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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 2364
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Imperial Bodies in London
Author: Kristin D. HusseyPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822988445
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, significantly reduced travel time for colonists and imperial servants traveling home to see their families, enjoy a period of study leave, or recuperate from the tropical climate. With their minds enervated by the sun, livers disrupted by the heat, and blood teeming with parasites, these patients brought the empire home and, in doing so, transformed medicine in Britain. With Imperial Bodies in London, Kristin D. Hussey offers a postcolonial history of medicine in London. Following mobile tropical bodies, her book challenges the idea of a uniquely domestic medical practice, arguing instead that British medicine was imperial medicine in the late Victorian era. Using the analytic tools of geography, she interrogates sites of encounter across the imperial metropolis to explore how medical research and practice were transformed and remade at the crossroads of empire.
Association Medical Journal
Author: Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: A List of Current Medical Periodicals and Allied Serials
Author: New York Academy of Medicine. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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London Local Government
Author: John HuntPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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British Medical Journal
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 2114
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Medical Examination of Schools and Scholars
Author: Theophilus Nicholas KelynackPublisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Schulhygiene.
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
Author: Lauren KassellPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians. He survived the plague, was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions, distilled strong waters made from beer, herbs, and sometimes chemical ingredients, pursued the philosopher's stone in experiments and ancient texts, and when he was fortunate spoke with angels. He wrote compulsively, documenting his life and protesting his expertise in thousands of pages of notes and treatises. This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of his notorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.
Shaping health policy
Author: Exworthy, MarkPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447306198
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The collection explores and promotes the case-study as an under-used method and thereby encourages a more reflective approach to policy learning by practitioners and academics. The book will appeal to under-graduates, post-graduates and academics in social policy, public management and health services research.
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