Author: Andrew Cunningham

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The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and …

Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medi …

Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medi …

The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and …

The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and …

The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid …

The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid …

The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and …

The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and …

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spect …

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spect …

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and …

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and …

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity – what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usua …

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity – what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usua …

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as ‘the perfection of anatomy’. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the ‘long’ eighteenth century in disciplinary t …

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as ‘the perfection of anatomy’. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the ‘long’ eighteenth century in disciplinary t …

The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey – the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine – consciously res …

The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey – the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine – consciously res …

The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this …

The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this …

The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are …

The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are …

Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely b …

Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely b …

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education sinc …

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education sinc …

The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objectiv …

The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objectiv …

Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire. This book focuses on the issue of the contestation of knowledge, and examines the non-Western responses to Western medicine. The decolonised …

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Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire. This book focuses on the issue of the contestation of knowledge, and examines the non-Western responses to Western medicine. The decolonised …

Togawa is dating the resident class weirdo, and their relationship is even more non-standard than she expected! They’ve never even kissed, but he’s tasted her tears, cleaned her ears, and shaved the …

Which came first – the Wizard or the Egg? Togawa thought she was getting a handle on the weirdness in her life – not an easy task around Matsubue, the strangest of the strange. And sure enough, life …

Snakes and Worms and Plant Roots, Oh My! Sometimes, mistakes have simple outcomes. And sometimes – especially for those who know Matsubue – they can turn deadly. A sinister couple left a gruesome mes …

Togawa leaves our world behind, following Matsubue into the Meikai. There, they encounter a mystery Spiral once worshiped by the ancients. It offers them new, happier lives–or death. Will they ever …

Once upon a dream, there was a girl just starting out at college and a boy she fell in love with. But despite being a dream, things weren’t as perfect as they hoped: When Togawa joins the dream analy …

Drunken Dreams Determine Devoted Desolation Matsubue and Togawa are on the outs – all because he had a dream about.. himself? But not himself. But still himself. It turns out escaping from the Meikai …

Past and future. Reality and illusion. Fate and possibility. It all comes together at the peak of the Meikai. The lord of the underworld reveals his true face, and a new set of deceptive tricks. The …

This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made. It has long been known that the English physician William Harvey (1578-1657) …

This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made. It has long been known that the English physician William Harvey (1578-1657) …

Gregor Reisch’s The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the d …

Gregor Reisch’s The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the d …

Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of …

Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of …