Published June, 2018
By Peter Triantafillou and Naja Vucina
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations in Denmark and England. Based on a detailed account of obesity control and mental recovery programs, the book shows that these interventions are supported by a form of optimistic vitalism that seems to have no political limitations. -- .

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Published May, 2018
By Ida Milne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. -- .

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Published May, 2018
By Jane Brooks
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline. -- .

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Published May, 2018
By Steven King
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare. -- .

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Published April, 2018
By David M. Turner and Daniel Blackie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people's working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain's Industrial Revolution. -- .

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Published March, 2018
By Christian Promitzer, Laurinda Abreu, Lisa Rosner, Dr. Jon Arrizabalaga, John Chircop, Francisco Javier Martinez, Quim Bonastra, Dominique Bon, Anna Rosenberg, Costas Tsiamis, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, Eleni Thalassinou, Angelos Hatzakis and Malika Ezzahidi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean. -- .

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Published March, 2018
By Waltraud Ernst
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 March, 2018
By Irina Metzler
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life. -- .

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Published February, 2018
By Julian Simpson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. -- .

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Published February, 2018
By Campbell Price, Roger Forshaw, Andrew Chamberlain, Paul Nicholson, Robert Morkot and Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions. -- .

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