An Inquiry Into the History, Nature, Causes, and Different Modes of Treatment
Author : William Nisbet
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1795
Category : Cancer
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Author : William Nisbet
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1795
Category : Cancer
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Author : William NISBET (M.D.)
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1795
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Author : Marjo Kaartinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317320298
Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.
Author : Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library
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Page : 792 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Hospital libraries
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Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1136275029
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds’ regulations, affected women’s participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women – which is an essential component of female agency – was very limited. Yet these chapters draw attention to how women navigated these gendered terrains. As the book demonstrates, "exclusion" is too strong a word for the realities and pragmatism of women’s everyday lives. Frequently guild and corporate regulations were more about situating women and regulating their activities, rather than preventing them from operating in the urban economy. Similarly corporate structures, which were under stress, found flexible strategies to incorporate women who through their own initiative and activities put pressure on the systems. Women could benefit from the contradictions between moral and social unwritten norms and economic regulations, and could take advantage of the tolerance or complicity of urban authorities towards illicit practices. Women with a grasp of their rights and privileges could defend themselves and exploit legal systems with its loopholes and contradictions to achieve economic independence and power.
Author : Sam George
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2024-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526166372
John Polidori’s novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps ‘the most influential horror story of all time’ (Frayling). Polidori’s story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori’s Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori’s vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. The essays emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.
Author : Lynn Sacco
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801896207
First place, Large Nonprofit Publishers Illustrated Covers, 2010 Washington Book PublishersNamed one of the Top Five Books of 2009 by Anne Grant, The Providence Journal This history of father-daughter incest in the United States explains how cultural mores and political needs distorted attitudes toward and medical knowledge of patriarchal sexual abuse at a time when the nation was committed to the familial power of white fathers and the idealized white family. For much of the nineteenth century, father-daughter incest was understood to take place among all classes, and legal and extralegal attempts to deal with it tended to be swift and severe. But public understanding changed markedly during the Progressive Era, when accusations of incest began to be directed exclusively toward immigrants, blacks, and the lower socioeconomic classes. Focusing on early twentieth-century reform movements and that era’s epidemic of child gonorrhea, Lynn Sacco argues that middle- and upper-class white males, too, molested female children in their households, even as official records of their acts declined dramatically. Sacco draws on a wealth of sources, including professional journals, medical and court records, and private and public accounts, to explain how racial politics and professional self-interest among doctors, social workers, and professionals in allied fields drove claims and evidence of incest among middle- and upper-class white families into the shadows. The new feminism of the 1970s, she finds, brought allegations of father-daughter incest back into the light, creating new societal tensions. Against several different historical backdrops—public accusations of incest against “genteel” men in the nineteenth century, the epidemic of gonorrhea among young girls in the early twentieth century, and adult women’s incest narratives in the mid-to late twentieth century—Sacco demonstrates that attitude shifts about patriarchal sexual abuse were influenced by a variety of individuals and groups seeking to protect their own interests.
Author : Bodleian Library
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Bulkeley Bandinel
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1843
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