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  • af Nancy Tomes
    1.028,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
    af Nancy Tomes
    688,95 - 1.123,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
    af Leslie J. Reagan, Paula A. Treichler, John Parascandola, mfl.
    441,95 kr.

    Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

  • - How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
    af Nancy Tomes
    573,95 kr.

    In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time.

  • - Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
    af Nancy Tomes
    411,95 kr.

    All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. Tomes reminds us this is really nothing new. A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, this book returns to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness.