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Psychiatry

Disalienation Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Robcis Camille

ISBN: PB: 9780226777740, ISBN: HB: 9780226777603, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy Regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one p...

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Merchants of Medicines The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century

Dorner Zachary

ISBN: HB: 9780226706801, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 tables

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century – the so-called long eighteenth century of English history – was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long distance trade, and huma...

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Synthesizing Hope Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery

Pollock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780226629186, ISBN: HB: 9780226629049, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Synthesizing Hope" opens up the material and social world of pharmaceuticals by focusing on an unexpected place: iThemba Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2009 with a name taken from the Zulu word for hope, the small South African startup with an elite in...

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Contagious Cause The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine

Wolfe Scheffler Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226628370, ISBN: HB: 9780226458892, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ", inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that t...

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Life on Ice A History of New Uses for Cold Blood

Radin Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226417318, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were...

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Contesting Medical Confidentiality Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany

Maehle Andreas-Holger

ISBN: HB: 9780226404820, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy. In this age of health databases and increasing connectedness, however, th...

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Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Wounded Storyteller Body, Illness, and Ethics (Second Edition)

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004976, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
260 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability an...

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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Whooley Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780226017631, ISBN: HB: 9780226017464, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 1 map, 7 halftones

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, kil...

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Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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