Undoing Slavery excavates medical and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Facing many challenges to their goal of restoring embodied self-sovereignty to the enslaved, abolitionists learned that legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
The History of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania
Clyde F. Barker and Elizabeth Barker
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781606180204
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
592 Pages
Surgeons and Something More presents biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, begun in 1765. The book reveals how Penn surgeons played prominent roles in major events and medical advancements over the past 250 years.
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chelsea Berry
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826494
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Poisoned Relations illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world. Examining more than five hundred investigations and trials in British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas, she brings historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas.
A Male Hysteria examines diabetes medicine in Victorian England and the lives of Victorian diabetics. Diabetes was thought to be psychological in origin and patients were kept from work or excitement. Some, including diabetic doctors and nurses, rebelled. A Male Hysteria traces the origins of the persistent belief in a diabetic personality.
Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care
Guian A. McKee
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823936
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the health care system by emphasizing the economic and social importance of hospitals in American communities. While hospitals have become vital economic anchors in cities across the country, the spending that supports them has constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform.
Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
David Vaughn
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225273
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Since its founding in 1972, the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has made important contributions to the fields of blood disorders and cancer medicine. Both a memoir and a historical account, Vaughn's book demonstrates the good that can be accomplished when an innovative and dedicated medical faculty are committed to discovery and healing.
Embodying the Soul argues that classical medicine was reconfigured as a sacred Christian art across the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, becoming not simply a method of physical rehabilitation but also a tool of spiritual transformation.
Physician Girolamo Mercuriale pronounced in On Pestilence that plague was characterized by its lethal nature and the rapidity with which it spread. His work appears here for the first time in English, with an introduction that places the work within the context of the history of medicine, and our own responses to epidemic disease.
