Published January, 2020
By Sally Shuttleworth, Steven Taylor, Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, Laurens Schlicht, Kristine Swenson, Torsten Riotte, Manon Mathias, Steffan Blayney and Agnes Arnold-Forster
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .

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Published January, 2020
By Brian D. Earp and Professor Julian Savulescu
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Love drugs and anti-love drugs exist and more powerful versions will be available in the near future: What are the ethics of using them, how will they affect society, and will they take the magic out of love? A cutting-edge book by two prominent ethicists on 'love drugs', and the implications they may have for us all. -- .

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Published January, 2020
By Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson, Kirsti Bohata and Alexandra Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'. -- .

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Published November, 2019
By Solveig Julich and Sven Widmalm
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities. -- .

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Published November, 2019
By Carol Helmstadter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft. -- .

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Published October, 2019
By Lea Williams
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century. -- .

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Published September, 2019
By Emily Cock
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

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Published July, 2019
By Jill Kirby
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .

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Published July, 2019
By David Appleby and Andrew Hopper
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families. -- .

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Published July, 2019
By Katherine Fennelly
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. -- .

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