Medical / Medical History & Records

Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility

by Narin Hassan

Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and...

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

by Christopher Pittard

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fiction in the 1880s and 1890s...

Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature

by Mary McAlpin

In her study of the literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration....

Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction

by Kirk D. Read

The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political...

Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

by Bernadette Höfer

In this innovative and ambitious study, Bernadette Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine reverse the Cartesian conception of the dominance of the rational and propose instead a dramatic...

Plague Hospitals: Illness and Isolation in Early Modern Venice

by L. Stevens Crawshaw

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what...

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

by Pender & S. Struever

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses...

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough

by John J. Ross, MD

The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. He was sleek and prosperous, with a dainty goatee. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane...

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle

by Anne Van Arsdall & Timothy Graham

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy, honoring John M. Riddle, a pioneer...

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual

by Paul Kopperman

In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, a recently retired medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript, 'Regimental Practice, or a Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse...

Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System Version 2.5, 2nd Edition: User's Guide

by Virginia Saba

The Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System, a national nursing standard, is a respected resource for documenting patient and nursing care plans for the electronic health record (EHR). It provides a set of...

Schaum's Outline of Medical Charting

by James Keogh

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately, there's Schaum's.

More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum'sto help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key...

A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth

by Tania McIntosh

People are fascinated by stories of childbirth, and the sources to document maternity in Britain in the twentieth century are rich and varied. This book puts the history of maternity in England into its wider...