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Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice
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Laura J. McGough |
This provocative book questions the assumption that syphilis (the 'French disease') became widespread in Venice because of its legendary courtesans. Using new evidence, Laura McGough reconstructs the… |
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Bellevue
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David M. Oshinsky |
A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesth… |
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Bedlam
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Catharine Arnold |
Catharine Arnold takes us on a tour of Bedlam and examines London's attitude to madness along the way. We travel through the ages, from the barbaric `exorcisms' of the medieval period to the Tudor be… |
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Skulduggery
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Paul Rushworth-Brown |
A story of love and religious tolerance in 17th-century England. 'The story is a well-painted image of how 'copyholders' or peasants would have lived at this time, but that is only the backdrop to a … |
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