Medicine

In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed...

Motor development is an integral part of the developmental process. Understanding the organization of the...

The advent of tropical medicine was a direct consequence of European and American imperialism, when...

In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about...

The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is normally characterised in terms of...

The sixth edition of the Manual for Research Ethics Committees was first published in 2003,...

'If thinking about addiction is going to change, the study of excessive gambling is likely...

This collection of essays presents fresh interpretations of the growth of medico-legal ideas, institutions and...

Medicine has always had its historians; but until recently it was a history written by...

William Alexander Hammond, M. D. (1828–1900), one of the most successful American physicians of the...

East Coast fever is a lethal disease of cattle, caused by a parasite that multiplies...

In this unique study Fulford combines the disciplines of rigorous philosophy with an intimate knowledge...

The author draws extensively on the published research findings in child health psychology, and also...

Realistic yet encouraging, responsible yet wryly humorous, this is the book that all final-year medical...

Between the birth of the Third Republic and the outbreak of World War I, French...

This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France...

This collection brings together work in an important area that has become the focus of...

Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical teaching, medical knowledge, and medical authority in eighteenth-century...

During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery;...

The first modern survey of the long and fascinating history of the various ideas and...

How did doctors make a living? Making a Medical Living explores the neglected socio-economic history...

This volume demonstrates the value of interactions between neurology and the basic sciences that underpin...

Originally published in 1994, this was the first volume to look in depth at the...

This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman,...

The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of...

An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice,...

There has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition....

Understanding Mental Retardation constitutes a guide to research and theory for specialists and students alike....

This 1984 work examines concepts and strategies for using health care technology effectively and humanely...

This book summarises current studies which involve receptors and ligands in neurological disorders. The advance...

This book is about understanding and managing patients with severe personality disorders. It covers biological,...

First published in 1980 as the second edition of a 1965 original, this book was...

First published in 1979, this volume presents an elementary and, as far as is practicable,...

Mental disorders have profound social, cultural, and economic effects throughout the world. Although most psychiatry...

Originally published in 2006, this authoritative clinical handbook provides a detailed overview of the main...

This book was originally published in 1980. Owing to the increasing use of electronic instrumentation...

This book was first published in 2002. It presents an overview of ethnic and racial...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, many of which have been identified as potent human carcinogens, occur widely...

First published in 1982, this volume presents a conspectus of the opinions of twelve distinguished...

This 1986 volume is the fourth in the five-volume Handbook of Psychiatry. It is a...

This 1986 volume of the Handbook of Psychiatry covers that area of psychiatry contiguous with...

This book was originally published in 1983. Schizophrenic, paranoid, manic, depressive and autistic illnesses are...

The rise of the asylum constitutes one of the most profound, and controversial, events in...

Organ transplantation is an essential element of treatment for a wide range of diseases, but...

Originally published in 1985, Hormones and Human Behaviour provides an account of knowledge concerning the...