In Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Darrel Amundsen explores the disputed boundaries of medicine and Christianity by focusing on the principle of the sanctity of human life, including the duty to treat or attempt to sustain the life of the ill. As he examines his themes and moves from text to context, Amundsen ......
Presents an introduction to eighteenth-century science and its metaphor for scientific superstitions and politics. This book describes Mary Toft's story which contains perennial themes: science and superstition separated by the flimsiest of curtains, justice and morality, crime and punishment, and the basic fears at the core of human nature.
Official Journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the ......
Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926
In Bodies of Evidence, Ian Burney offers an important reinterpretation of the role of the scientific expert in the modern democratic state. At the core of this study lies the coroner's inquestthe ancient tribunal in English law held to account for cases of unexplained death. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representatives of ......
''Haiken has written a humane, balanced history of cosmetic surgery, drawing with sensitivity and deftness on impressive archival sources, including surgeons' folders on prospective patients . . . Her book is a first-class exercise in medical history, raising intriguing questions about normalization, ideological manipulation, gender, ethnicity, ......
Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996''[Marsh and Ronner make for] a highly successful combination in which faultless clinical detail and a broad social and cultural approach are seamlessly woven to produce a very impressive and beautifully written historical work of the first importance.''Irvine Louden, Journal of ......
''Humphreys is to be commended for a job well done. This superior study exhibits the canons of historical scholarship at their finest. The thesis is clearly stated and convincingly explicated. The research is exhaustive. The writing is felicitous and compelling. There is no hint of bias. The work will appeal to a wide audience, including ......
Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
''Boldly and skillfully, Wailoo analyzes not only the role of physicians but of research hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. In addition, he shows how things like race, gender, and lifestyle influenced how physicians defined and responded to the very diseases that were called into existence by the new technologies they employed.''--James H. ......
''Stevens brilliantly views the hospital as a prism of the values and mores of society . . . She sees the stratification of the hospital population into private, semi-private, and charity patients as a manifestation of the social stratifications of American society.''--Reviews in American History American hospitals are unique: a combination of ......
