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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Published August, 2013
By Lynne Fallwell and Lynne Anne Fallwell
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Between the late 18th and the early 20th century, the industrialized world experienced a transition in birth practices. While in many countries this led to a separation of midwifery from modern medicine, in Germany new standards of health care were embraced. Fallwell's study explores this transition and sets it in its wider historical context.

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Published July, 2013
By Keir Waddington and David Cantor
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Contains the first ten books from the series.

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Published June, 2013
By Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston
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The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was dramatically increasing.

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Published May, 2013
By Mayumi Hayashi
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Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.

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Published May, 2013
By Marjo Kaartinen
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Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.

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Published April, 2013
By Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Patrick Siena
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Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

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Published January, 2013
By Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook and Barbara Leckie
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Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.

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Published August, 2012
By Bernard Harris
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Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state organizations in the development of welfare services. This study is particularly focused on the role of friendly societies and other insurance bodies in the provision of aid for the elderly and the sick.

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Published July, 2012
By David Walker, Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert and Professor Stuart Sim
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As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

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