Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Compound Remedies

Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain

A Unique History of the Galenic Pharmaceutical Tradition in New Spain

Curative Powers combines post-colonial theory with ethnographic research to reconstruct how the Soviet government used medicine and public health policy to transform the society, politics, and culture of its outlying regions, specifically Kazakhstan.

Winner of the 2003 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.

Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru

Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms

By Adam Warren

An original study examining the primacy placed on physicians and medical care to generate population growth and increase the workforce during the late eigteenth century in colonial Peru.

Influenza

A Century of Science and Public Health Response

By George J. Dehner

George Dehner examines the wide disparity in national and international responses to influenza pandemics, from the Russian flu of 1889 to the swine flu outbreak in 2009. He chronicles the technological and institutional progress made along the way and shows how these developments can shape an effective future policy.

A History of Organ Transplantation

Ancient Legends to Modern Practice

By David Hamilton

Foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl

The first book of its kind, A History of Organ Transplantation examines the evolution of surgical tissue replacement from classical times through the medieval period and up to the present day. This volume will be useful to undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, surgeons, and the general public. Both Western and non-Western experiences as well as folk practices are included.

Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine

Edited By Stefanie Buchenau, Roberto Lo Presti

This volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age.

A New Order of Medicine

The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg

By Hannah Murphy

The Construction of Medical Privilege and a New Argument about Medical “Progress”

Drugs on the Page

Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Edited By Matthew James Crawford, Joseph M. Gabriel

Examining the Circulation, Commodification, and Organization of Healing Goods and Healing Knowledge

Anxious Times

Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, Jennifer Wallis

The Pressures of Modern Life and Their Impact on Bodily and Mental Health in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Radiation Evangelists

Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century

By Jeffrey Womack

Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925. It focuses on the pioneering work of early advocates in the field, the “radiation evangelists” who, motivated by their faith in a new technology, trust in new ...