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A Nearly Normal Life
Little, Brown and Company 2013; US$ 9.99In the summer of 1953 the author was a carefree, athletic boy of fourteen. But after he collapsed during a school dance one night, he was suddenly bedridden, drifting in & out of consciousness, as his body disintegrated into a shadow of its former self. He had been stricken with spinal polio. When he emerged from the grip of the disease, he was confronted... more...
Permanent Present Tense
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableIn Permanent Present Tense Suzanne Corkin tells the incredible story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison - known only as H.M. until his death in 2008 - and what he taught medical science, neuroscience and the world. In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his... more...
Acres of Skin
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. more...
Professions and the Public Interest
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 58.95The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and the Public Interest Mike Saks develops a theoretical... more...
Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day
Wiley 2013; US$ 29.95In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. more...
Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 16651789
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread... more...
Medical Marginality in South Asia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 155.00Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ?subaltern therapeutics? that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite... more...
The Making of Modern Science
Wiley 2013; US$ 38.95Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word ‘scientist’ was coined; forty years later science (increasingly... more...
Therapeutic Revolutions
Rutgers University Press 2013; US$ 36.95Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided... more...
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively... more...









