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Chapter 3 ˜It Is, Say Some, of a Ravenous Nature : Zoomorphic Images of Cancer
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter 2 A Hard Peace? Allied Preparations for the Occupation of Germany, 1943-1945
(2013)
When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the ...
Chapter 9 Reading Galen in Byzantium
(2018)
In this chapter, I shall focus on the Galenic corpus, whose dissemination in the Byzantine world was widespread and influential; in particular, I have chosen to
examine the various revivals of Galen’s Therapeutics to ...
Chapter 4 Obesity Is a Disease
(2022)
Obesity is a subcortical brain disease characterised by the pathognomonic symptoms of excessive hunger and/or reduced satiation after a meal. Distinct subtypes of obesity are recognised, although the rising incidence of ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum I commentariorum I-III versio Arabica / Galen. Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book I
(2014)
The present volume offers the first critical edition of Book 1 of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics, produced by the celebrated translator Hunayn ibn Ishāq (d. ca. 870). The ...
Chapter 6 Prevention
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Chapter 7 Mental Imagery in Psychopathology: From The Lab to the Clinic
(2015)
Autobiographical memory plays a key role in psychological well-being, and the field has been investigated from multiple perspectives for over thirty years. One large body of research has examined the basic mechanisms and ...
Chapter 5 In defense of a conditional harm threshold test for paediatric decision-making
(2019)
The case of Charlie Gard raises a number of serious ethical questions, including how a child’s best interests should be assessed, the role of parents in decision-making for a child, the appropriateness of trying untested ...
Chapter One (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity
(2019)
Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging.
The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence,
of any particular condition before an assessment can be made ...
Chapter Preface
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...