History of medicine books

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Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples

Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's...

Author: Peter Dowling
ISBN: 9781922464460
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Heart Rhythm Disorders: History, Mechanisms, and Management Perspectives

Heart Rhythm Disorders: History, Mechanisms, and Management...

Author: J. Anthony Gomes
ISBN: 9783030450687
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This engaging book covers a multitude of topics related to heart rhythm disorders (HRDs) and uniquely familiarizes...  Read More >>

Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan

Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan

Author: C. Pierce Salguero ,  Andrew Macomber
ISBN: 9780824889845
Format: Paperback
$79.20

In this diverse and compelling collection, an international group of scholars analyses the historical connections...  Read More >>

Case Studies in Society, Religion, and Bioethics

Case Studies in Society, Religion, and Bioethics

Author: Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MSSA ,  Madison Carithers
ISBN: 9783030441524
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book explores, through case studies, the interplay between religion, culture, government, and politics in diverse...  Read More >>

Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940: African Experiences in a Contested Space

Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique,...

Author: Francis Dube
ISBN: 9783030475376
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive...  Read More >>

Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department

Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical...

Author: Guy R. Hasegawa
ISBN: 9780809338290
Format: Paperback
$45.10

Describes the organisation and management of the Confederate army's medical department. Guy Hasegawa investigates...  Read More >>

William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds: The Anatomist and the Fine Arts

William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds:...

Author: Helen McCormack
ISBN: 9781032096186
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In a departure from conventional biographies, this book concentrates on Hunter’s position at the very centre of...  Read More >>

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Author: Vivienne Lo ,  Chris Berry (Kings College, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032085241
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Chinese Film and the Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical...  Read More >>

Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

Author: Michael Stolberg
ISBN: 9781032098340
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern...  Read More >>

Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe

Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe

Author: Petteri Pietikäinen ,  Jesper Kragh
ISBN: 9781032088143
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century....  Read More >>

From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945

From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi...

Author: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032096933
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the essays in this...  Read More >>

An Autobibliography by John Caius

An Autobibliography by John Caius

Author: Vivian Nutton
ISBN: 9781032095295
Format: Paperback
$83.99

John Caius (1510-1573) was an English scholar with an international reputation as a naturalist, historian and medical...  Read More >>

Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare

Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology...

Author: D?írio de Oliveira Rodrigues
ISBN: 9781799873648
Format: Paperback
$321.20

Provides theoretical frameworks on the political and economic impact of blockchain technology, which is thought...  Read More >>

The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty

The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty...

Author: Katelynn Robinson
ISBN: 9781032090092
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Odors, including those of incense, spices, cooking, and refuse, were both ubiquitous and meaningful in central and...  Read More >>

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018:...

Author: Kah Seng Loh (Southeast Asian Studies on Sustainable Humanosphere, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) ,  Li Yang Hsu
ISBN: 9781032084435
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book...  Read More >>

The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections: Hands On, Hands Off

The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections:...

Author: Hieke Huistra
ISBN: 9781032094588
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement

Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement

Author: Karin Sellberg ,  Lena Wånggren
ISBN: 9781032098326
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Presenting a multi- and interdisciplinary consideration of current research on the cultural relationship to living...  Read More >>

Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A.

Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A.

Author: William H. Schaberg
ISBN: 9781949481556
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Presents the results of eleven years of in-depth research into the formative years of AA. Granted unprecedented...  Read More >>

Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941: Protecting the Collective

Health and Welfare in St. Petersburg, 1900–1941: Protecting...

Author: Christopher Williams (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032095226
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Using declassified archival material and health propaganda, Williams argues that the Bolsheviks, tsarist and Soviet...  Read More >>

The Mechanical Patient: Finding a More Human Model of Health

The Mechanical Patient: Finding a More Human Model of...

Author: Sholom Glouberman
ISBN: 9781032095318
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book names the problem and prepares us to respond to the exaggerated place of the chemical mechanical model...  Read More >>

Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe

Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early...

Author: J. Andrew Mendelsohn ,  Annemarie Kinzelbach
ISBN: 9781032090580
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Communities across Europe for eight centuries contracted with doctors, who provided citizen care, helped govern,...  Read More >>

A Patient's History of Medicine

A Patient's History of Medicine

Author: Sholom Glouberman
ISBN: 9781771612685
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction, Third Edition

History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction,...

Author: Jacalyn Duffin
ISBN: 9781487509170
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent...  Read More >>

Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China

Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China...

Author: Yan Liu
ISBN: 9780295748993
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites....  Read More >>

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