History of medicine books

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Leadership in Anaesthesia: Five Pioneers of the Deadly Quest for Surgical Insensibility

Leadership in Anaesthesia: Five Pioneers of the Deadly...

Author: Berend Mets
ISBN: 9781527555969
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present...

Author: Eric Jason Martin ,  Frank M Snowden
ISBN: 9781665197083
Format: Audio
$79.17

In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical...  Read More >>

A Middle English Version of the 'Circa Instans': Edited from Cambridge, Cul, MS Ee.1.13

A Middle English Version of the 'Circa Instans': Edited...

Author: Edurne Garrido-Anes
ISBN: 9783825347666
Format: Paperback
$232.32

Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13 contains a Middle English version of the 'Liber de Simplici Medicina' ('Circa Instans'),...  Read More >>

Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte 38 (2020): Ungleiche Gesundheitschancen - Trotz Offener Gesellschaften (1949-2018)

Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte 38 (2020): Ungleiche...

Author: Robert Jutte
ISBN: 9783515128001
Format: Paperback
$190.08

"Am Beispiel von Aufklarungskampagnen zeigen Stefan Offermann und Pierre Pfutsch, wie Ubergewicht zu Exklusionsprozessen...  Read More >>

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's...

Author: Joseph Jebelli
ISBN: 9780316360760
Format: Paperback
$44.85

For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of...  Read More >>

Desecration

Desecration

Author: J F Penn
ISBN: 9781913321277
Format: Hardback
$38.79

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Malattie E Pandemie Nellantica Roma: Cicerone, Plinio, Svetonio, Catone, Tacito, Marziale, Plauto, Seneca Et Alii

Malattie E Pandemie Nellantica Roma: Cicerone, Plinio,...

Author: Claudia Claudia Cerchiai Manodori Sagredo
ISBN: 9788891320643
Format: Paperback
$448.80

This volume explores the theme of diseases and pandemics from the perspective of the authors from classical antiquity....  Read More >>

Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa

Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service...

Author: Anna Crozier (University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9781350172708
Format: Paperback
$66.99

A study based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. This book shows...  Read More >>

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures:...

Author: Ulrike Steinert (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.)
ISBN: 9781138571129
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical illness concepts in cross-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy

Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest...

Author: Danielle Giffort
ISBN: 9781517906726
Format: Paperback
$59.21

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Remarks on Some of the Opinions of the Late Mr. John Hunter: respecting the venereal disease; in a letter to Jeseph Adams

Remarks on Some of the Opinions of the Late Mr. John...

Author: Henry Clutterbuck
ISBN: 9783337956653
Format: Paperback
$41.14

Remarks on Some of the Opinions of the Late Mr. John Hunter - respecting the venereal disease; in a letter to Jeseph...  Read More >>

Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy

Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest...

Author: Danielle Giffort
ISBN: 9781517906719
Format: Hardback
$236.84

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Educational Standards for Nurses: With Other Addresses on Nursing Subjects

Educational Standards for Nurses: With Other Addresses...

Author: Isabel Hampton Robb
ISBN: 9781138391222
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1907, this title was one of several influential textbooks on nursing written by Isabel Hampton...  Read More >>

"""Why I Became an Occupational Physician"" and Other Occupational Health Stories"

"""Why I Became an Occupational Physician"" and Other...

Author: John Hobson (Honorary Lecturer in Population Health, School of Health Sciences, Manchester, UK) ,  The Society of Occupational Medicine
ISBN: 9780198862543
Format: Paperback
$93.95

This volume brings together the fascinating and diverse 'filler' articles published in the journal Occupational...  Read More >>

Pregnancy, Delivery, Childbirth: A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

Pregnancy, Delivery, Childbirth: A Gender and Cultural...

Author: Nadia Filippini ,  Clelia Boscolo
ISBN: 9780367211080
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the Twentieth...  Read More >>

Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century

Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of...

Author: Zachary Dorner
ISBN: 9780226706801
Format: Hardback
$89.95

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English...  Read More >>

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human...

Author: Theodore M. Porter
ISBN: 9780691203232
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early...  Read More >>

Tables for the Easy Valuating of Estates

Tables for the Easy Valuating of Estates

Author: Bernard Scale
ISBN: 9783337952594
Format: Paperback
$51.49

Tables for the Easy Valuating of Estates is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1771....  Read More >>

Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century: History, Politics and Safe Practice in England

Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century: History,...

Author: Julia Allison
ISBN: 9780367820244
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete...  Read More >>

Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965: Ideas and Improvisations

Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital...

Author: Tizian Zumthurm
ISBN: 9789004402676
Format: Hardback
$411.84

Analyzing daily therapeutic routines, the book takes the praxis turn to colonial medicine. Despite the extraordinary...  Read More >>

Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century: History, Politics and Safe Practice in England

Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century: History,...

Author: Julia Allison
ISBN: 9780367341367
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete...  Read More >>

Le Diagnostic Differentiel Au Moyen Age: Distinguer Les Maladies d'Apparence Voisine

Le Diagnostic Differentiel Au Moyen Age: Distinguer...

Author: Laetitia Loviconi
ISBN: 9782406096283
Format: Paperback
$176.88

This book analyses the place, methods, sources and issues of the differential diagnosis at the end of the Middle...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Nutritional Medicine: Where Darwin Meets Hippocrates

An Introduction to Nutritional Medicine: Where Darwin...

Author: John Nichols
ISBN: 9781527553620
Format: Hardback
$152.64

This book imagines a meeting between Charles Darwin and Hippocrates, the ancient Greek father of medicine, supposing...  Read More >>

Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families

Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and...

Author: Emily K. Abel
ISBN: 9780813593920
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning...  Read More >>

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