History of medicine books

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The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's Besieged Legions from Bataan to Khe Sanh

The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's Besieged...

Author: Thomas S Helling
ISBN: 9781594164187
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The inspiring story of the men and women who risked their lives alongside the soldiers fighting some of the most...  Read More >>

Les causeries du docteur

Les causeries du docteur

Author: D�sir� Joseph Joulin
ISBN: 9789357951685
Format: Paperback
$57.24

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Deadly Encounters: How Infectious Disease Helped Shape Australia

Deadly Encounters: How Infectious Disease Helped Shape...

Author: Peter Curson
ISBN: 9781914390258
Format: Paperback
$76.53

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines medical demography, public health history and geography...  Read More >>

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria...

Author: Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9780063273900
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography...  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 >>

Exercise, Respiratory and Environmental Physiology: A Tribute from the School of Milano

Exercise, Respiratory and Environmental Physiology:...

Author: Guido Ferretti
ISBN: 9783031191992
Format: Paperback
$498.96

This book sheds new light on the history of exercise physiology and how it essentially grew, thanks to the work...  Read More >>

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 >>

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780367557225
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources...  Read More >>

Nursing, Policy and Politics in Twentieth-century Chile: Reforming Health, 1920s-1990s

Nursing, Policy and Politics in Twentieth-century Chile:...

Author: Markus Thulin ,  Ricardo A. Ayala
ISBN: 9783030908379
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with nurses and governmental representatives, this book explores...  Read More >>

Modern Healthcare Heroes: The Legacy of the Student National Medical Association

Modern Healthcare Heroes: The Legacy of the Student...

Author: Jeffrey E Sterling, MD MPH
ISBN: 9798350942767
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Since 1964, the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) has championed recruitment, retention, and graduation...  Read More >>

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900: New Approaches to Recipe Literature

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900:...

Author: Claire Burridge
ISBN: 9789004466166
Format: Hardback
$475.20

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice casts fresh light the practicality and applicability of medical knowledge...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916237
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria...

Author: Caroline Crampton ,  Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9798212902144
Format: Audio
$110.85

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography...  Read More >>

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria...

Author: Caroline Crampton ,  Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9798212902137
Format: Audio
$131.97

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography...  Read More >>

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox...

Author: Eugene M Helveston ,  Kyle Snyder
ISBN: 9798874764371
Format: Audio
$105.57

"In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes...  Read More >>

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox...

Author: Eugene M Helveston ,  Kyle Snyder
ISBN: 9798874764388
Format: Audio
$121.31

"In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes...  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 >>

Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean

Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and...

Author: Justin K. Stearns ,  Dmitrii Galcin
ISBN: 9798887195582
Format: Hardback
$79.20

ENGHow did pre-modern scholars conceive of contagion and the transmissibility of disease in general? Infectious...  Read More >>

Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science: Botanical and Medical Literature of Nineteenth-century Bengal

Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of...

Author: Nupur DasGupta
ISBN: 9789356874770
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science traces the medical and botanical reconnaissance of indigenous...  Read More >>

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