Worldwide, an increasingly diverse and growing number of people are seeking therapy. We go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk a
An Observer Book of the YearA Times Science Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the YearA Financial Times Science Book of the Year'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail'It is hard to imagine a more timel
Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the Skin, f
Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey t
A remarkable journey through Chinese medical illustrations from the earliest illustrated manuscripts to advertising and comic books. Senior and emerging scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas ret
In Naturopathy in South India – Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its compl
In The Indian System of Human Marks, Zysk offers a literary history of the Indian system of knowledge which details divination by means of the marks on the bodies of both men and women. The history co
Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions provides new insight into how the body’s generative processes are harnessed as powerful metaphors for sp
"The short Latin treatise De curis puerorum is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed (perhaps mistakenly) to the famous al-Rz (Rhazes); one of the rare texts on pediatrics circulating i
The medical compendium entitled Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-?a?ir (Provisions for the Traveller and the Nourishment for the Sedentary) and compiled by Ibn al-Jazzar from Qayrawan in the tenth century is
This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the auth
Housni Alkhateeb Shehada's "Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam" is the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Isla
Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health
Hu Szu-Hui had been an imperial dietary physician under several short-lived descendants of Qubilai (Kublai Khan) during the early 1300s, and his book was presented to the court in 1330 as Proper and E
Chipman whose degree is in Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in Arabic pharmacology. Here she examines a work written in Arabic around 657/1260 by a Jewish ph
Lev (public health, U. of Haifa) and Amar (archaeology, Bar Ilan U.) have searched through discarded books deposited in a synagogue in Cairo from about the 10th to the 19th centuries to find reference
The Arabic medical manuscripts of the Wellcome Library in London have been uniformly catalogued for presentation in this valuable resource for researchers in the history of medicine. The works are div
The Imtihan al-alibba li-kaffat al atibba (The Experts' Examination for All Physicians) is the oldest known Islamic medical examination, prepared by al-Sulami, the chief of medicine to the Ayyubid s
