History of medicine books

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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed...

Author: Susannah Cahalan
ISBN: 9781432878917
Format: Hardback
$87.09

From one of America's most courageous young journalists (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating...  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: 9782406096290
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses...

Author: Sonia Shah
ISBN: 9781250793249
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture

Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain:...

Author: Evelleen Richards
ISBN: 9781138607712
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the...

Author: Joseph M. Gabriel
ISBN: 9780226710228
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book combines legal, medical, and business history to offer a sweeping...  Read More >>

Freud: IX. Vienna, Berggasse 19 – The Origin of Psychoanalysis

Freud: IX. Vienna, Berggasse 19 – The Origin of Psychoanalysis...

Author: Monika Pessler ,  Daniela Finzl
ISBN: 9783775747356
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Sigmund Freud himself was certainly aware of the significance of psychoanalysis when he founded it: he saw it on...  Read More >>

From Aspirin to Viagra: Stories of the Drugs that Changed the World

From Aspirin to Viagra: Stories of the Drugs that Changed...

Author: Vladimir Marko
ISBN: 9783030442859
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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An African American Philosophy of Medicine

An African American Philosophy of Medicine

Author: Msc Newsome, MD
ISBN: 9781646106769
Format: Hardback
$60.72

An African American Philosophy of Medicine examines race, medical knowledge, and history in the United States. The...  Read More >>

The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine: The History of the Department of Pathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (1888-2018)

The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine: The History...

Author: Ernest Cutz ,  David Wencer
ISBN: 9781525561337
Format: Paperback
$37.49

Within the world of medicine, the work the pathologist does is integral to positive patient outcomes, but it is...  Read More >>

The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine: The History of the Department of Pathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (1888-2018)

The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine: The History...

Author: Ernest Cutz ,  David Wencer
ISBN: 9781525561320
Format: Hardback
$50.43

Within the world of medicine, the work the pathologist does is integral to positive patient outcomes, but it is...  Read More >>

On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers

On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers...

Author: Kate Marsden
ISBN: 9783337613662
Format: Paperback
$65.98

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Cassell Publishing Company...  Read More >>

Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early...

Author: Frederick W Gibbs
ISBN: 9780367588267
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval...  Read More >>

Influenza

Influenza

Author: Jeremy Brown
ISBN: 9789579054638
Format: Paperback
$104.54

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Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates...

Author: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos ,  Sophia Xenophontos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
ISBN: 9780367593209
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into...  Read More >>

Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua

Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara...

Author: Sarah R. Kyle
ISBN: 9780367879846
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Francesco Novello, the last prince of Padua’s edition of Serapion the Younger’s herbal, known as the Carrara Herbal...  Read More >>

Tertullian and the Unborn Child: Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective

Tertullian and the Unborn Child: Christian and Pagan...

Author: Julian Barr
ISBN: 9780367595340
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue vigorously against abortion. This book is the...  Read More >>

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity...

Author: Steven M. Oberhelman
ISBN: 9780367601652
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern...  Read More >>

Hippocratic Oratory: The Poetics of Early Greek Medical Prose

Hippocratic Oratory: The Poetics of Early Greek Medical...

Author: James Cross
ISBN: 9780367594107
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Should A Doctor Tell?: The Evolution of Medical Confidentiality in Britain

Should A Doctor Tell?: The Evolution of Medical Confidentiality...

Author: Angus H. Ferguson
ISBN: 9780367601102
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, with areas currently under...  Read More >>

Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge

Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and...

Author: Martin Lengwiler (University of Basel, Switzerland) ,  Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
ISBN: 9780367584719
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and...  Read More >>

Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving: Time to Feel

Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving: Time to Feel...

Author: Rebecca E. Olson
ISBN: 9780367598907
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires

Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the...

Author: Vera Blinn Reber
ISBN: 9780367585600
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This monograph examines tuberculosis comparatively and globally. It discusses patient perspectives and public responses...  Read More >>

Medicine and Conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy

Medicine and Conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its...

Author: Sebastian Browne (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9780367587642
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical...  Read More >>

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and...

Author: Joshua R. Eyler
ISBN: 9780367602734
Format: Paperback
$83.99

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment...

Author: Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University, USA) ,  Molly Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, USA)
ISBN: 9780367581701
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores the various...  Read More >>

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