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  • Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment

    The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edited by James Kennaway, Rina Knoeff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Fate of Anatomical Collections

    by Rina Knoeff, Robert Zwijnenberg ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them. In many institutions these collections are well-preserved, but in others they are poorly maintained and rendered inaccessible to medical and other audiences. This volume explores the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • History of Medicine

    by Rebecca Greene ...
    In this comprehensive and stimulating volume, the history of medicine is approached from a variety of perspectives to develop a well-rounded, objective overview. Historians examine the effects of society on medicine and of medicine on society and trace transformations in the the thought and practices of the medical and allied professions. History of Medicine explores the practice and philosophy of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Stand Up Straight!

    A History of Posture

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise and illness, and shift as we age. Our attitudes to bodies, and especially to posture – how people hold themselves, how they move – are also fluid. Our stance and gait are interpreted as healthy or ill, able or disabled, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. In Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Fearing the Black Body

    The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    by Sabrina Strings ...
    Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Through the Darkness

    Glimpses into the History of Western Medicine

    by Monica-Maria Stapelberg ...
    The fascinating history of medicine in Europe is filled with curious, often bizarre, strange, and gruesome cures, enthusiastically espoused by physicians and other medical practitioners of the times. Repulsive and disgusting examples of ‘medications’ often dominated treatment directives and many proposed cures were all but useless, highly dangerous and even lethal.This book explores compelling, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness

    by Ivan Illich ...
    Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination without which life in unthinkable. He deals with the dual nature of water, as life-giving material substance and as the wellspring of forml, on which are founded the most basic myths and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    A magisterial work of intellectual history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Blood and Guts

    A Short History of Medicine

    by Roy Porter ...
    "Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty." —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New RepublicAn eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • 19th Century Europe

    A Cultural History

    by Hannu Salmi ...
    Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is a lucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of history and culture and the ... Read more

    $19.00 USD