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Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production
Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to…
Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
Publishing Addiction Science is a comprehensive guide for addiction scientists facing the complex process of contributing to scholarly journals. Written by an international group of addiction journal editors and their colleagues, it discusses how to…
Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education: A Method for Preclinical Students
assessment of clinical reasoning; diagnostic bias; diagnostic errors; dual process theory; scripts; medical problem-solving; peer teaching; problem-based learning; semantic qualifiers
Misery to Mirth: Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England
The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the…
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism…
Manipulating practices: A critical physiotherapy reader
Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network…
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1858
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical…
Like Any Other Woman The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer
Like Any Other Woman speaks to the suffering that cancer causes, and to the profound human experience of renegotiating the physical and emotional balance between sickness and health when that balance is tipped by the onset of disease. A profound and…
Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development
molecular medicine; immunology; cell biology
High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation
Pharmacology/Toxicology; Molecular Medicine; Human Physiology; Immunology; Cell Biology