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Decolonizing International Health : India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65
Sunil S. Amrith
Hardcover - $148.95
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Asia was at the heart of international efforts to create a new utopia: a world free from disease. Positioned at the unexplored boundary between international history and the history of colonial/postcolo ...
Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Darrel W. Amundsen
Paperback - $65.95
"Admundsen explores (the) tensions and compatibilities between medicine and Christianity, including suicide and early Christian values, caring and curing in the second century, medical deontology and pestilential disease in the late Middle Ages, and ...
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones : The American Medicine Show
Ann Anderson
Paperback - $75.95
This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys 19th century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with ...
Colonizing the Body
David Arnold
Paperback - $60.95
In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and t ...
Warm Climates and Western Medicine
David Arnold
Paperback - $84.95
These essays provide valuable insights into the early history of tropical medicine and from the standpoint of several European powers.
Health Care and the Rise of Christianity
Hector Avalos
Paperback - $21.95
"In "Health Care and the Rise of Christianity" Avalos helpfully turns our attention to the care of bodies as fundamental to the growth and expansion of early Christianity. Response to basic issues" such as cost, access to care, and perceived efficacy ...
The Codification of Medical Morality : Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nine
Baker
Paperback - $166.95
The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century Amer ...
Epidemic : The Past, Present and Future of the Diseases That Made Us
Dr Robert Baker
Paperback - $29.95
At the threshold of the third millennium, the human race is more vulnerable to mass epidemics than at any other time in history. Cases of bird flu, MRSA, influenza, and bioterrorism have never been higher. Differences in travel and social behavior sp ...
Disease and Democracy : The Industrialized World Faces AIDS
Peter Baldwin
Paperback - $53.95
"A historical masterpiece! Just when we thought we knew everything about the politics and policies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Peter Baldwin surprises us with innovative insights about the sharp differences in policy among countries as well as complex ...