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  • Music, Health and the Body

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    by Poonam Bala, Julia C. Basso, Fabian Cannizzo, James J. Chriss, Bamba Ndiaye, Justin Patch, Renya K. Ramirez, Noor Tasnim, Töres Theorell, Kenneth H. Wilson0, Farren Yero1 ...
    Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also has highlighted the significance of social and individual factors in people’s perception of and ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

    by Poonam Bala, Russel Viljoen, Sahara Ahmed, Mark Briskey, Apalak Das, Sohini Das, Suvankar Dey, Mathew Franco, Amina Issa0, Vicki Luker1, Saurav Kumar Rai2, Jeff Ramsay3, Arabinda Samanta4, Jacob Steere-Williams5, Elizabeth Van Heynigen6 ...
    The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting colonial ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Contesting Colonial Authority

    Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India

    by Poonam Bala, Madhulika Banerjee, Cristiana Bastos, Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary, Shamshad Khan, Sean Lang, Atsuko Naono, Neshat Quaiser, Arabinda Samanta ...
    Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Medicine and Colonialism

    Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa

    Edited by Poonam Bala ...
    Series series Empires in Perspective
    Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories. ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

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    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hearing Voices

    The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

    by Simon McCarthy-Jones ...
    The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication. Those hearing voices have been viewed as mystics, potential psychiatric patients or simply just ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Disease in the History of Modern Latin America

    From Malaria to AIDS

    by Nancy Lews Stepan, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Marilia Coutinho ...
    Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

    The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound

    by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming ...
    How engineers and clinicians developed the ultrasound diagnostic scanner and how its use in obstetrics became controversial.To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven by the technological enthusiasms of doctors and engineers (and the commercial interests of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Newfoundland Drugstores

    A History

    by John K. Crellin ...
    Although primarily associated with filling doctors' prescriptions and selling medicines and other items for self-care, historically drugstores have also been operated as general stores, selling an intriguing range of toiletries, perfumery, confectionery, seeds for the garden, and household items. For many years, the shopping experiences of customers owed a good deal to the distinctive drugstore ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Medical Wisdom and Doctoring

    The Art of 21st Century Practice

    by Robert Taylor ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential. This book details the lessons every physician should have learned in medical school but often didn't, as well as classic insights and examples from current ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • To Comfort Always

    A history of palliative medicine since the nineteenth century

    by David Clark ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Histories
    Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987. One hundred years earlier, London based doctor William Munk published a treatise on 'easeful death' that mapped out the principles of practical, spiritual, and medical support at the end of life. In the intervening years a major process of development took place which led to innovative services, new approaches to the study and ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD