Fissell Mary E (75 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Block and Brown, Clio in search of Eros: redefining sexualities in early America. Bloch, Changing conceptions of sexuality and romance in eighteenth-century America. Fissell, Hairy women and naked truths: gender and the politics of knowledge in Aristotle's Masterpiece. Spear, Colonial intimacies: legislating sex in French Louisiana. Rust, What's wrong with Charlotte Temple? Lyons, Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture: homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Carroll, "I indulged my desire too freely": sexuality, spirituality, and the sin of self-pollution in the diary of Joseph Moody, 1720-1724. Foster, Antimasonic satire, sodomy, and eighteenth-century masculinity in the Boston Evening-Post. Forum: Reconsidering early American sexuality. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 269 pages.…

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Very few minor underlines. Otherwise very good with minimal wear.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 266 pages. Hardcover. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Some light underlining throughout. In great shape. In a detailed examination of health, healing, and poor relief in eighteenth-century Bristol, Fissell shows how the experience of the hospitalized urban poor laid the foundations for modern doctor-patient encounters. Record # 32946.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 82 No. 4. 776-996 p. + advertising. 23 cm. A few b&w illustrations. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Whose Body Is It Anyway? Trading the Dead Poor, Coroner's Disputes, and the Business of Anatomy at Oxford University, 1885-1929, by Elizabeth T. Hurren; Race and Medical Practice in Kansas City's Free Dispensary, by Christopher Crenner; Psychological Trauma and Its Treatment in the Polio Epidemics, by Daniel J. Wilson; Allied Against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry-Academic Physician Relations in the United States 1945-1970, by Dominique A. Tobbell.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 84 No. 1. 162 p. + advertising. 23 cm. A few b&w illustrations. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Decline and Decadence in Iraq and Syria after the Age of Avicenna, by N. Peter Joosse and Peter E. Pormann; Weighing Babies and the Birth of the Infant Welfare Clinic, by Lawrence T. Weaver; Suitable Care of the African When Afflicted With Insanity: Race, Madness, and Social Order in Comparative Perspective, by Martin Summers; Questioning the Medical Fringe: The "Cultural Doxy" of Catholic Hydropathy in Belgium 1890-1914, by Evert Peeters; etc.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 85 No. 2. vi, 172-318 p. + advertising. 23 cm. A few b&w illustrations. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: The Midwife and the Church: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Midwives in Brie 1499-1504, by Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher and Ruth Mazo Karras; Patients, Physicians, and Diseases in Marcello Malpighi's Medical Practice, by Marco Bresadola; Apothecaries and the Medical Marketplace in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Wales, by Alun Withey; The Beauty of Anatomy: Visual displays and Surgical Education in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, by Carin Berkowitz; etc. …

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 81 No. 1. 334 p. + advertising. 23 cm. A few b&w illustrations. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Cancer Control and Prevention in the Twentieth Century, by David Cantor; Publicizing Childhood Cancers in Twentieth-Century America, by Gretchen Krueger; Cancer and Popular Hollywood film, by Susan E. Lederer; Cancer as the General Population Knows It: Knowledge, Fear, and Lay Education in 1950s Britain, by Elizabeth Toon; Feminist Surgeons and the Establishment of Radiotherapy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, by Ornella Moscucci; Cancer Clinical Trials, by Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio; Ill Patient, Public Activist: Rose Kushner's Attack on Breast Cancer Chemotherapy, by Barron H. Lerner; Breast Cancer and the Materiality of Risk, by Ilana Lowy, Henry Lynch and the Transformations of Hereditary Cancer, by Raul Necochea; etc.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 81 No. 3. Pages 512-698 + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Social medicine and the History of Medicine, by Charles E. Rosenberg; The English Disease or Asian Rickets? Medical Responses to Postcolonial Immigration, by Roberta Bivins; Teamwork, Clinical Research, and the Development of Scientific Medicines in Interwar Britain: the Glasgow School Reviseted, by Andrew J. Hull; Healthcare Reconsidered: Forging Community Wellness among African Americans in the South, by Jennifer Nelson, etc.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 80 No. 2. 220-407 p. + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Witchcraft Accusations and the French Disease in Early Modern Venice, by Laura J. McGough; Smallpox, the body and Social Relations of Healing in the Eighteenth Century, by Sara Stidstone Gronim; A Stranger to Our Camps: Typhus in American History, by Margaret Humphreys; Eugenics, Medical Education, and the Public Health Service: Another Perspective on the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, by Paul A. Lombardo and Gregory M. Dorr; A Private Little Revolution: The Home Pregnancy Test in American Culture, by Sarah A. Leavitt, etc.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 80 No. 1. 217 p. + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Medicine amidst War and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Madras, by Pratik Chakrabarti; Patterns of Medical Culture in Colonial Bengal, 1835-1880, by Christian Hochmuth; Trauma Surgery and Traffic Policy in Germany in the 1930s: A Case Study in the Coevolution of Modern Surgery and Society, by Thomas Schlich; On Cannabis, Chloral Hydrate, and Career Cycles of Psychotropic Drugs in Medicine, by Stephen Snelders, Charles Kaplan, and Toine Pieters, etc.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 82 No. 3. Pages 516-773 + advertising. 23 cm. A few b&w illustrations. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: From Foetid Air to Filth: The Cultural Transformation of British Epidemiological Thought, ca. 1780-1848, by Michael Brown; Culture of Death and Politics of Corpse Supply: Anatomy in Vienna, 1848-1914, by Tatjana Buklijas; The Red Man and the White Plague: Rethinking Race, Tuberculosis, and American Indians, ca. 1890-1950; Atlantic Conjunctures in Anglo-American Neurology: Lewis H. Weed and Johns Hopkins Neurology, 1917-1942, by Stephen T. Casper; etc.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 80 No. 3. Pages 410-616 + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Jerome Joseph Bylebyl: An Appreciation, by Walton O. Schalick III; The Field H. Garrison Lecture: De Kruif's Boast: Vaccine Trials and the Construction of a Virus, by John M. Eyler; Medicine, Natural Philosophy, and the Influence of Melanchthon in Reformationn Denmark and Norway, by Morten Fink-Jensen; Walter Straub, the Question of Drug Receptors, and the Rise of Modern Pharmacology, by Cay-Rudiger Prull; The History of the Patient History since 1850, by Jonathan Gillis; Child Guidance in Interwar Scotland: International Influences and Domestic Concerns, by John W. Stewart. …

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. xi + 266, illus with figures, tables and maps (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper and light pencil marks in margins of some pages).

Paperback. Condition: Good. No jacket. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Paperback, 8vo, xi,266pp, illust. Slightly shelfmarked. A good copy. 0521526930/0.5uk.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Paperback. Condition: New. New. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Softcover. xi, 283 p., ill., 23 cm. Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy.…

Condition: Very Good. Very slight shelfwear to extremities of dustjacket, otherwise fine.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. As new cloth copy in as new dustjacket. xi, 266 pages. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xi, 266pp. Previous owner's name obscured on ffep. Light pencil marginalia in first chapter.

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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