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This well-researched, very readable book makes a significant contribution to our understanding about the rise of the...

This is a book that resulted from long-term fermentation. It not only provides a concise history of autoimmunity but...

Despite having been published back in 2008, Frankensteinian Everyday: Feminist Engagement with Health and Medicine in...

Psychiatry has played a manifold role in the making of the modern world. The discipline offers care to patients...

In what way does a nation come into being by means of hygiene? And how can hygiene shape its people through...

This is a striking book (original title: 遺伝子改造). Osamu Kanamori (金森修) is a leading scholar who has critically studied...

Mark Harrison, a well-known scholar of British colonial medicine who has written histories of wartime public health...

I sometimes wonder what the value(s) of critical sociological engagement with science for scientists themselves might be

Nie Jing-bao is a specialist of bioethics and intercultural medical history. Currently, he is an associate professor...

Sociopolitical implications of women's reproductive bodies have been subject to historical scrutiny over the decades...