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“prof olivia weisser”

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  • Ill Composed

    Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

    by Prof. Olivia Weisser ...
    In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early ... Read more

    $93.49 CAD

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  • The Great Plague of London

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, ‘a most terrible plague broke out, that depopulated the city of London, ruined the trade of ... Read more

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  • Forensic Medicine in Western Society

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    by Katherine D. Watson ...
    The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative perspective on the changing nature of the relationship between medicine, law and society, it examines the ... Read more

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  • Celestial Lancets

    A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa

    by Gwei-Djen Lu, Joseph Needham ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the implantation of very thin needles into subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle at a great number of different points on the body's surface; moxibustion is the burning of Artemisia tinder (moxa) either ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

    by Helen King ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth ... Read more

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  • Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain

    by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints ... Read more

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  • Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education

    by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, Abraham Fuks ...
    The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care). Approximately 15 years ago, a team of physicians and administrators sought to take this further: by considering the very nature of medical ... Read more

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  • Strange Blooms

    The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants

    by Jennifer Potter ...
    Now in paperback, this beautifully written and gorgeously produced book describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son. In 17th-century Britain, a new breed of "curious" gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change—as gardeners, as ... Read more

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  • Observations on Madness and Melancholy

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    by John Haslam, Fiona Dixon ...
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  • Melancholy and the Care of the Soul

    Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England

    by Jeremy Schmidt ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical ... Read more

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  • The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany

    Medicine and Botany

    by Cristina Bellorini ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD