Published July, 2012
By Janet Lee
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities -- .

---

Published July, 2012
By Katherine Foxhall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history. -- .

---

Published June, 2012
By Ian Burney
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

A history of poisoning in the nineteenth century and in particular the case of Dr William Palmer, convicted of murder by poisoning, and how he baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges -- .

---

Published June, 2012
By Martin Atherton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Sets a case study of deaf people's leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community; questions perceptions of deafness as a disability; shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. -- .

---

Published December, 2011
By Alun Withey
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .

---

Published November, 2011
By Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. -- .

---

Published November, 2011
By Christine Hallett and Christine E. Hallett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

---

Published August, 2011
By Michael Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform. -- .

---

Published April, 2011
By Anna Maerker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. Model Experts reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- .

---

Published February, 2011
By Julie Anderson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- .

---