History of medicine books

43416 books were found.

A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine

A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses...

Author: Robin Wolfe Scheffler
ISBN: 9780226628370
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer...  Read More >>

Die Josephs - Akademie im Wiener Josephinum: Die medizinisch-chirurgische Militirakademie im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik 1785-1874

Die Josephs - Akademie im Wiener Josephinum: Die medizinisch-chirurgische...

Author: Brigitte Lohff
ISBN: 9783205232766
Format: Hardback
$258.72

"Unter Joseph II. wurde 1785 das Josephinum eröffnet und beheimatete die medizinisch-chirurgische Josephs-Akademie,...  Read More >>

A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine

A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses...

Author: Robin Wolfe Scheffler
ISBN: 9780226458892
Format: Hardback
$213.95

Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer...  Read More >>

Exchange Rates and Merchandise Trade in Liberalised India

Exchange Rates and Merchandise Trade in Liberalised...

Author: Suranjali Tandon (Assistant Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9781138585201
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the linkages between exchange rates and India’s merchandise trade since the 1990s. It looks at...  Read More >>

Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine

Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories...

Author: Helen Hills ,  Penelope Gouk
ISBN: 9781138378711
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts...  Read More >>

Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany: Treatments of the Past

Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany:...

Author: Markus Wahl
ISBN: 9780367138707
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy

Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug...

Author: John Parascandola
ISBN: 9781138375840
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine: Historical and Social Science Perspectives

Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine:...

Author: Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780367341404
Format: Paperback
$83.99

As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and failings in service provision, past complaining is a vital antidote...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery

Author: Thomas Schlich
ISBN: 9781349957774
Format: Paperback
$329.00

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A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species, at All Ages

A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species,...

Author: William Black
ISBN: 9781078402798
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping...  Read More >>

On Ancient Medicine

On Ancient Medicine

Author: Francis Adams ,  D P Curtin
ISBN: 9781078488273
Format: Paperback
$15.81

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Child Development Mediated by Trauma: The Dark Side of International Adoption

Child Development Mediated by Trauma: The Dark Side...

Author: Boris Gindis
ISBN: 9781138572034
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Based on data obtained through the study of children adopted into Western families from overseas orphanages, this...  Read More >>

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book...

Author: Sandeep Jauhar
ISBN: 9781786075734
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A doctor’s inspiring obsession with the heart, combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and...  Read More >>

Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497-1558)

Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance:...

Author: Linda Deer Richardson ,  Benjamin Goldberg
ISBN: 9783319887579
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions:...  Read More >>

No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me: One Man’s Quest for a Leprosy-Free World

No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me: One Man’s Quest...

Author: Yohei Sasakawa ,  Rei Muroji
ISBN: 9781787381377
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure-a disfiguring...  Read More >>

Introduction � l'�tude de la M�decine Exp�rimentale

Introduction � l'�tude de la M�decine Exp�rimentale...

Author: Bernard-C
ISBN: 9782329313825
Format: Paperback
$33.64

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R�ponse � Une Lettre de M. Le Professeur Van't Hoff: Relative � La Composition Et Aux Propri�t�s Alimentaires Et Hygi�niques Du Cacao Van Houten

R�ponse � Une Lettre de M. Le Professeur Van't Hoff:...

Author: Gautier-A
ISBN: 9782329313870
Format: Paperback
$25.88

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Lettre � Un Ami Sur Les Op�rations Du Caff�

Lettre � Un Ami Sur Les Op�rations Du Caff�

Author: Knoll-J C G
ISBN: 9782329314143
Format: Paperback
$25.88

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Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India: A Study of Social Justice, Identity and Agency in Assam

Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India: A Study of Social...

Author: Saba Hussain (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781138606449
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Based on empirical research in India, this book presents a post-colonial feminist analysis of subjectivities available...  Read More >>

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War...

Author: David Durnin
ISBN: 9783030179618
Format: Paperback
$158.37

The study explores the factors that encouraged Ireland's medical personnel to join the British Army medical services...  Read More >>

Westborough State Hospital

Westborough State Hospital

Author: Katherine Anderson ,  Mimi Baird
ISBN: 9781540239525
Format: Hardback
$84.45

History of Westborough State Hospital, Westborough, Massachusetts, opened in 1884, and closed in 2010.  Read More >>

The Battle for Health: A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930–51

The Battle for Health: A Political History of the Socialist...

Author: John Stewart
ISBN: 9781138350410
Format: Hardback
$221.00

First published in 1999, this is the first scholarly study of the Socialist Medical Association (SMA), an organisation...  Read More >>

Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials

Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses...

Author: Christos Lynteris ,  Nicholas H A Evans
ISBN: 9783319874319
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses...  Read More >>

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