2021
By Benoit Majerus and Joris Vandendriessche
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- .

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Published September, 2021
By Jessica Meyer and Anne Hanley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery. -- .

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