Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume I: Medical Education and Anatomical Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
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By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026
This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume II: The Trade of Anatomy
1st Edition
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By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026
This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume III: Investigating Death
1st Edition
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By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026
This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurence Talairach
December 17, 2026
This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume I: Human Nature
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
This volume features some of the most controversial and topical science writing of the period. Investigations of the human body led to vexed debates about the nature and origins of life – materialism vs. spiritualism. Anatomical studies demonstrated humans’ likeness to other mammals; these, ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume II: The Natural World
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
This was the heroic period of plant collection: Europeans now had the means to collect and study flora and fauna from all over the world; they also developed classificatory systems that allowed them to create universal schema for plant reproduction and animal organization. This was also the period...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume III: Forces
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
These areas of enquiry were related in the period: the chemical changes produced by heat were the subject of intense investigation in an effort to provide a comprehensive account of why and how substances combined. Priestley’s isolation of gases was made under the aegis of a phlogiston theory; this...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837: Volume IV: Science in Society
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By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
This volume draws together texts revealing the increased and varied roles that science played in society at large, beyond the laboratory, the learned society and the scientific journal. Women's science writing, sampled here, was often professedly designed to educate a lay - usually female - ...
Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837
1st Edition
By Tim Fulford
October 30, 2026
In 1802 Humphry Davy hailed a new era in which science was empowering mankind as never before: ‘it has’, he said, ‘bestowed upon him powers which may be almost called creative; which have enabled him to modify and change the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with ...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Convalescence and the Modern World
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By Hosanna Krienke
October 27, 2026
Across the nineteenth century, what counted as a beneficial medical intervention narrowed considerably. Diagnostic acts like listening to a patient’s heartbeat or performing a physical examination became the norm for medical doctors, while physical acts of care—such as feeding a patient or ...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume II: The Opportunities of Invalidism
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By Hosanna Krienke
October 27, 2026
While convalescence connoted a temporary experience of recuperation after a serious illness, invalidism was pictured as an ongoing—and perhaps endless—experience of ill-health. Invalids, then, were those whose conditions appeared to derive no benefit from scientific medicine’s interventions. Yet ...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
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By Hosanna Krienke
October 27, 2026
An asset to researchers and students alike this two volume set contextualizes the drastically changing environment of nineteenth-century medicine not merely from the perspectives of famed medical experts, but also those of patients, nurses, caregivers, journalists, and social reformers. Students in...