History of medicine books

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Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize

Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the...

Author: Nils Hansson ,  Thorsten Halling
ISBN: 9789004393974
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This book investigates the history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The anthology will help the reader...  Read More >>

The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America

The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America

Author: Norman Gevitz (Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, AT Still University (ATSU))
ISBN: 9781421429601
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Gevitz chronicles the development of osteopathy from the 19th century to the present.  Read More >>

Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain,...

Author: Alex Mold ,  Peder Clark
ISBN: 9783030186845
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of...  Read More >>

Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era

Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to...

Author: Livio Pestilli
ISBN: 9780367200268
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This study evinces that in opposition to classical artists, who manifested a lack of interest in the subject of...  Read More >>

Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte 37 (2019)

Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte 37 (2019)

Author: Robert Jutte
ISBN: 9783515124171
Format: Paperback
$190.08

Astrid Stolzle vergleicht das DRK und die Kaiserswerther Diakonie als Akteure in der Kriegskrankenpflege wahrend...  Read More >>

Data Science for Wind Energy

Data Science for Wind Energy

Author: Yu Ding (Texas A&M University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138590526
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This book shows how data science methods can improve decision making for wind energy applications. A broad set of...  Read More >>

Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives

Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth:...

Author: Nadia von Benzon ,  Catherine Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781138608290
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Contributions present international narratives from a broad range of contexts and locales, demonstrating the ways...  Read More >>

Life, Purpose, and Vision: A Fiftieth Anniversary History of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Life, Purpose, and Vision: A Fiftieth Anniversary History...

Author: Margaret Vugrin ,  Thomas McGovern
ISBN: 9781682830437
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Commemorates the fifty-year anniversary of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and celebrates the...  Read More >>

Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis

Fat in the Fifties: America's First Obesity Crisis

Author: Nicolas Rasmussen (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales)
ISBN: 9781421428710
Format: Hardback
$90.99

Fat in the Fifties is required reading for public health practitioners and researchers, physicians, historians of...  Read More >>

Abortion across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services

Abortion across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access...

Author: Christabelle Sethna (Associate Professor, University of Ottawa) ,  Gayle Davis (Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781421427294
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Contributors: Barbara Baird, Niklas Barke, Anna Bogic, Hayley Brown, Lori A. Brown, Cathrine Chambers, Ewelina Ciaputa,...  Read More >>

Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide

Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide...

Author: James Essinger ,  Sandra Koutzenko
ISBN: 9780750991926
Format: Electronic book text
$25.82

The story of the one woman who, against all odds, stopped Thalidomide in its tracks because it poisoned a nation...  Read More >>

Discovery in Haste: English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796

Discovery in Haste: English Medical Dictionaries and...

Author: Roderick McConchie
ISBN: 9783110635782
Format: Hardback
$205.83

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New Order of Medicine, A: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg

New Order of Medicine, A: The Rise of Physicians in...

Author: Hannah Murphy
ISBN: 9780822945604
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Konzeptgeschichten: Zur Marburger Psychiatrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Konzeptgeschichten: Zur Marburger Psychiatrie im 19....

Author: Philipp Rauh ,  Sascha Topp
ISBN: 9783847109952
Format: Hardback
$119.00

Die Autoren zeichnen im vorliegenden Band in einem Bogen von 130 Jahren die Entwicklungsgeschichte von der ersten...  Read More >>

Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England

Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern...

Author: Jennifer Evans (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9780861933501
Format: Paperback
$64.66

An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.  Read More >>

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism,...

Author: Melissa Kravetz
ISBN: 9781442629646
Format: Hardback
$135.00

This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain...  Read More >>

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

Author: Lucy Inglis
ISBN: 9781447286110
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began....  Read More >>

Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England

Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation...

Author: Julie Orlemanski
ISBN: 9780812250909
Format: Hardback
$197.87

In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's...  Read More >>

Chirurgenlexikon: 2000 Persönlichkeiten aus der Geschichte der Chirurgie

Chirurgenlexikon: 2000 Persönlichkeiten aus der Geschichte...

Author: Christoph Weißer
ISBN: 9783662592373
Format: Hardback
$343.17

In knappen, präzisen Kurzbiographien sind Lebensdaten, Werdegang, Wirken und Bedeutung von 2000 Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century...

Author: Stacy Horn
ISBN: 9781616209353
Format: Paperback
$29.99

"""Enthralling; it is well worth the trip. --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration...  Read More >>

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts

Author: Feng Shengli ,  Zhuang Huibing
ISBN: 9781138578913
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic

Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic

Author: Matt McCarthy (Physician)
ISBN: 9781911617433
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Drug-resistant bacteria — known as superbugs — are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor,...  Read More >>

Globalisation Of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins Of Immunity For Smallpox In The 18th Century

Globalisation Of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins...

Author: Alicia Grant (Royal Society Of Medicine, Uk)
ISBN: 9781786345844
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Devastating epidemics of untreatable smallpox caused not only deaths but dire disfigurements of face and body as...  Read More >>

China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

Author: David Luesink (Contributor) ,  Professor Emeritus William H. Schneider (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580469425
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not...  Read More >>

Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine: Practitioners, Collectors and Contexts

Early Modern Ireland and the World of Medicine: Practitioners,...

Author: John Cunningham
ISBN: 9781526138156
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book contains substantial new historical research on medicine in early modern Ireland. Its twelve chapters...  Read More >>

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