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Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History

Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History


Hardcover, 344 pages, release 2003-10-03
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 1403912920

Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these mea…


Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia...

Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930


Hardcover, 288 pages, release 2001-12-18
Irina Sirotkina
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801867827

Medicine Culture
As Irina Sirotkina points out, the Russian intelligentsia has always granted an exalted role to literature and literati. By exploring Russian psychiatrists' changing diagnoses of the country's most fa…

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In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-To-Die in America

In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-To-Die in America


Hardcover, 282 pages, release 1998-01-01
Peter G. Filene
Ivan R Dee
ISBN: 1566631882

As we think about how we hope to die, writes Peter Filene, we need to take into account the perspectives of history and culture. They will help us understand the ambiguities that await us and the choi…

Review: Helps readers with hard decisions about beloved that one death
In The arms of other an extremely moving history of people including the Quinlan is a family, the tormenting decisions have turned back whether to continue, to maintain life support…


A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000

A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000


Hardcover, 224 pages, release 2004-08-12
Clare Hanson
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 033398644X

Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy…

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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis


Paperback, 376 pages, release 2003-01-28
David M. Friedman
Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 0142002593

David M. Friedman's A Mind of Its Own is a cultural examination of the penis, from ancient Sumer to the present. Friedman convincingly suggests that humankind's various and contradictory attitudes tow…

Review: Interesting historiography
An opinion of his Own* started fantastically to themselves with it opening, as witches were burnt, in order to have, Nevertheless, contact with the pole of the devil, the end of the book was not completely as big, stopping…


Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History

Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History


Hardcover, 493 pages, release 1989-12-31
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
ISBN: 354050950X


Keyterms list: health, arrhythmia management in chagas disease, diabetic cookbook, cook for diabetes, sports science, raw food

Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History

Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History


Hardcover, 266 pages, release 2007-01-15
Rod Edmond
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865840

Cambridge Social Histories
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions…


Impotence: A Cultural History

Impotence: A Cultural History


Hardcover, 350 pages, release 2007-04-15
Angus McLaren
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226500764

As anyone who has watched television in recent years can attest, we live in the age of Viagra. From Bob Dole to Mike Ditka to late night comedians, our culture has been engaged in one long, frank and…

Review: A historical review of a problem existing since long time
The powerlessness at an age which believed in the witchcraft had quite passed away from the powerlessness at an age which believed in the science. Thus Angus McLaren writes in the powerlessness: A cultural history…


The Wandering Womb: A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs About Woman

The Wandering Womb: A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs About Woman


Hardcover, 204 pages, release 1999-02
Lana Thompson
Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1573922641

Review: They must know the past to understand the present
I high recommend this book to both genders, especially medical students. There are many doctors today (men as well as women) who still treat and diagnose women as überemotionale dogs…


A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier

A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier


Hardcover, 396 pages, release 2003-02
Elizabeth A. Williams
Ashgate Publishing
ISBN: 0754608816

The Medicine Context

Keywords: c 1750 to c 1900, genetics of mitochondrial diseases, montpellier, nursing, europe, c 1700 to c 1800, france, history of medicine


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