The Eugenics Movement

An International Perspective

Edited by Pauline Mazumdar

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36871-1 (Routledge)

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Financing Medicine

The British Experience Since 1750

Edited by Martin Gorsky, Sally Sheard

Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35025-9 (Routledge)

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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

Bodies, Images and Experiences

Edited by David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg

Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36098-2 (Routledge)

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Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

A Dark Epilogue

By Niall Johnson

Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36560-4 (Routledge)

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The Politics of Madness

The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914

By Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.

Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30174-9 (Routledge)

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Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850

Finding A Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom

Edited by Pamela Dale, Joseph Melling

Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36491-1 (Routledge)

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The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

Essays on the History of Psychiatry

By Andrew Scull

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77006-4 (Routledge)

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Anadenanthera

Visionary Plant of Ancient South America

By Constantino M. Torres, David B. Repke

A multidisciplinary study of pre-Columbian South America—centering on the psychoactive plant genus Anadenanthera

As cultures formed and evolved in pre-Columbian South America, Anadenanthera became...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-2642-2 (Routledge)

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The Risks of Medical Innovation

Risk Perception and Assessment in Historical Context

Edited by Thomas Schlich, Ulrich Tröhler

The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine.

Presenting a new way of thinking about these...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33481-5 (Routledge)

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Disability in Medieval Europe

Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400

By Irina Metzler

This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36503-1 (Routledge)

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