History of medicine books

47157 books were found.

Encyclopedia of the Black Death

Encyclopedia of the Black Death

Author: Joseph P. Byrne (Belmont University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765114148
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague...  Read More >>

The Unmasking of Medicine: A Searching Look at Healthcare Today

The Unmasking of Medicine: A Searching Look at Healthcare...

Author: Ian Kennedy
ISBN: 9781032652030
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface...  Read More >>

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage,...

Author: Sonja Brentjes
ISBN: 9781032444963
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between...  Read More >>

Collected Studies: Jewish Doctors in the Middle Ages

Collected Studies: Jewish Doctors in the Middle Ages...

Author: Joseph Shatzmiller
ISBN: 9798887193724
Format: Hardback
$150.00

In Collected Studies (Volume 4): Jews in the Medical Profession, Joseph Shatzmiller, the prominent scholar of Provence...  Read More >>

Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine

Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness...

Author: Chris Sandal-Wilson (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009430371
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers...  Read More >>

Mental Health in Late Medieval England: A Surprising History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment in Society

Mental Health in Late Medieval England: A Surprising...

Author: Michele Schindler
ISBN: 9781399092449
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Rich narrative providing a new perspective on Medieval history for a general audience.  Read More >>

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical...

Author: Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009241328
Format: Hardback
$297.56

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis,...  Read More >>

Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition

Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition...

Author: Sharrona Pearl
ISBN: 9781421447537
Format: Paperback
$95.99

"""This work considers the spectrum of face recognition from face blindness to super-recognizers and the influence...  Read More >>

Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire: The Colonial Politics of Population

Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France...

Author: Margaret Cook Andersen ,  Melissa K. Byrnes
ISBN: 9783031260230
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The book covers a broad period from the ‘first colonial empires’ that existed prior to 1830, the ‘new imperialism’...  Read More >>

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed: A History of Women Healers

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed: A History of Women...

Author: Deirdre English ,  Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9798874684266
Format: Audio
$97.65

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism,...  Read More >>

Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine

Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American...

Author: Luke Messac (Resident Physician, Resident Physician, Brown University)
ISBN: 9780197676639
Format: Hardback
$48.95

A powerful history of how medical debt destabilized the American healthcare system DL and how we can build back...  Read More >>

The First NHS: How John Tomley’s Work Led to Modern Healthcare

The First NHS: How John Tomley’s Work Led to Modern...

Author: Emma Snow
ISBN: 9781399038164
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Incredibly timely for the 75th Anniversary of the NHS in 2023, this book provides a fascinating insight into the...  Read More >>

A History of Plant Medicine: Western Herbal Medicine from the Ancient Greeks to the Modern Day

A History of Plant Medicine: Western Herbal Medicine...

Author: Christina Stapley
ISBN: 9781801520416
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A comprehensive guide detailing the story of healing with herbs from pre-history to modern times.  Read More >>

Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982

Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia,...

Author: Rustam Alexander
ISBN: 9783031458699
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient...

Author: Colin Webster
ISBN: 9780226828770
Format: Hardback
$74.95

The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations...  Read More >>

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022: Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022: Lessons for the Age...

Author: Kah Seng Loh (Southeast Asian Studies on Sustainable Humanosphere, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) ,  Li Yang Hsu
ISBN: 9781032469621
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Singapore has faced many pandemics over the centuries, from smallpox and cholera to influenza and novel coronaviruses....  Read More >>

Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics

Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics...

Author: Erika Dyck ,  Chris Elcock
ISBN: 9780262546935
Format: Paperback
$100.00

"""Explores the diverse history of psychedelics as they appealed to a post-war generation of thinkers, who drew...  Read More >>

Die Sterile Kammer 13

Die Sterile Kammer 13

Author: L'Enfant Noir
ISBN: 9798868288357
Format: Paperback
$59.93

GUT Team 555 ich bitte euch, die teufelchen-zwillinge nummer 2 Sie sind wirklich zu eifersüchtig. Onkel 1 man und...  Read More >>

Ophthalmologia: Optica Et VISIO in Nummis

Ophthalmologia: Optica Et VISIO in Nummis

Author: Jay M Galst ,  Peter Van Alfen
ISBN: 9780897223232
Format: Hardback
$924.00

Published jointly by J.-P. Wayenborgh Verlag and the ANS, Ophthalmologia, Optica et Viso in Nummis catalogues roughly...  Read More >>

Die Sterile Kammer 10

Die Sterile Kammer 10

Author: L'Enfant Noir
ISBN: 9798868193842
Format: Paperback
$31.68

werden wir euch überlassen Wir sehen uns morgen wieder.  Read More >>

Die Sterile Kammer 12

Die Sterile Kammer 12

Author: L'Enfant Noir
ISBN: 9798868199110
Format: Paperback
$46.09

Wir versuchen, andere Teams zu bilden, um euch bei  Read More >>

Galen on the Pulses: Medico-historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation

Galen on the Pulses: Medico-historical Analysis, Textual...

Author: Ian Hugh Johnston ,  Niki Papavramidou
ISBN: 9783110611618
Format: Hardback
$222.99

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Die Sterile Kammer 8

Die Sterile Kammer 8

Author: L'Enfant Noir
ISBN: 9798867875534
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Tai Herbalism

Tai Herbalism

Author: Susan Conway
ISBN: 9786162152054
Format: Paperback
$66.00

"Around the globe, an age-old truth persists: ""To annihilate my culture and identity, you must first destroy my...  Read More >>

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