Published February, 2016
By Mary Donnelly, Claire Murray, Rob Kitchin and Bethan Hirst
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is an in-depth study of the contentious issues in Irish healthcare and deals with issues such as assisted suicide, abortion, adolescent treatment refusal, end of life care, retention of biological samples, involuntary admission to care and the regulation of stem cell research. -- .

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Published January, 2016
By Julie Anderson, Gerald V. O'Brien, Rebecca Mortimer, Walton Schalick and Gerald O'Brien
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. -- .

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Published January, 2016
By Waltraud Ernst and Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .

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Published December, 2015
By Stephen T. Casper, Rebecca Mortimer and Stephen Casper
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists -- .

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Published December, 2015
By Mary Hunter, Bethan Hirst, Amelia Jones and Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery. -- .

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Published December, 2015
By Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Anna Greenwood and Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa. -- .

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Published October, 2015
By Catharine Coleborne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration.

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Published October, 2015
By Christine Hallett, Gerard M. Fealy, Gerard Fealy, Christine E. Hallet, Susanne Malchau Dietz, Rebecca Mortimer, Jane E. Schultz and Susanne Dietz
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Contains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing, with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work -- .

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Published September, 2015
By Christine Hallett, Sue Hawkins, Helen Sweet, Rebecca Mortimer and Jane E. Schultz
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa -- .

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Published July, 2015
By Ana Carden-Coyne, Carol Acton, Jane Potter, Rebecca Mortimer, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell and Max Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps -- .

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