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Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England
This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm …
The Nurse Apprentice, 1860–1977
The British apprenticeship model of nurse training, developed under Florence Nightingale’s influence from 1860 at St Thomas’s Hospital, gained national and world-wide recognition. …
The Making of the Dentiste, c. 1650-1760
The early decades of the eighteenth century saw the appearance of a completely new type of surgical practitioner in France: the dentiste. The use of this title was of the utmost …
A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier
One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we …
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj presents in detail Nightingale's involvement with India and Indians, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the …
Crafting Immunity
Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against …
Reinventing Hippocrates
The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While …
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of …
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe
Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this …
Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947
Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siècle period. A 'sleeping partner' of the bank and the …
The Return of Epidemics
Historians have long recognized epidemics to be a significant, though sometimes hidden, factor in the fortunes of societies and civilizations. The study of epidemics heightens our …
Justice to the Maimed Soldier
In the popular imagination, the notion of military medicine prior to the twentieth century is dominated by images of brutal ignorance, superstition and indifference. In an age …