History of medicine books

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Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy: England and Central Europe, 1350-1434

Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy:...

Author: Dr Patrick Outhwaite
ISBN: 9781914049262
Format: Hardback
$194.06

A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings.  Read More >>

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English...

Author: Dana Oswald
ISBN: 9781526176882
Format: Hardback
$194.99

The Old English remedies for women's reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close...  Read More >>

Bizarre Medical Ideas: ... and the Strange Men Who Invented Them

Bizarre Medical Ideas: ... and the Strange Men Who Invented...

Author: Edzard Ernst
ISBN: 9783031551017
Format: Paperback
$73.89

This book focuses on the individuals who invented specific forms of alternative medicine. Examples are Hahnemann...  Read More >>

The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice

The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox...

Author: Alessandra Celati
ISBN: 9781032112060
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Extending beyond an individual case study to a granular and probing account of the many connections between Venetian...  Read More >>

Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical Analysis

Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical...

Author: Somogy Varga (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781009450010
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Amid criticism of medicine's scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of...  Read More >>

Sound Mind

Sound Mind

Author: John Haslam
ISBN: 9789357967747
Format: Paperback
$45.06

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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide

Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against...

Author: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Professor of History, Professor of History, Vancouver Island University)
ISBN: 9780197632543
Format: Hardback
$63.95

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S....  Read More >>

Macher der modernen Medizin

Macher der modernen Medizin

Author: James J Walsh
ISBN: 9789359250854
Format: Paperback
$61.12

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Cr�ateurs de la m�decine moderne

Cr�ateurs de la m�decine moderne

Author: James J Walsh
ISBN: 9789359250830
Format: Paperback
$59.88

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American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the...

Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916244
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows...  Read More >>

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

Author: Sachiko Kusukawa
ISBN: 9781789148527
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius - the father of modern anatomy - as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture....  Read More >>

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

Author: Elsa Richardson ,  Francesca Barrie
ISBN: 9781788167550
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

Author: Natasha Sarkar (Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9780198873228
Format: Hardback
$161.95

This study examines the political, social, economic, and demographic dimensions of the plague pandemic which affected...  Read More >>

Family Medicine OSCE: First Aid to Objective Structured Clinical Examination

Family Medicine OSCE: First Aid to Objective Structured...

Author: Shaima Lari ,  Shammah Al Memari
ISBN: 9789819955299
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In this book, a clinician can experience the most typical medical subjects in a primary care setting, which is the...  Read More >>

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession:...

Author: Jane Brooks
ISBN: 9781526167422
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

Georg Ludwig als Gestalter und Praktiker in der Anstaltspsychiatrie im Gro�herzogtum Hessen

Georg Ludwig als Gestalter und Praktiker in der Anstaltspsychiatrie...

Author: Henrik Karl D�bold
ISBN: 9783631908020
Format: Hardback
$131.96

"Georg Ludwig gilt als Schl�sselfigurHauptakteur in der Entwicklung der psychiatrischen Versorgung imVersorgung...  Read More >>

Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction: Second Edition

Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction: Second Edition...

Author: Christian W. McMillen (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780197762004
Format: Paperback
$22.95

A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox,...  Read More >>

Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital

Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital...

Author: Ewa Herbst
ISBN: 9798887192543
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Year 2023 marks 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv. The richly illustrated book Visionaries from Lviv:...  Read More >>

History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume I: Insights to Specific Cross-Cutting Aspects of the Disease in the Americas

History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian...

Author: Charles E. Rupprecht
ISBN: 9783031250545
Format: Paperback
$343.17

The Americas is the only region with bat rabies virus, including vampire bat rabies.  Read More >>

Tobacco and Alcohol I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine.

Tobacco and Alcohol I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The...

Author: John Fiske
ISBN: 9789362098382
Format: Paperback
$42.77

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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines

The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s...

Author: Brian Deer
ISBN: 9781917189057
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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