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3. Big impacts: the Black Death
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Big impacts’ focuses on the Black Death, which had an impact on every sphere of human activity. Indeed, the Black Death reshaped the course of European history. The case is strongest in ...
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6. Enduring images
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Enduring images’ describes the various images which have been attached to plague. These include graphic metaphors, like the arrows of Apollo and the swords of biblical angels, which ...
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Introduction: the kinds of medicine
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
The ‘Introduction’ identifies the framework used in this book for understanding the history of medicine. It is presented through a typology of the five primary kinds of medicine, namely: ...
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7. The lessons of histories
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘The lesson of histories’ explores the lessons from histories of plague. These lessons highlight the importance of cultures and institutions, contexts and agents in creating epidemics and ...
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4. Madness and meaning
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
The 19th century saw considerable scientific study of the architecture of the brain and spinal cord. However, this made no contribution either to clinical care or cure of the insane. ...
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6. Madness cast out
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
‘Madness cast out’ examines the dramatic changes in the psychiatric landscape that marked the late 20th century. These include the eclipse of psychoanalysis, a shift back to biological ...
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3. Madness confined
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
‘Madness confined’ reviews the care of the mad from the 18th to the mid-20th century. Initially, treatment was based on a humoral approach, combined with the use of chains and other ...
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5. Madness denied
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
‘Madness denied’ shows how the violence and mass slaughter of the 20th century influenced cultural perceptions of madness. The almost unique cultural authority of psychoanalysis in America ...
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2. Madness in chains
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
According to ‘Madness in chains’, madness acquired a much greater cultural salience between the 17th and early 19th centuries. A fascination with madness is visible everywhere — in plays ...
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1. Madness unbound
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
‘Madness unbound ’ explores social responses to madness. Our interpretations of it, and our notions of what is to be done about it, have varied remarkably over the centuries. Our early ...
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1. Medicine at the bedside
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
‘Medicine at the bedside’ examines the origins of Western medicine in ancient Greece, as relayed by the writings of Hippocrates, and the legacy of Hippocratic medicine. The approach was ...
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4. Medicine in the community
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
‘Medicine in the community’ examines the rise of public health in the nineteenth century, with its new concepts of state directives on healthcare and mass treatment and prevention ...
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3. Medicine in the hospital
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
‘Medicine in the hospital’ charts the ‘medical revolution’ seen in nineteenth-century France, and the development of new techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ...
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5. Medicine in the laboratory
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
‘Medicine in the laboratory’ explores how medicine became a more scientific field, moving away from its reliance upon the experience of doctors towards results obtained by experiment in the ...
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2. Medicine in the library
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
‘Medicine in the library’ describes the continued influence of ancient manuscripts throughout Europe and the Middle East, and how individuals with access to such texts dominated healthcare ...
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6. Medicine in the modern world
William Bynum
in The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
‘Medicine in the modern world’ considers the consequences for modern medicine of the topics covered in the earlier chapters, as well as the impact of cost and the implications of a ...
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2. Pandemics and epidemics
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Pandemics and epidemics’ starts by looking at the conventional picture of the history of plague which divides it into three long pandemics, each of them made up of a series of separate but ...
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1. Plague: what’s in a name?
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Plague’ discusses the identity of plague. The word ‘plague’ has been used over the centuries to denote an epidemic disease of particular severity and dramatic impact, and a disease which ...
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4. Private horrors
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Private horrors’ details the experiences of plague, looking at narrative sources illustrating how people coped. There were always two stories to tell about plague. One is about heroes ...
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5. Public health
Paul Slack
in Plague: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Public health’ addresses plague policies and the notions of public health they embodied. The particular character of plague epidemics undoubtedly made its own contribution to the ways in ...
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