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Brutal treatments
Medicine and colonial violence at the end of empire
Russell T. Moul
Brutal treatments explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state. The book makes a substantial and significant contribution to the history of medicine, the history of medical ethics, and the history of colonialism.
Hardcover, 9781526167514, £90.00
eBook, 9781526167507, £90.00
Unhappy mothers
Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain
Sarah Crook
Release date 29th July
In the decades following the Second World War, mothers’ experiences of loneliness, boredom and unhappiness were increasingly widely acknowledged. The language of postnatal depression came to be attached to this, but mothers organised around their own discontent in ways that challenged the medical model. Unhappy mothers draws attention to the social, political, and professional contexts within which knowledge about unhappy mothering developed. Drawing upon an extensive range of archival material, the book addresses themes around expertise, feminism, and the value given to lived experience.
Hardcover, 9781526140128, £25
Feeling Blue
Colour and the modern British Hospital
Victoria Bates
Release Date: 19th August
