Published January, 2011
By Vanessa Heggie
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 October, 2010
By Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. -- .

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Published October, 2010
By Graham Dawson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Published April, 2010
By Christine Hallett and Christine E. Hallett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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. -- .

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Published June, 2009
By Rona Dougall, Susan McGann, Professor Anne Crowther and Anne Crowther
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents the history of Royal College of Nursing, one of the largest nursing organizations in the world. This book deals with the position of nurses in British society during 20th century by examining the largest of their organizations. It sheds light on both gender relations and the position of women in the work place in Britain since 1916.

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Published June, 2009
By Rona Dougall, Susan McGann, Professor Anne Crowther and Anne Crowther
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents the history of Royal College of Nursing, one of the largest nursing organizations in the world. This book deals with the position of nurses in British society during 20th century by examining the largest of their organizations. It sheds light on both gender relations and the position of women in the work place in Britain since 1916.

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Published April, 2009
By Scott L. Greer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study is the first large-scale comparison of policy and divergence in the UK since devolution. Based on extensive original research, it argues that we see substantial divergence in policies and social citizenship among the four parts of the UK as its autonomous political systems try to solve the unpredictable and difficult puzzles of health policy-making. -- .

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Published October, 2007
By Louise Hill Curth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume will help to fill a gap in the current understanding of sixteenth and seventeenth century popular medicine. As the most widely produced and distributed form of printed material in early modern England, almanacs had an immense power to propagate and reinforce traditional, orthodox ideas about medical care throughout England. -- .

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Published June, 2007
By Alysa Levene
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship. -- .

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Published June, 2007
By Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Irish women, as actual or potential mothers, were frequently the direct or indirect targets of much debate and welfare legislation during the first half of the twentieth century. This book provides an analysis of maternity policy and provision in Dublin. It also places maternity and child welfare in the context of twentieth century Irish history.

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