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The Hidden Affliction
Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies …
Health and Zionism
An exploration of the major conflicts and historic events that shaped the current Israeli health care system. In this follow-up to her 2002 book, The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz, …
Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968
Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Toward the middle of the twentieth …
Of Life and Limb
Examining the history of arterial repair, Of Life and Limb investigates the process of surgical innovation by exploring the social, technological, institutional, and martial …
Setting Nutritional Standards
Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Suzanne Junod's …
The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences
How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience? This …
Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850-2015
Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that region The Baltic Sea region in northern Europe, …
Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition
Examines the ongoing, worldwide epidemiological transition from acute infectious diseases to chronic diseases as the predominant causes of death, presenting a new theory on how …
Intrusive Interventions
Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public …
Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century
This edited volume brings together leading scholars to explore the emergence of the stress concept and its ever-changing definitions since the 1940s. Stress is one of the most …
Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville
This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague. Plague and Public Health in Early …
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national …