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Lessons and Legacies: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’

Fiona Reid

Fiona Reid is Associate Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of South Wales, UK, where she teaches modern European History. She is the author of Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 and a co-author (with Sharif Gemie and Laure Humbert) of Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-1948 (2011). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Medicine in First World War Europe : Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...The Great War finally ended on 11 November 1918. The German authorities had agreed to an armistice, and although official peace treaties were not signed until June 1919, the conflict was effectively over. As the war ended it was time...

Conclusion: The Afterlife of Fashion Victims

Alison Matthews David

Alison Matthews David is Associate Professor in the School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Fashion Victims : The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2015

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...I wish that I could conclude this book with a salutary tale about how modern medicine and science have solved all of the historical problems with fashion. But the truth is that we have exported most of them and created entirely new ones....

Galen’s Simple Medicines: Problems in Ancient Herbal Medicine

John Wilkins

John Wilkins

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Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Introduction Galen (c. 130–c. 200 ce) and Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 357 bce) are two of the giants of ancient medicine. Galen is perhaps the greater, for while all of his works are the product of one mind, the Hippocratic corpus has...

Body Damage

Sabine Kienitz

Sabine Kienitz

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Home/Front : The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany

Berg, 2002

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...Politicians and military officers hoped the First World War would become something of a ‘fountain of youth’ for the German nation. There was a sense that it would radically renew a society that individualism had rendered sickly...

The Life Cycle

Kathleen M. Brown

Kathleen M. Brown

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A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, ed. Vincent Caretta, rev. ed. (London: Penguin, 2003), p. 42.Every woman too, at certain times, was forbidden to come into a dwelling house, or touch any person...

Medicine and Disease

Mary Rojek Kleinman

Mary Rojek Kleinman

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Alice J. Dan

Alice J. Dan

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A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...During the twentieth century, major changes in health and medicine took place, including public health measures such as clean water and sanitation, drugs to counter infectious diseases, and remarkable advances in the medical sciences...

Medicine and Disease

Pamela K. Gilbert

Pamela K. Gilbert

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A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Santa Filomena,” in The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow, ed. Horace Elisha Scudder (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922), p. 197.Oscar Wilde, “Impression du Matin,” in The Writings of Oscar Wilde: Poems...

Sex, Medicine, and Disease

Cynthia Klestinec

Cynthia Klestinec

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Renaissance Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...Questions of anatomical difference play a central role in debates about early modern and modern sexuality. Indeed, they tend to organize those debates. In his account of sexuality as a modern phenomenon, for example, Arnold Davidson insists...

Sex, Medicine and Disease

George Rousseau

George Rousseau

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...Sex for What … ? In matters of sex, the Enlightenment physicians found themselves devoting their attention increasingly to biological sex and gender. This was not merely because their profession was enlarging and they looked to make...

Early Greek Medicine: Evidence of Models, Methods and materia medica

Vicki Pitman

Vicki Pitman

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Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...Introduction and methodology This chapter discusses the philosophy behind, and the evidence of, herbal medicines in the practice of ancient Greek physicians; the Hippocratic physicians. It also explores such concepts and practices that may...