The History of Medicine in Context
About the Book Series
For more than 20 years The History of Medicine in Context series, edited by Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell, provided a unique platform for the publication of research pertaining to the study of medicine from broad social, cultural, political, religious and intellectual perspectives. Offering cutting-edge scholarship on a range of medical subjects that cross chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries, the series consistently challenges received views about medical history and shows how medicine has had a much more pronounced effect on western society than is often acknowledged. As medical knowledge progresses, throwing up new challenges and moral dilemmas, The History of Medicine in Context series offers the opportunity to evaluate the shifting role and practice of medicine from the long perspective, not only providing a better understanding of the past, but often an intriguing perspective on the present.
The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany: Medicine and Botany
1st Edition
By Cristina Bellorini
September 30, 2021
In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly ...
Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Andrew Mendelsohn, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Ruth Schilling
June 30, 2021
Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities rivaled territorial states in local and...
From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Weindling
June 30, 2021
Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme ...
Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941: Protecting the Collective
1st Edition
By Christopher Williams
June 30, 2021
In the first book to chart late Imperial and Soviet health policy and its impact on the health of the collective in Russia’s former capital and second "regime" city, Christopher Williams argues that in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg radical sections of the medical profession and the Bolsheviks ...
The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections: Hands On, Hands Off
1st Edition
By Hieke Huistra
June 30, 2021
The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections starts where most stories end: after death. It tells the story of thousands of body parts kept in bottles and boxes in nineteenth-century Leiden – a story featuring a struggling medical student, more than one disappointed anatomist, a monstrous ...
Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Michael Stolberg
June 30, 2021
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was taught at the best universities. Leading...
Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola, Maria Conforti
December 12, 2019
Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different...
Plague, Print, and the Reformation: The German Reform of Healing, 1473�1573
1st Edition
By Erik A. Heinrichs
December 12, 2019
This book surveys a neglected set of sources, German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573, in order to explore the intertwined histories of plague, print, medicine and religion during the Reformation era. It argues that a particularly German reform of healing flourished in ...
Hospital Care and the British Standing Army, 1660–1714
1st Edition
By Eric Gruber von Arni
October 06, 2017
At the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, amongst the first acts of Charles II's government was the abolition of the New Model Army and the sweeping away of the legislation and institutions that had supported it, including most of the medical provisions provided by the republican regime. ...
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe
1st Edition
By Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham
June 29, 2017
The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are they a necessary presence for the true Christian to live the true Christian life? In the 18th and ...
The Making of the Dentiste, c. 1650-1760
1st Edition
By Roger King
June 29, 2017
The early decades of the eighteenth century saw the appearance of a completely new type of surgical practitioner in France: the dentiste. The use of this title was of the utmost significance, indicating not just the making of a new practitioner but of an entirely new practice - the dentiste was, ...
Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe
1st Edition
By Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham
May 16, 2017
Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century...