Drugs And Narcotics In History Av Roy (wellcome Institute For The History Of Medicine London) Porter, Mikulas (university Of Cambridge) Teich

What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present...

This is a definitive, deeply researched biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) and is the first scholarly biography to be published in any language. The book is Todes''s magnum opus, which he has been working on for some twenty...

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first...

As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history''s proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely...