MEDICINE & DISEASE

Not just another ordinary illness By Ludomyr Mykyta A critique of the state of dementia diagnosis and care in Australia.

The conventional way that dementia is evaluated and managed is one-dimensional and outdated. We are fixated on identifying a cause, when we should be identifying the consequences. We use tests when we should be seeing and talking to people. Drawing from his long career in geriatric medicine, Dr Ludomyr Mykyta critiques the state of dementia treatment and care in Australia, highlighting the discrimination faced by our ageing residents.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801248 • Paperback 354 pages • May 2020 • £30.00

Varieties of Causal Explanation in Medical Contexts

By Raffaella Campaner Examines causal explanations in medicine.

Explanation in terms of causes has nourished a wide debate addressing diseases, what produces them, and how. The aims of this volume are two-fold: to stress the core features, differences and interaction between various theories and their suitability in medicine, and to advocate a form of pluralism grounded in deep analysis of specific features of explanatory context in the health sciences, especially in cancer and mental health studies.

Mimesis International • 9788869772788 • Paperback 208 x 140mm • 170 pages • April 2020 • £20.99

The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia

Kentucky Students Take ACTION Edited by Nathan L. Vanderford, Lauren Hudson and Chris Prichard Endeavours to convey how life-changing cancer diagnoses can be. Kentucky has more cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths than any other US state, and most of these cases are concentrated in the Appalachian region of the commonwealth. This collection features essays written by a group of twenty high school and five undergraduate students detailing the effects of cancer diagnoses and deaths on individuals and communities.

Galenic Pharmacy in Colonial Mexico By Paula De Vos Examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy.

This book examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Paula De Vos traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition from its foundations in Ancient Greece to the physician-philosophers of the Islamic empires in the medieval Latin West and eventually through the Spanish Empire to Mexico, offering a global history of the transmission of these materials, knowledges, and techniques.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946496 • Hardback • 40 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 352 pages • November 2020 • £38.00

The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920

Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease By James F. Stark Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance.

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax." Stark offers a fresh perspective on the history of infectious disease. He examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance, and constructs a narrative that spans public, professional and geographic domains.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966494 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 272 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Typhoid in Uppingham

Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–1877 By Nigel Richardson Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Examines nineteenth-century health strategy through a well-documented market town. After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the midnineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a microhistorical case study.