Dorothy PORTER: Introduction. Matthew RAMSEY: Public Health in France. Paul WEINDLING: Public Health in Germany. Christopher HAMLIN: State Medicine in Great Britain. Karin JOHANNISSON: The People's Health: Public Health Policies in Sweden.

Dorothy PORTER: Introduction. Matthew RAMSEY: Public Health in France. Paul WEINDLING: Public Health in Germany. Christopher HAMLIN: State Medicine in Great Britain. Karin JOHANNISSON: The People's Health: Public Health Policies in Sweden.

The essays in this volume, which range across Europe, America and Africa, and from the 18th to the 20th centuries, argue that the experience of travel, and the business of representing that experience, involved an obligatory engagement with ...

Daniel Turner's prolific writings provide valuable insight into the practice of a commonplace Enlightenment London surgeon.

The Man Who Crucified Himself is the story of Mattio Lovat's self-crucifixion in Venice in 1805.

As a result the volume highlights the need for further comparative analysis of public health systems as a highly fruitful topic for future study.

Enlightenment London surgeon.

The essays in this collection explore various ways in which women responded to these challenges and opportunities and sought to use the power of modernising Western medicine to further their individual and gender interests.

The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe.