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Medicine and Disease

Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr
Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, but the interpretative methods used by the two groups are often quite different and interdisciplinary discussion is rare. The papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, to widen the field of interpretation, and to reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and prac. ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

In Good Health: Philosophical-Theological Analysis of the Concept of Health in Contemporary Medical Ethics
by Almut Caspary
Health is a value-laden concept. The state of being that it designates is a fundamental human goal. As a value, the concept is normative, governing both clinical practice and the therapeutic treatment developed by medical research. Additionally, the promise of health plays a pivotal role in health-policy discourse. Almut Caspary considers philosophical and theological concepts of health in the context of its practical significance, both in the ...
Hardback. Price US$67.00

Ärzte in der Antike
by Heike Achner
English summary: This volume invites the reader to investigate a fascinating aspect of Ancient life.

Humanity's drive to explain and heal illnesses created concepts of health that today might seem weird, but in some cases also quite ...
Hardback. Price US$45.00

150 Jahre Pfalzklinikum: Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde in Klingenmünster
edited by Reinhard Steinberg and Monika Pritzel
German description: 1857 begann die wechselvolle Geschichte der Psychiatrie in Klingenmünster. Ihr Patientenarchiv blieb bis heute fast lückenlos erhalten, so dass sich hier die Entwicklung einer Kreisirrenanstalt zum modernen Fachkrankenhaus und die Transformation einer lokalen Grossinstitution in regionale Angebote in der Pfalz exemplarisch nachvollziehen lässt.Themenschwerpunkte der Autorinnen und Autoren bilden dabei das ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$84.00

Faszinosum des Verborgenen: Der Harnstein und die (Re-)Präsentation des Unsichtbaren in der Urologie
edited by Heiner Fangerau and Irmgard Müller
English summary: The (Re-) presentation of the unseen represents a classical problem of medicine, which even today has not lost its appeal. From the historical perspective, it reads as one of the central questions, to what extent the production and representation of medical knowledge are interdependent. Already the urological technology, which is numbered among the first medical subject areas to make the visible the invisible, lends itself ...
Paperback. Price US$48.00

Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, reflections and actions
edited by Heiner Fangerau, Rethy K. Chhem, Irmgard Müller and Shih-Chang Wang
Medical Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and practice. At the same time imaging in its broadest sense, including illustration, diagramming, model-making, photography and other forms of image rendering, has a long tradition in medicine. Imaging has served different purposes ranging from depicting to backing concepts or creating convincing evidence. Thus, imaging the human body has different aspects not only related ...
Paperback. Price US$57.00

Split-Brain-Forschung und ihre Folgen: Medizin - Geschichte - Populärwissenschaft
by Kathrin Lieb
English summary: In the 1960's and 1970's Neurosurgeons cut the corpus callosum, the largest commissure in the brain, in order to reduce the frequency of seizures in epileptic patients. Psychologists like Roger Sperry gained information from subsequent research of the patients concerning the distinctions of the left and right halves of the brain. Sperry would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and with that accolade ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00

Das Tagebuch der jüdischen Kriegskrankenschwester Rosa Bendit 1914 bis 1917
edited by Susanne Ruess and Astrid Stölzle
German description: Die jüdische Krankenschwester Rosa Bendit arbeitete als Angehörige der sog. äfreiwilligen Krankenpflege in den Kriegslazaretten des Ersten Weltkrieges. Ihr Einsatz, der drei Jahre dauern sollte, führte sie von Breisach an der französischen Grenze nach Serbien, Frankreich und wieder in den Osten nach Rumänien. Der Besonderheit ihres Tuns bewusst, verfasste sie, wie viele ihrer Kolleginnen ...
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Zwischen Familie, Heilern und Fürsorge: Das Bewältigungsverhalten von Epileptikern in deutschsprachigen Gebieten des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts
by Angelika Schattner
English summary: The notion that epileptics were held as demoniacs or persecuted as witches in the medieval and early modern periods is a widely disseminated misconception today. The traditional historical research into epilepsy has done little until now to correct this issue; it has concentrated on research into medical discourses, without taking up the question of the contemporary handling of the disease and care for patients. This is ...
Paperback. Price US$69.00

Bildungskonzepte der Krankenpflege in der Weimarer Republik: Die Schwesternschaft des Evangelischen Diakonievereins e.V., Berlin-Zehlendorf
by Ulrike Gaida
English summary: What effect did the political and economic conditions of the years between the World Wars have on employees in health care, especially on Protestant nurses? Was there such a thing as the typical Protestant nurse? What, then, distinguishes them? These are the questions Ulrike Gaida addresses, with a focus on the sisterhood of the Evangelical Diakonia e.V. in Berlin. Based on empirical data from the training classes of 1918 ...
Paperback. Price US$77.00