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Chapter 7 Mansions in the Orchard
(2019)
This chapter explores the value and relevance of a combined academic and public engagement approach to the history of medicine. The authors consider a specific mental health project at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in ...
Chapter 9 Mitochondria Structure and Position in the Local Control of Calcium Signals in Smooth Muscle Cells
(2019)
Features of Ca2+ signals including the amplitude, duration, frequency and location
are encoded by various physiological stimuli. These features of the signals
are decoded by cells to selectively activate smooth muscle ...
Chapter Twelve Revealing the Hidden Affliction
(2019)
By the turn of the twentieth century the British nation’s declining birthrate
was increasingly the subject of anxious public and scientific debate, as
the Registrar General’s annual reports continued to confirm a ...
Chapter Introduction
(2019)
This volume is a necessarily multidisciplinary collection dedicated to the
extremely difficult task of uncovering and exploring what can be reconstructed
of the dimensions and the scale of the historical impact of ...
Chapter Five Chlamydia
(2019)
Since the late 1990s chlamydia has been the most commonly reported sexually
transmitted infection (STI) in Europe and the United States. The
infection is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis),
and ...
Chapter One (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity
(2019)
Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging.
The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence,
of any particular condition before an assessment can be made ...
Chapter 3 Sickness, disease and medical practitioners in 1640s Ireland
(2019)
This chapter explores the medical environment of 1640s Ireland, particularly during the 1641 Rebellion. It uses the 1641 Depositions to explore how people understood reported sickness and disease. It also traces the ...
Chapter 4 Promoting medical change in Restoration Ireland
(2019)
This chapter seeks to situate James Butler, duke of Ormond, at the centre of an important patronage network for medicine in Restoration Britain and Ireland. It explores the Irish dimension of the emergence of the Society ...
Chapter 5 ‘Rapt Up with Joy’:
(2016)
This chapter takes advantage of recent insights from the history of
emotions to offer a fresh perspective on children’s emotional responses to
death. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, it argues ...
Chapter 2 Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000
(2017)
In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant ...