An authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has prioritized profits over people. Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to produce lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the ...(展开全部)

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in pre-professional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate f...(展开全部)

This classic work lays out the main outlines and most important turning points of British history — from the point of view of the ordinary people — in a clear and jargon-free style. Fascinating for the general reader and the historian alike, A People's History of England is the indispensable work on the subject.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the boo...(展开全部)

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United S...(展开全部)

In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, Czech, and other subjects, who feared that their languages and cultures ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 安德鲁·斯卡尔（Andrew Scull），加州大学圣迭戈分校社会学与科学研究特聘教授，曾在宾夕法尼亚大学和普林斯顿大学任教，著有Museums of Madness；Social Order/Mental Disorder；The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900；Masters of Bedlam；Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine；Madness: A Very Short Introduction。斯卡尔也经常在《泰晤士报文学增刊》《柳叶刀》和《脑》等权威学术期刊发表论文和评论。他还是古根海姆基金会和美国学术团体协会成员，并于1992～19...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 安德鲁·斯卡尔（Andrew Scull），加州大学圣迭戈分校社会学与科学研究特聘教授，曾在宾夕法尼亚大学和普林斯顿大学任教，著有Museums of Madness；Social Order/Mental Disorder；The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900；Masters of Bedlam；Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine；Madness: A Very Short Introduction。斯卡尔也经常在《泰晤士报文学增刊》《柳叶刀》和《脑》等权威学术期刊发表论文和评论。他还是古根海姆基金会和美国学术团体协会成员，并于1992～19...(展开全部)

作者簡介 馬克．傑克森 Mark Jackson 英國艾克斯特大學（University of Exeter）醫學史教授，具有醫師資格，醫療專長在免疫學，同時也是該校醫學人文(Medical Humanities )領域的研究計畫主持人。曾出版數本醫學史入門書，並且是牛津大學學術叢書系列（The Oxford Handbook）醫學史（The History of Medicine）一書的編者 。 除了在學術領域有所創新，也積極參與公共事務，曾擔任衛爾康信託基金會（Wellcome Trust）醫學史基金委員會主席，致力促進醫學史研究的開展，現任世界衛生組織健康研究諮詢委員與健康與文化專家小組主席（WHO Euro Expert Group on the Cultural Contexts of Health）。 譯者簡介 王惟芬 臺大動物系，倫敦...(展开全部)

Insightful, informed, and at times controversial in its conclusions, A Short History of Medicine offers an exceptional introduction to the major and many minor facets of its subject. In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of mo...(展开全部)