By Frances Garrett

This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion....

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

Edited by Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen

International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close...

Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge.

Health and the Modern Home

Edited by Mark Jackson

Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

Routledge Library Editions: Islam

By Various

Discussing the history and civilization of Islam from its origins until the late twentieth century, the volumes in this set examine the political and cultural...

Published November 27th 2007 by Routledge.

Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

By Helen M. Sweet, with Rona Dougall

This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935–1965

By Viviane Quirke

Examining the issue of 'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the...

Published October 8th 2007 by Routledge.

By Rosemary Elliot

The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century,...

Published September 7th 2007 by Routledge.

Spain, 1936–1939

By Nicholas Coni

This original work examines the differences in medical advances on the two sides of the Spanish Civil War. Covering all aspects of medical treatment during...

Published August 2nd 2007 by Routledge.

By Leonard Smith

Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context

Edited by James Moran, Leslie Topp, Jonathan Andrews

This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This...

Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.