Author: William NisbetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An Inquiry Into the History, Nature, Causes, and Different Modes of Treatment
Author: William NisbetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An Inquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer
Author: William NISBET (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Marjo KaartinenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317320298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.
Catalogue Raisonné of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author: Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Female Agency in the Urban Economy
Author: Deborah SimontonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136275029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds’ regulations, affected women’s participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women – which is an essential component of female agency – was very limited. Yet these chapters draw attention to how women navigated these gendered terrains. As the book demonstrates, "exclusion" is too strong a word for the realities and pragmatism of women’s everyday lives. Frequently guild and corporate regulations were more about situating women and regulating their activities, rather than preventing them from operating in the urban economy. Similarly corporate structures, which were under stress, found flexible strategies to incorporate women who through their own initiative and activities put pressure on the systems. Women could benefit from the contradictions between moral and social unwritten norms and economic regulations, and could take advantage of the tolerance or complicity of urban authorities towards illicit practices. Women with a grasp of their rights and privileges could defend themselves and exploit legal systems with its loopholes and contradictions to achieve economic independence and power.
The legacy of John Polidori
Author: Sam GeorgePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526166372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
John Polidori’s novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps ‘the most influential horror story of all time’ (Frayling). Polidori’s story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori’s Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori’s vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. The essays emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.
Alphabetical Register of All the Authors Actually Living in Great Britain, Ireland and in the United Provinces of North America, with a Catalogue of Their Publications
Author: Jeremias David ReussPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
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Author: Bulkeley Bandinel