Publications
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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 Defining Difference
(2017)
Ovariotomy provides a useful way of unpacking not just the process of
surgical innovation but also the usefulness of innovation as an analytical
category in the history of medicine. How might we pin down the meaning
of ...
Chapter 1 Evaluating the Role of Hans Selye in the Modern History of Stress
(2014)
Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now applied in a variety of other fields and contexts, such as in the ...
Chapter 9 The Invention of the 'Stressed Animal' and the Development of a Science of Animal Welfare, 1947-86
(2014)
Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now applied in a variety of other fields and contexts, such as in the ...
The Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva
(2020)
Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality. Comprised of pastors and elders, this body met weekly and summoned people for a wide range of "sinful" ...
Technological Change in Modern Surgery
(2017)
Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy ...
Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century
(2014)
Stress is one of the most widely utilized medical concepts in modern society. Originally used to describe physiological responses to trauma, it is now applied in a variety of other fields and contexts, such as in the ...
The Hidden Affliction
(2019)
A multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women ...