Authorising History
This book explores the strategies Middle English authors used to authorise their historical works. It investigates the “anglicising” of history around 1300, which gave new audiences access to the past, previously excluded by Latin and French texts.
On Resentment
Resentment has a history. With the French Revolution as a turning point, this volume explores its evolution from a social passion for justice to a pathological symptom, revealing how this cultural experience has shaped social movements and the present world.
Post Traumatic Survival
Why do some war refugees thrive while others do not? This study of Khmer Rouge survivors reveals how cultural and religious resources were instrumental to their resilience. It proposes a new model to help health workers assist other survivors in their recovery.
The Clinical Presentation of Parkinson’s Disease and the Dyadic Relationship between Patients and Carers
This book offers a study of Parkinson’s disease, focusing on the neuropsychological changes that impact patients and their carers. It emphasizes the patient-carer relationship, providing explanations and strategies to alleviate the difficult aspects of care-giving.
This introductory text helps physiotherapists integrate research evidence into their practice. It bridges the gap for those lost in the language of research, offering a platform to develop an understanding of critical appraisal and gain confidence.
Applied Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences focuses on interdisciplinary research in psychology, physical education, and social medicine. This volume offers theoretical and empirical support for professionals, providing profound diagnoses of post-communist Romanian realities.
This book challenges the idea that medical ethics in armed conflict is identical to peacetime. It explores the dual loyalty conflict for Military Health Care Professionals torn between military orders and professional codes when caring for the wounded under fire.
The neurodiversity movement alleges that neurologically divergent individuals must struggle for their civil rights. This book explores these questions, examining the policies and practices of institutions like higher education, social support, and healthcare.
Freud
Written as an intellectual defense against psychosis, this book embeds a model of behavior based on psychoanalytic theory within the chaos to conceptualize the explosion of data from the neurosciences. This is a reflection on how psychoanalysis can take over your mind.
Disease, Class and Social Change
This history of tuberculosis treatment demonstrates how class shaped responses to the disease. It analyses the conflict between viewing TB as a disease of poverty requiring social reform, and a focus on isolating those deemed to possess an hereditary taint.
This study explores why Croatian Broca’s aphasics comprehend questions differently than English speakers, linking their distinct deficit patterns to key structural and processing variations between the two languages.
The Proceedings of the 18th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2009
This peer-reviewed volume collects papers from the History of Medicine Days conference, exploring topics from Ancient Medicine to Eugenics, Military Medicine, and Surgery. The book features the keynote address on the misuse of genetics by Dr. Garland E. Allen.
Parallel Discourses
To make public health programs in Botswana more effective, we must understand local religious and cultural beliefs. This book explores the parallel discourses on HIV between faith and public health, suggesting common ground for collaborative and effective prevention.
This book examines how doctors responded to trench diseases in the Great War. Faced with “new” conditions, a majority view emerged that they were a product of the trenches. This enabled an effective response using public health methods and military discipline.
The Faith Sector and HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Based on field research by scholars, this book covers the role of various religions in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in Botswana, once the world’s worst-affected country. It is for all who address HIV and AIDS, not just those studying religion.
This book explores the emotional care midwives give women to reduce distress and provide comfort. Based on research and written in accessible language, it is a useful source for students, voluntary groups, and women on their journey to motherhood.
Transnational Psychiatries
This book offers a new, transnational history of psychiatry. Through original case studies from South America, Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, it explores the global transfer of practices, revealing commonalities, contrasts, and interconnections.
These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
The Future of Post-Human Language
Does language delimit our mental world? Conventional views are misleading. This book provides a new way to understand the nature of learning that transcends the debate, with seminal implications for the future of how we think, feel, and do.
HIV / AIDS
This book explores how health communication is critical in lessening the spread of HIV and its devastating impacts. With no cure or vaccine, behavior change is the key to prevention, and the ideas here can spur new efforts and improve existing ones.