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  • MIDWIFERY, OBSTETRICS AND THE RISE OF GYNAECOLOGY
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    MIDWIFERY, OBSTETRICS AND THE RISE OF GYNAECOLOGY
    HELEN KING
    The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the...

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  • DISASTERS AND SOCIAL RESILIENCE
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    DISASTERS AND SOCIAL RESILIENCE
    HELEN BOON / ALISON COTTRELL / DAVID KING
    The interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing bodies, policy and individuals in the field of disaster studies has never been accurately examined or comprehensively modelled. This kind of study is vital for planning policy and emergency responses and assessing individual and community vulnerability, resilience and sustainability as well as mitigation and adapta...

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  • THE ONE-SEX BODY ON TRIAL: THE CLASSICAL AND EARLY MODERN EVIDENCE
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    THE ONE-SEX BODY ON TRIAL: THE CLASSICAL AND EARLY MODERN EVIDENCE
    HELEN KING
    By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade fr...

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  • THE DISEASE OF VIRGINS
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    THE DISEASE OF VIRGINS
    HELEN KING
    From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologi...

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  • HIPPOCRATES' WOMAN
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    HIPPOCRATES' WOMAN
    HELEN KING
    Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflic...

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