History of medicine books

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Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the Oldest Manuscript of His'pantegni'

Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and...

Author: Erik Kwakkel ,  Francis Newton
ISBN: 9782503579214
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Fleeing his North-African homeland for Italy, Constantine the African joined the abbey of Monte Cassino south of...  Read More >>

The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen

The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists...

Author: Warwick Anderson (Professorial Research Fellow, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781421433608
Format: Paperback
$80.99

This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland;...  Read More >>

The History of Medications for Women: Materia Medica Woman

The History of Medications for Women: Materia Medica...

Author: M.J. O'Dowd
ISBN: 9780367397562
Format: Paperback
$126.00

The first work of its kind, this book presents an illustrated history of medications for women in all the major...  Read More >>

History of the Body

History of the Body

Author: Willemijn Ruberg
ISBN: 9781352007718
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes...  Read More >>

A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity...

Author: Bill Hughes
ISBN: 9780367174200
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled...  Read More >>

Dogs in Health Care: Pioneering Animal-Human Partnerships

Dogs in Health Care: Pioneering Animal-Human Partnerships...

Author: Jill Lenk Schilp ,  Brian Patrick Duggan
ISBN: 9781476673943
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Over the years, certain dogs have improved and advanced the field of health care in myriad ways. In this book, the...  Read More >>

A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity...

Author: Bill Hughes
ISBN: 9780367174187
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History

Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History

Author: Claire Laurent
ISBN: 9781473896611
Format: Paperback
$39.99

From leeches to lice, bowels to bedpans, nurses relate their experiences of hospital wards in the 20th century....  Read More >>

Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle

Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration...

Author: Bernard Lightman
ISBN: 9780822945741
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Evaluating the Complexity Principle for Scholarship in the History of Science and Religion Evaluating the Complexity...  Read More >>

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Author: Michael Page ,  Jack Hartnell
ISBN: 9781665121118
Format: Audio
$65.97

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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Author: Michael Page ,  Jack Hartnell
ISBN: 9781665121101
Format: Audio
$65.97

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A History of Women in Medicine: Cunning Women, Physicians, Witches

A History of Women in Medicine: Cunning Women, Physicians,...

Author: Sinead Spearing
ISBN: 9781526751690
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In this pioneering work, Sinead Spearing draws on current archeological evidence, literature, folklore, case studies...  Read More >>

Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Bovine...

Author: Angela Cassidy
ISBN: 9783030191856
Format: Hardback
$51.75

This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to...  Read More >>

Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust

Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust

Author: Lenore Layman ,  Gail Philips
ISBN: 9781925835618
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond...

Author: Steven J. Taylor ,  Alice Brumby
ISBN: 9783030272746
Format: Hardback
$51.75

This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the...  Read More >>

Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic Fantasies

Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic Fantasies...

Author: Fiona Subotsky
ISBN: 9781911623298
Format: Paperback
$75.01

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Just the Tonic: a History of Tonic Water

Just the Tonic: a History of Tonic Water

Author: Kim Walker ,  Mark Nesbitt
ISBN: 9781842466896
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the major disease malaria,...  Read More >>

"NS-""Rassenhygiene"" im Raum Trier": Zwangssterilisationen und Patientenmorde im ehemaligen Regierungsbezirk Trier 1933--1945

"NS-""Rassenhygiene"" im Raum Trier": Zwangssterilisationen...

Author: Matthias Klein
ISBN: 9783412516475
Format: Hardback
$124.17

Die Erforschung von Zwangssterilisationen und Patientenmorden wahrend der NS-Zeit ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten...  Read More >>

Konrad Lang und die Ernährungswissenschaften in der frühen Bundesrepublik (1945--1970)

Konrad Lang und die Ernährungswissenschaften in der...

Author: Andre Cloppenburg
ISBN: 9783847110569
Format: Hardback
$87.95

Deutsche Ernährungswissenschaftler konnten nach 1945 zumeist nahtlos an ihre Forschungen aus dem Dritten Reich anknüpfen....  Read More >>

The Evolution of Medical Genetics: A British Perspective

The Evolution of Medical Genetics: A British Perspective...

Author: Peter Harper (University Research Professor (Emeritus) in Human Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
ISBN: 9780367178093
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This informative new book presents an accessible account of the development of medical genetics over the past 70...  Read More >>

The Pursuit of Parenthood: Reproductive Technology from Test-Tube Babies to Uterus Transplants

The Pursuit of Parenthood: Reproductive Technology from...

Author: Margaret Marsh (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) ,  Wanda Ronner
ISBN: 9781421429847
Format: Hardback
$64.99

"Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to...  Read More >>

Selected Papers on the History of Medicine and Healthcare (2014)

Selected Papers on the History of Medicine and Healthcare...

Author: William J. Pratt ,  Frank W. Stahnisch
ISBN: 9781527539099
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This volume continues the Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days series which publishes the work of...  Read More >>

The Hidden Affliction: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility in History

The Hidden Affliction: Sexually Transmitted Infections...

Author: Simon Szreter ,  Adrien Minard
ISBN: 9781580469616
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the ""historic"" STIs--gonorrhea,...  Read More >>

The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine

The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based...

Author: Ariane Hanemaayer
ISBN: 9780774862073
Format: Hardback
$191.48

The aims of evidence-based medicine cannot be reconciled with its outcomes, yet this impossible practice persists...  Read More >>

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