Medicine & Disease
The archaeology and cultural backdrop to the study of medicine and disease from the ancient world to the present day.
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Zwischen Familie, Heilern und Fuersorge: Das Bewältigungsverhalten von Epileptikern in deutschsprachigen Gebieten des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts [Paperback]
Angelika Schattner (Author)
$69.00ISBN: 9783515099479
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte - Beihefte (MEDGG-B)
Volume: 42
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 li... .... Learn More -
Split-Brain-Forschung und ihre Folgen: Medizin - Geschichte - Populärwissenschaft [Hardback]
Kathrin Lieb (Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9783515099370
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin. History and Philosophy of Medicine
Volume: 11
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 fro... .... Learn More -
Zwangssterilisationen im Dritten Reich 1933-1945: Das Schicksal der Opfer am Beispiel der Frauenklinik des Städtischen Krankenhauses und der Hebammenlehranstalt Mainz [Paperback]
Frederic Ruckert (Author)
$42.00ISBN: 9783515101073
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Neue Folge - Zeitzeugenerinnerungen
Volume: 10
English summary: As a consequence of the laws for contraception, roughly 360,000 people, categorized as hereditarily diseased offspring, were forcibly sterilized in Germany between 1933 and 1945. What human stories took place behind this fr... .... Learn More -
Faszinosum des Verborgenen: Der Harnstein und die (Re-)Präsentation des Unsichtbaren in der Urologie [Paperback]
Heiner Fangerau (Editor); Irmgard Muller (Editor)
$48.00ISBN: 9783515100342
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Kulturanamnesen
Volume: 2
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 produc... .... Learn More -
Medikale Subkulturen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und ihre Gegner (1950-1990): Die Zentrale zur Bekämpfung der Unlauterkeit im Heilgewerbe [Paperback]
Florian Mildenberger (Author)
$54.00ISBN: 9783515100410
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte - Beihefte (MEDGG-B)
Volume: 41
English summary: Beyond the medical prescriptions, which the pharmaceutical product line of pharmacies and the offers of state approved health practitioners gave and gives, there is a broad offer on bottom-shelf goods of a pharmaceutical ty... .... Learn More -
Deszendenztheorie und Darwinismus in den Wissenschaften vom Menschen [Paperback]
Hans-Klaus Keul (Editor); Matthis Krischel (Editor)
$48.00ISBN: 9783515099219
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Kulturanamnesen
Volume: 1
English summary: How did Darwin's Theory of Evolution situate itself in the context of the culture of the modern period? The contributors to this volume concern themselves with the history and meaning of the theory of evolution in the human... .... Learn More -
Investigation into Dynamics of Ancient Egyptian Pharmacology: A Statistical Analysis of Papyrus Ebers and Cross-cultural Medical Thinking [Paperback]
Shingo Fukagawa (Author)
$77.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781407308463
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A study that investigates the validity of analysing the distribution pattern of materials in the Ebers Papyrus involves a range of discussion that often requires quite different areas of expertise such as Egyptian philology, ancient and traditi... .... Learn More -
Mal d'arte: Patologo tra gli artisti [Paperback]
Weber Giorgio (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9788856401509
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Cronaca e storia
English description: Giorgio Weber's years of medical practice and publications give him a unique perspective on art. In these texts Weber turns his scientific eye on images and iconography of medicine, investigating the corporeal prese... .... Learn More -
Gesundheit und Krankheit im Spiegel von Petitionen an den Landtag von Baden-Wuerttemberg 1946 bis 1980 [Paperback]
Sylvelin HahnerRombach (Author)
$57.00ISBN: 9783515099141
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte - Beihefte (MEDGG-B)
Volume: 40
English summary: The basic right to submit a petition has been exercised by increasingly more people since the end of the Second World War. Of the nearly 19,200 petitions filed with the state government of Baden-Wuerttemburg between 1946 an... .... Learn More -
Missionspharmazie: Konzepte, Praxis, Organisation und wissenschaftliche Ausstrahlung [Paperback]
Sabine Anagnostou (Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9783515099103
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Sudhoffs Archiv - Beihefte (SAr-B)
Volume: 60
English summary: What does pharmacy have to do with mission? This interdisciplinary study investigates the up til now little known but epoch-making "pharmacy mission," which missionaries developed in light of the poor patient care in many o... .... Learn More