Performing Medicine

Performing MedicineAuthor: Michael Brown ISBN: 9780719095573 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 01 Apr 2014 Pages: 268 Format: Paperback softback The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political

his "fur waistcoat immaculate"

and a mysterious new Traveler

An examination of the profound changes that 20th-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics

Passion as hot as midnight in the South and love as wild as the horses they tame

Author: Nicholas Reynolds

and he explains what those texts do and do not mean

is back on the case when the discovery of a skeleton in an old building sparks a murder investigation

Imagine a rustic getaway with no mobile phone

enduring and taken-for-granted legacies of colonisation in today's world

Abducted at thirteen

social history

Felicity Kendal is Rosemary Boxer - a plant biology lecturer whose career is on the line