Preface - Modern contraception

Preface 1. the Modern Research Environment

The 21st century has presented the professional researcher with a myriad of challenges and opportunities. In particular, there are a number of new and exciting digital technologies, which offer researchers considerable advantages in terms of speed, access connectivity, and economy. Skype and other Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) applications allow practitioners to carry out face-to-face int...

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Preface: Situating “Alternative Medicine” in the Modern Period

Different times produce different historians of medicine and different definitions of their object of research. With the advent of the social history of medicine in the 1970s and the entering of non-medical historians into the field, medical history has widened to encompass the history of health and illness in general with all its diverse topics and approaches. Given the way history reflects pr...

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