Bacchic Medicine

Bacchic Medicine
Author: Harry W. Paul
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9004333428

Wine has always been a part of popular medicine. Bacchic Medicine analyses the historical role of wine in the treatment of disease and preservation of health and also discusses the contemporary debate over the role of alcohol and wine in preventive medicine.

The Great Medical Bibliographers

The Great Medical Bibliographers
Author: John F. Fulton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1512816108

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780415253857

This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.