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Misery to Mirth: Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England
The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the…
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism…
Manipulating practices: A critical physiotherapy reader
Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network…
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical…
Like Any Other Woman The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer
Like Any Other Woman speaks to the suffering that cancer causes, and to the profound human experience of renegotiating the physical and emotional balance between sickness and health when that balance is tipped by the onset of disease. A profound and…
Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development
molecular medicine; immunology; cell biology
High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation
Pharmacology/Toxicology; Molecular Medicine; Human Physiology; Immunology; Cell Biology
Global Health Collaboration: Challenges and Lessons
global health collaboration; global health education; urban health; multiple morbidities; global health research; international university partnerships; sustainability; public health; multi-morbidity; transcultural; interdisciplinary and…
Chapter 23 Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and…
Chapter 21 Medical privacy and big data A further reason in favour of public universal healthcare coverage
This This chapter aims to explore the challenge that big data brings to medical privacy. Section I offers a brief overview of the role of privacy in medical settings. I define define privacy as having one’s personal information and one’s personal…