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Since the 1970s early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early... 
Sociology, Social Studies | Early retirement | Early retirement - Japan - Evaluation | Production systems | Employment regimes | Industrial relations | Employers | Institutional change | Trade unions | Social partnership | Public policy | Welfare regimes

Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England asks why Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights were so preoccupied with drugs and poisons and, at a deeper... 
English drama | Literature: History & Criticism | Human body in literature | Medicine | Poisons | Imagination | Body | Shakespeare | Emotions | Drugs | Elizabethan Theatre | Drama and the Theatre | English Literature | Poison | Sixteenth Century

This book examines a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and... 
Early modern | Great Britain | Mind and body in literature | 1500 - 1700 | English literature | Human body in literature | Literature and medicine | History | History and criticism | Literature & Philosophy | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | Consciousness & Cognition | Shakespeare

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years... 
Reasoning | Early childhood education | Problem solving | Problem solving in children | Reasoning in children | Activity programs | Numeracy | Study and teaching (Early childhood) | Education | Early Years | Teaching & Learning | Continuing Professional Development | Classroom Practice | Child development

What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places?Sex... 
History | Sociology | Tourism | Management

In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both... 
Women | Women in medicine | History, Early Modern 1451-1600 | Alchemy | Midwifery | Science | Women in science | History | History of Medicine | History of Science & Technology | Literature & Gender Studies | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies | Literature by Geographic Area | Women in science-Europe-History | Women in medicine-Europe-History | Europe

"This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a... 
Plague | Black Death | HISTORY / Middle East / General | Turkey Environmental conditionsHistory | Imperialism | Turkey History | History | Social aspects | Epidemiology | Turkey | Environmental aspects | Political aspects

Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal... 
Health in literature | Medicine in literature | English literature | Human body in literature | Language and languages | Rhetoric | Medieval influences | History and criticism | Social aspects | History | Philosophy | History of Medicine | Medieval Literature | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies | Literature by Geographic Area | English literature-History and criticism | England

This book studies relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It... 
Ireland Intellectual life | Landscapes | Great Britain Intellectual life | Reformation | Religious aspects | Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) | History of Religion | Social and Cultural History | British History | Medicine | Landscape | Ireland | Memory | Science | Environment | Britain | Identity | Antiquarianism

This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical... 
History, Ancient | History, Early Modern 1451-1600 | Medicine, East Asian Traditional | History, 18th Century | History | Medicine, Oriental | Medicine, Chinese | Traditional medicine | Japan | China | 18th century

Plague | Epidemics | Communicable diseases | Islamic civilization | Turkey History | Health attitudes | History | Epidemiology

"The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by the... 
Gerardus, de Senis, -1336? Quaestio de usura | Economics | Theology | Restitution | Philosophy, Medieval | History | Law, Medieval | Prescription (Law) | Gerardus, de Senis, -1336? Tractatus de restitution | Natural law | Moral and ethical aspects | Gerardus, de Senis, -1336? Quaestio de praescriptione | Usury

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic... 
Epidemics | Plague | History, Early Modern 1451-1600 | Disease Outbreaks | History, Medieval | history | Medicine, Medieval | Public health | History | early modern history (1500 to 1700) | Italy | Pathology | Plague literature | Counter reformation | Black death | Sixteenth century | Epidemiology | Galen | Renaissance medicine | Culture

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish... 
History of Medicine | Medicine | History, Early Modern 1451-1600 | Medicine in Literature | History | Medicine in literature | Latin American & Hispanic Studies | Spain | Social medicine | Public health