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Published January, 2014
By Poonam Bala
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
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Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

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Published December, 2013
By Allan Beveridge and Katherine Webb
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The collection reveals a diverse selection of patient voices offering an immediate engagement with insanity and asylum life.

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Published December, 2013
By Frank Huisman and Harry Oosterhuis
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This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.

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Published October, 2013
By Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig
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The use of biologics - drugs made from living organisms - has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century.

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Published October, 2013
By Claire L. Jones
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By the late nineteenth century advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. Drawing on over 400 medical trade catalogues Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism.

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Published October, 2013
By Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Muller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden
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The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.

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Published October, 2013
By Rosemary Wall
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Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.

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Published September, 2013
By James F. Stark
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Stark offers a fresh perspective on the history of infectious disease. He examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance, and constructs a narrative that spans public, professional and geographic domains.

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Published September, 2013
By Linda Bryder and Janet Greenlees
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The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.

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Published August, 2013
By John Stewart
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Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance in this period and makes a significant contribution to the historiography.

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