![Remembering and Disremembering the Dead]( "Remembering and Disremembering the Dead")
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Tomasini, F. (2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when …
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![Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain]( "Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain")
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Withey, A. (2016)
The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were …
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![Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present]( "Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present")
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Fisher, K., Toulalan, S. (2011)
An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first …
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![Tissue Culture in Science and Society]( "Tissue Culture in Science and Society")
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Wilson, D. (2011)
This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in …
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![Angel of Death]( "Angel of Death")
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Williams, G. (2010)
The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next …
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![Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950]( "Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950")
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Gradmann, C. (Ed), Simon, J. (Ed) (2010)
Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century. The case studies in …
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![A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept]( "A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept")
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Prüll, C., Maehle, A., Halliwell, R. (2009)
The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century …
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![The Mass Image]( "The Mass Image")
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Beegan, G. (2008)
The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It …
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![Rabies in Britain]( "Rabies in Britain")
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Pemberton, N., Worboys, M. (2007)
Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out …
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![Engineering Empires]( "Engineering Empires")
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Marsden, B., Smith, C. (2005)
Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became …
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![Science, Faith and Man]( "Science, Faith and Man")
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Wagar, W. (Ed) (1968)
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![Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History]( "Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History")
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Timmermann, C. (Ed), Worboys, M. (Ed)
The aim of this series is to illuminate the development and impact of medicine and the biomedical sciences in the modern era. The series was founded by the late Professor John …
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![Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife]( "Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife")
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Davies, O. (Ed), Hurren, E. T. (Ed), Tarlow, S. (Ed)
This limited, finite series is based on the substantive outputs from a major, multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigating the meanings, …
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![Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History]( "Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History")
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This series analyzes science, technology and medicine as part of the wide culture of industrial society. The books investigate the uses and consequences of technical knowledge and …
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