Poonam Bala (ed.), Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India
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Joseph November, Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States
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Pauline M. Prior (ed.), Asylums, Mental Health Care and the Irish, 1800-2010
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John Burnham (ed.), After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
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Paul Kopperman (ed.), Regimental Practice by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual
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Dominique A. Tobbell, Pills, Power and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences
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The financial penalty for „unfair“ debt: the case of Cuban bonds at the time of independence
„Unfair“ sovereign debts, used, for instance, to suppress a rebellion, may be declared „odious“ and not be repaid once the former regime is overthrown. Bondholders may therefore require a premium to compensate for the higher default risk due to the po…
Inescapable hunger? Energy cost accounting and the costs of digestion, pregnancy, and lactation
This paper adjusts reconstructions of per capita food consumption in England from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries by factoring in the energy costs of digestion, pregnancy, and lactation. Digestion costs arise because the body has difficulty dige…
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914
From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these „Corn Returns“ were published in the London Gazette. We computerized the data published between 1770 and 1864,…
Land markets and inequality: evidence from medieval England
The Hundred Rolls survey of 1279 documents substantially more inequality in the distribution of peasant landholdings than does the Domesday survey of 1086. Twelfth-century innovations in property rights over land induced peasants to expand the role of…