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The Gospel of Germs
Bok av Nancy Tomes
The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France
Bok av Genevieve Miller
Benjamin Waterhouse and the Introduction of Vaccination : A Reappraisal
Bok av Professor John B Blake
The Development of Modern Medicine : An Interpretation of the Social and...
Bok av Richard Harrison Shryock
Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1941
Bok av George Rosen
The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi : And the Relation of Early Arabi...
Bok av Martin Levey
Mad Tuscans and Their Families
Bok av Elizabeth W. Mellyn
Making Sense of Oneself : Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth C...
Bok av Anita Clair Fellman

The Art of Asylum-Keeping : Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Bok av Nancy Tomes
The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. It recreates everyday life in the asylum and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.