Published November, 2013
By Alun Withey and Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .

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Published November, 2013
By Vanessa Heggie and Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century. -- .

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Published August, 2013
By Martin Gorsky, John Mohan, Tim Willis, Bethan Hirst and Caroline Wilding
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of the establishment and operation of hospital contributory schemes and the organisation of voluntary hospitals in Britain before the creation of the NHS. -- .

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Published May, 2013
By Clare Hickman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. By focusing on the history of hospital gardens in England, Hickman adds a new dimension to current concerns regarding the therapeutic environment. -- .

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Published April, 2013
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 March, 2013
By Will Jackson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control. -- .

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Published February, 2013
By Laura Kelly
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women's admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers. -- .

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Published February, 2013
By Nicole Vitellone
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Produces an original empirical analysis of the discourse of safer sex, condom use and consent -- .

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Published February, 2013
By Geertje Mak and Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.

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Published August, 2012
By Catherine Cox
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

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