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Wherever We Are When We Come to the End digs into the form and the language of the Tractatus, following Wittgenstein through the war and his own conflicts with words and silence, violence and grief, time and eternity. The result is a highly original formal experiment and a poetic fantasia on logic, love and war.

Schon immer wurden Menschen in allen Gesellschaftsschichten von Zahnschmerzen geplagt: Pharaonen, Elisabeth I., Ludwig XIV. und George Washington hatten schon in jungen Jahren kaum noch Zähne im Mund. Machte man im Altertum u. a. den Zahnwurm für die Schmerzen verantwortlich und versuchte, diesen durch Ausräuchern zu vertreiben, setzte man später auf das radikale und brachiale Ausreißen der verfaulten Zähne, was erhebliche (und vor allem schmerzhafte) Nebenwirkungen mit sich brachte. Erst ab dem 19. Jahrhundert entwickelte sich die Zahnmedizin zu einer wissenschaftlich anerkannten Fachdisziplin mit zunehmend schmerzfreieren Behandlungsmethoden. Die Schrecken der Vergangenheit sind heutzutage während der Vorsorgetermine nicht mehr präsent. Eine diffuse Angst vor dem Zahnarzt ist vielen Menschen dennoch bekannt. Der Medizinhistoriker Richard Barnett erzählt anhand vieler unterhaltsamer Anekdoten und eindrucksvollen Bildmaterials von der Entwicklung vom Zahnbrecher zum Dentisten, von Jahrmarktständen zu hochmodernen Praxen, von Porträts mit zahnlos zusammengekniffenen Mündern zum strahlenden Lachen auf den allgegenwärtigen Selfies. - Eine anekdotenreiche Geschichte der Zahnmedizin - Mit 500 Illustrationen

An incisive and startling international review of the evolution of dentistry from the Bronze Age to the present day, presented in a gorgeous package

Seahouses is the first collection of poetry from cultural historian Richard Barnett. Those familiar with Barnett's non-fiction - recently described as 'superbly erudite and lucid' by Will Self - will be unsurprised to discover he is also a formidable poet, with a distinctly English approach that is at once fluid, precise, cynical and tender. Not a single word in this volume is wasted; least of all in the award-winning title sequence, where the sea sifts and rolls through the dreams of an old man asleep in a deckchair, conjuring a vision of history and our human crossings. Elsewhere, fragments of first love are glimpsed, pursued, and interrogated; fathers sit down to eat with the sons they have killed; two textbooks sing three songs of suppressed longing; bees are kept for all the wrong reasons. This is low modernism of the highest order, cranky, eloquent and broken-hearted - a terrific addition to the UK's poetry landscape.

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. This book follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the examples of surgical textbooks with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials of the mid-nineteenth century.

Published in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Library, this book explores themes related to health, medicine, and the intersection of science and culture. It offers unique insights and perspectives, drawing on the extensive resources of the Wellcome Trust to enrich the reader's understanding of these important topics.

The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankinds struggle with disease. Incorporating historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes, Richard Barnetts evocative overview reveals the fears and obsessions of an era gripped by epidemics.

Previously published as: Schaum's outline of review of elementary mathematics. c1997.

Beginning in 17-century Holland, with the creation of medicinal 'genievre', this book follows the global adventures of gin over four dark, decadent centuries of consumption and excess