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4 entries match Public Health [N02.500] · Arts, Literature & Humanities [K01.090] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]

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1992 CE

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

FURST, Lillian R. (1931 – 2009)
GRAHAM, Peter W.
GRAHAM, Peter W.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

VILA, Anne C. (1961 – )

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

1858 CE

#7481

Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army. Founded chiefly on the experience of the late war. Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)

This privately printed pamphlet contained a color statistical graphic entitled "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army of the East" which showed that epidemic disease, which was responsible for more British de…