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  • Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000

    Edited by Steve Sturdy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day. In a series of detailed historical case studies, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Knowledge in Policy

    Embodied, Inscribed, Enacted

    Edited by Richard Freeman, Steve Sturdy ...
    This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on the different forms that knowledge takes.Knowledge is embodied in people, inscribed in documents and instruments, and enacted in specific circumstances. Empirical case studies of health and education ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Medicine

    by F. González-Crussi ...
    Series Book 28 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and ... Read more

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  • The Black Death

    by Francis Gasquet ...
    The story of the Great Pestilence of 1348 - 9 has never been fully told. In fact, until comparatively recent times, little attention was paid to an event which, nevertheless, whether viewed in the magnitude of the catastrophe, or in regard to its far-reaching results, is certainly one of the most important in the history of our country... ... Read more

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  • Not Your Ordinary Doctor

    by Jim Leavesley ...
    Throughout history, many doctors have worked outside the occupation for which they were originally trained. Not Your Ordinary Doctor reveals sixty such medical truants who found fame in fields other than medicine.Meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes; cringe as Stalin tortures each of his eight doctors; follow John Keats, who abandons medicine to pursue his literary career. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance

    Edited by David Levi-Faur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Dreams and Due Diligence

    Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy

    by Joe Sornberger ...
    In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive generations of researchers who have used their findings to make huge advances against disease. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

    The Human Development Sequence

    by Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel ...
    This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • History of Medicine: All That Matters

    by Tim Hall ...
    Series series All That Matters
    The History of Medicine is an amiable amble through medicine's past, designed as a primer for those taking history of medicine modules as part of their studies and for the wider public seeking a relaxed yet informative read.The approach is to follow medicine's history through the author's neatly designed 'Ages' that offer a meaningful way of grasping and memorising key eras and events. Twenty one ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The 2016 Contenders: Marco Rubio

    by Mary Jordan, The Washington Post ...
    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories.Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign.Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a man in a hurry, ... Read more

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  • The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? ... Read more

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  • Lovie

    The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship

    by Lisa Yarger ...
    Series series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was about giving life, was conspicuously marked by loss, including the untimely death of her husband ... Read more

    $18.99 USD