Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Maps in Victorian Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Tina Y. Choi
March 03, 2027
Providing an overview of the major cartographic genres and significant developments in mapping practices in the nineteenth century Britain, as well as insight into some of the primary concerns and debates around mapping. This volume offers students and scholars a critical resource for thinking ...
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume I: Medical Education and Anatomical Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurence Talairach
December 29, 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
Edited
By Laurence Talairach
December 29, 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
Edited
By Laurence Talairach
December 29, 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 29, 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 ...
The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales: Volume I: The Coroner's Office
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Rutherford
December 29, 2026
This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...
The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales: Volume II: The Coroners
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne B. Rodrick
December 29, 2026
This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...
The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales: Volume III: Causes of Death
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne B. Rodrick
December 29, 2026
This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...
The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne B. Rodrick
December 29, 2026
This set comprises primary sources on the coroner, the inquest, and the role of the coroner, in (broadly) the nineteenth century. The coroner was (and is in many respects) a peculiarly English and Welsh office. The coroner was a judge who lived and worked in his local community and his actions had...
Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain: Volume I: Convalescence and the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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...